making small enrollment classes engaging: what do you do when you feel lonely? march 2014
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Making Small Enrollment Classes Engaging: What Do You Do When You Feel Lonely?
March 2014
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Today’s Presenters
Scott McLean, MAFacultyCollege of Management and Technology
Michael H. McGivern, PhDFaculty
College of Management and Technology
Kathleen Hargiss, PhDFacultyCollege of Management and Technology
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Instructors Play Several Roles
Serving as an instructor in a low enrollment class means wearing a lot of hats, or taking on lots of roles, to help make the experience informative, engaging, and effective!
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General Communication within Blackboard
• Difference in roles (instructor & student)• Class Café & Introduction section• Tone of Announcements• Group Project differences
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General Communication within Blackboard Class Café & Introduction Section
• Differences• Class Café-Introductions• Instructor Involvement
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General Communication within Blackboard Announcements
• Differences• Tone of Announcements• Small class focused
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General Communication within Blackboard Group Projects
• Difference• Smaller Groups• Instructor engagement• Workload increases
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Engaging Discussion Boards
In a low enrollment course we may need to make the extra effort to respond several times to each student.
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Planning Ahead for Discussions
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We may need to write sample peer reviews, critiques, provide resources, or take positions in role-playing exercises to help facilitate an engaging discussion.
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Facilitating Effective Discussions
• Provide clear expectations (Students need guide-lines with identified posting requirements)
• Topics should be interesting and relevant
• Use questions that have relevancy to the students immediate lives and into the future
• Provide two or three open-ended questions (Students need more stimulants in a low enrollment course in order to advance the weekly discussion)
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Why Interactive Discussions?
• Importance of active involvement:
• Tell me and I’ll listen. Show me and I’ll understand. Involve me and I’ll learn. (Teton Lakota Indians)
• I hear, and I forget. I see, and I remember. I do and I understand. (Asian proverb)
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Small Group Discussion
• Small group: 3-4 students (entire class)• Require students to rotate roles weekly• Roles: 1) Facilitator 2) Researcher 3) Summarizer 4) Questioner
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Small Group Discussion Student Feedback
• Students understood their own expectations
• Enjoyed the dialogues more
• Quality and in-depth in the discussion improved
• Created a higher-order critical thinking skills
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Technology Tools
• Tools that can make the discussions interactively exciting:
• Students provide links to relevant websites that relate to the topic
• Students volunteer each week to create a video as to the week’s thread topic compared to writing text. They visually
present the post in lieu of text.
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Day 1 Spark
Day 1 Spark – Find an interesting aspect of the given discussion prompt and develop a spark to stimulate curiosity!
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Day 2 Resource
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Find a relevant resource to share (and spark interest!)
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Day 3 Post
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Highlight parts of the directions from the given prompt and point out interesting questions, assumptions, or relationships.
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Day 4 Challenge: Optional!
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• Day 4 Challenge: Optional
• Challenge or provide a diverse perspective on a given prompt.
• When is groupthink good and can you provide an example?
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Day 5 Response Posts
Take an active role in response posts to main Day 3 Posts – asking questions, providing additional insights by integrating the reading resources, external sources from the field, or personal observations
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Day 6 Response Posts
Continue the discussion, use follow up questions, or build on previous quotes, observations, or examples
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Day 7 Wrap Up Post
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• Day 7 Wrap Up Post• Summarize discussion• Connect to key points in
given prompt• Connect to reading
resources• Preview next week• Highlight Day 7
Application
Questions/Comments
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Contact Information
• Scott McLean [email protected]
• Kathleen Hargiss [email protected]
• Michael McGivern [email protected]
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Making Small Enrollment Classes Engaging:What Do You Do When You Feel Lonely?
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