Best Practices for Online Learning: Engage, Educate and Organize

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Julie Erickson
Online learning happens both in the classroom and at home. What are the best practices for helping learners in an online environment? This session will look at the tools, strategies and processes to help educators engage, educate and organize their learners for the most impact.

Audience:	Coaches, Principals/head teachers, Teachers
Skill level:	Beginner
Attendee devices:	Devices useful
Attendee device specification:	Laptop: Chromebook, Mac, PC Tablet: Android, iOS, Windows
Topic:	Online tools, apps & resources
Grade level:	PK-12
ISTE Standards:	For Educators: Leader Model for colleagues the identification, exploration, evaluation, curation and adoption of new digital resources and tools for learning. Designer Use technology to create, adapt and personalize learning experiences that foster independent learning and accommodate learner differences and needs. Design authentic learning activities that align with content area standards and use digital tools and resources to maximize active, deep learning.

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Sora

Proposal summary

Purpose & objective

Transitioning to a blended environment is stressful for both educators and students. Providing a focus for both educators and learners with the structures and tools to make the transition is critical

Online learning happens both in the classroom and at home. Do your learners know how to watch a video to learn from it? Do they know how to take effective notes? What are the best practices for helping learners in an online environment? This session will look at the tools, strategies and processes to help educators engage, educate and organize their learners for the most impact.

Upon completion of this session, attendees will be able to:

Implement strategies for helping learners be proficient online learners.
Identify tools for increasing learner engagement in an online environment.

Outline

0:00-0:05 Overview of the content
0:05-0:15 Transition from face-to-face to blended / turn and talk
0:15-0:25 The technology tools that made a difference / padlet sharing
0:25-0:35 Learner skills needed for successful online learning
0:35-0:40 Next steps and reflection (padlet)
0:40-0:45 Wrap-up and questions

Supporting research

Tucker, C., 2020. The Building Blocks Of An Online Lesson. [online] Catlintucker.com. Available at: [Accessed 6 October 2020].

Trust, T., 2020. Projects. [online] Torrey Trust, Ph.D. Available at: [Accessed 6 October 2020].

Nanda, S. How do create a perfect blend of the various learning components? (Sept. 7, 2016) eLearningLearning. Retrieved Jan. 3, 2018, from http://www.elearninglearning.com/blended-learning/cognitive/?open-article- id=5528480&article-title=how-do-you-create-a-perfect-blend-of-the-various-learning- components-&blog-domain=originlearning.com&blog-title=origin-learning

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Presenters

Julie Erickson, Lan Crew Colorado

Julie Erickson is a Learning Specialist at TIE. She currently works with school districts to implement technology along with coordinating an IMLS professional development grant for librarians. She is a Google Certified Trainer, a Microsoft Innovative Educator Expert and an MIE Trainer. She has a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from South Dakota School of Mines and Technology and a Master of Information Resources and Library Science from the University of Arizona.