10 Onboarding Strategies for Online Learning |
Participate and share : Interactive session
Kate Grunow Dr. Jennifer Parker
Retool student success with best practice strategies, digital tools and free resources for onboarding students! Find out which platforms, protocols and products promote success in virtual learning at any age and confidently face challenges with 10 strategies. Experience backward design and 3Es to create digital experiences for teaching and learning.
Audience: | Coaches, Professional developers, Teachers |
Skill level: | Beginner |
Attendee devices: | Devices required |
Attendee device specification: | Smartphone: Android, iOS, Windows Laptop: Chromebook, Mac, PC Tablet: Android, iOS, Windows |
Topic: | Distance, online & blended learning |
ISTE Standards: | For Coaches: Learning Designer
Designer
Empowered Learner
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Related exhibitors: | Veracity Verification Solutions |
Know strategies, tools, and resources available for onboarding students.
Understand how to use technology to improve the orientation process and online experiences for students and participants
Make connections between backward design and the intended outcomes of a virtual experience.
Transfer the learning into a robust onboarding experience for students in an online environment.
Define (10 mins)
Open with an Inclusion Activity: What has been your biggest challenge in online learning?
Recognize the Elephant in the room
Open your Guided Notes/Create a Copy
Describe the Challenges of Professional Practice in Online Learning
Transitioning from other modalities of learning to online education can be difficult for many students.
Current orientation strategies may be ineffective, due to timing, format, and delivery.
Creating and organizing content for your online course in an online format can be challenging to navigate.
Knowing about the platforms, processes, protocols, and products available to help teachers improve digital age teaching and learning
Share Objectives of Session
Describe the end-goal: ideas, protocols, templates, digital tools and resources for immediate implementation in your own professional practice
Connect (30 mins)
What does the research say?
How can we put theory into practice?
Explore the 10 Onboarding Strategies for Students in Online Learning
1. Start with the End in Mind
Share examples, tools, resources, protocols, and models for this strategy
2. Assess Needs and Interests
Share examples, tools, resources, protocols, and models for this strategy
3. Be Inclusive
Share examples, tools, resources, protocols, and models for this strategy
4. Establish Protocols for Experiences
Share examples, tools, resources, protocols, and models for this strategy
5. Build Capacity
Share examples, tools, resources, protocols, and models for this strategy
6. Define the Process for Engaging Asynchronously and Synchronously
Share examples, tools, resources, protocols, and models for this strategy
7. Engage and Motivate
Share examples, tools, resources, protocols, and models for this strategy
8. Monitor Progress
Share examples, tools, resources, protocols, and models for this strategy
9. Define Mastery
Share examples, tools, resources, protocols, and models for this strategy
10. Evaluate Effectiveness
Share examples, tools, resources, protocols, and models for this strategy
Apply (20 mins)
Describe the principles of Backwards Design and how to build a successful experience
SOURCE: Wiggins, G., & McTighe, J. (2005). What is backward design. Understanding by design, 1, 7-19.
EXPERIENCE --
Share - Sample Onboarding Module for Professional Development / Adult Stakeholders
Share - Sample Onboarding Module for Students
DEBRIEF - Exit Ticket - What was your key takeaway from the session? Share your Guided Notes with a colleague and exchange ideas.
SOURCE: Wiggins, G., & McTighe, J. (2005). What is backward design. Understanding by design, 1, 7-19.
Tucker, C.R., Wycoff, T. & Green, J.T. (2016). Blended Learning in Action: A Practical Guide Toward Sustainable Change. Corwin Press. Chapter 8.
Berkling, K. (2015, May). Connecting peer reviews with students’ motivation-onboarding, motivation and blended learning. In International Conference on Computer Supported Education (Vol. 2, pp. 24-33). SciTePress.
Golubski, P. M. (2011). Virtually Onboarding and Supporting Adult Students in College Using Web 2.0 Technologies. In Encyclopedia of Information Communication Technologies and Adult Education Integration (pp. 1013-1030). IGI Global.
Jenkins, D., Lahr, H. E., Pellegrino, L., Kopko, E. M., & Griffin, S. (2020). Redesigning community college student onboarding through Guided Pathways.
Kate Grunow has been in education for over a decade as a K-12 digital media specialist and English teacher. She currently serves 130,000 students and over 10,000 teachers as an instructional technologist in metro Detroit. She is one of the co-creators of the 21 Things 4 project and a presenter at local, state, and national conferences on topics such as blended learning, free technology tools, learning management platforms, and digital age teaching and learning. She has been the Schoology implementation lead for Macomb ISD for the past two years training over 3,000 teachers on Schoology during Covid-19.
Dr. Parker is an Interactive Learning and School Data/Improvement Consultant with Macomb ISD; adjunct faculty member for Central Michigan University in the Master of Arts in Learning, Design, and Technology. She has over 30 years as an educator in library media, technology, and Career Technical Education - Business, Accounting, & Computing. She is an ISTE Certified Educator and a former ISTE Digital Leader of the Year. Her work with ISTE includes support for ISTE Certification, authoring courses on the ISTE Educator Standards and ISTE Student Standards and the ISTE Seal of Alignment as a co-creator of the 21things4 project.
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