This issue of the TOPkit Digest issue is brought to you by Dr. Barbara Ann D'Anna (dannaba@delhi.edu), DSL, RN, MSN, CNOR(E), RNFA, Professor of Nursing, and Dr. Beth Boyd (boydbb@delhi.edu), DNP, MSN, RN, CNE, Associate Professor of Nursing. Both are course coordinators and course designers for Nursing Leadership courses at SUNY-Delhi. They discuss "Replacing traditional textbooks with technology resources through Trebian’s model".
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Video Tip - Why is Technology Important in Education?
- Start of Semester TOPkit Resources - Faculty Development Decision Guide, Checklist & Rubrics, Sources of Data on Your Campus
- Top Tips - Replace Traditional Textbooks with Technology Resources
- From the Community - Best Practices for Video in Online Learning
- Top Community Topics
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Why is Technology Important in Education? |
Traditional Pedagogy Can Be Isolating
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The video, "Why is Technology Important in Education?", simplifies the learning opportunities available through technology. For example, students’ opportunities for communication and collaboration are expanded by technology replacing traditional pedagogy in educational settings. Traditional pedagogy can isolate students with textbook learning by reducing interactive learning experiences.
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Start of Semester TOPkit Resources |
Fall is around the corner and it’s time for us to prepare and support our online faculty. Check out these TOPkit resources to make it happen:
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Replace Traditional Textbooks with Technology Resources |
Trebian’s Model – A Student-Centered Approach |
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The popularity of textbooks is starting to wane in favor of social media platforms (Lynch, 2020). This presents an opportunity to make a pronounced pedagogical shift that places multimedia content as the preferred choice over textbooks, while maintaining substantive content rigor and controlling costs. Trebian's model, a student-centered approach can be used as a framework for developing a technology-based solution to advance learning in the online environment (Lynch, 2020; Trebian, 2019).
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- Seek student input on technology-based resources. Including students in the decision-making process emphasizes that they are at the center of and responsible for their own learning. This requires their collaboration and allows them a voice in why, what, and how learning experiences take shape.
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Determine what you need the technology to do. Start with a technology needs assessment that identifies the technological requirements before exploring the plethora of options available. Technology is innovative and exciting but keep in mind that it must fit the way the institution works. What technology solution will work for your institution? It is important to identify who will use the technology, what they will use it for, and what they cannot use it for.
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Communicate how the technology is used and the value of the resource. Effective communication needs to be two-way, the transmission and interaction of facts, ideas, opinions, feelings, or attitudes as well as seeking feedback on the ideas from students and colleagues. This means allowing people to speak in meetings and listen in return. For example: Ask open-ended questions, listen actively, acknowledge different perspectives, and address any concerns or objections.
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Assess student success in the course and response to technology materials. Formative and summative feedback can be used by both students and faculty to guide their efforts and activities in subsequent courses.
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In our rapidly changing healthcare environment, it is difficult for expensive textbooks to have the latest information. Incorporating the weekly webinars provided the students with up-to-date information at a financial savings. The Lorman webinars provide real-time applications on various topics throughout the course. Providing these current webinars in an asynchronous environment, the students received an engaging learning experience. Incorporating expertise not only provides exceptional information but can optimize learning outcomes.
Replacing the course textbook with OnDemand webinars is a valuable way to provide students with current, updated information from experts in various fields. There are many educational methods evolving to meet the various challenges of teaching, to include allowing students to be active participants in their own learning. This pedagogical change resulted in reducing student materials costs and maintained course rigor with no cost to the college. In addition, student feedback included positive comments about the webinars in their answers to the reflective question throughout the course.
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Best Practices for Video in Online Learning |
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Building an Engaging Learning Environment |
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Videos add a breadth of engagement to the learning environment by conveying multifaceted content in an entertaining way to include visual demonstrations in place of concept models found in textbooks. Students with visual and auditory cognitive learning styles absorb content quickly when listening to and/or watching video presentations.
Principles and guidelines to foster student engagement, include:
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- Keep videos brief and targeted on learning goals.
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Use audio and visual elements to convey appropriate parts of an explanation; consider how to make these elements complementary rather than redundant.
- Use signaling to highlight important ideas or concepts.
- Use a conversational, enthusiastic style to enhance engagement.
- Embed videos in the context of active learning by using guiding questions, interactive elements, or associated homework assignments.
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Bren Bedford, MNM, SFC®, Web Project Analyst II, Center for Distributed Learning, University of Central Florida
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Florence Williams, Ph.D., Associate Instructional Designer, Center for Distributed Learning, University of Central Florida
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Generative AI may have been used to retrieve relevant research, generate suggested language, and enhance original content.
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