Michelle Pacansky-Brock's keynote presentation shared at Innovate 2011, Ohio State on April 27, 2011. To view many of the media samples shared in the prez, please go to: http://mpbreflections.blogspot.com/p/share.html

1. Teaching in the
Age of Participation
Michelle Pacansky-Brock
brocansky@gmail.com
@brocansky image credit: Laurie Burruss

2. MAKE IT SOCIAL!
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3. ONLINE LEARNING IS A
DISRUPTIVE INNOVATION
“At first [online learning] was most often used for
distance learning. Increasingly, however, online learning
is being implemented in brick-and-mortar schools in
what is called blended learning; the content is
becoming more and more robust for individual learners
so that it motivates students to engage in deeper
learning, and the communication technology is
enhancing the ability of teachers and students to
interact.” (emphasis added)
Clayton M. Christensen,
Professor, Harvard Business School
Author of Disrupting Class
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4. HOW DO
WE GET THERE?
by Asma on Flickr

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9. by Thomas Hawk on Flickr
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10. http://docentesenextremadura.wikispaces.com/
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11. “THE ERA OF PARTICIPATION”
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12. “THE ERA OF PARTICIPATION”
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13. image credit: John Scott Haydon
• 500 million users (70% outside the US)
• 250 million users access FB through mobile
years old
• used by 95% of 18-24 college students in US (70% daily)*
*Source: Smith and Caruso. ECAR Study of Undergraduate Students and IT, 2010.
http://www.educause.edu/Resources/ECARStudyofUndergraduateStuden/217333
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14. •More video uploaded in 60 days than created by the 3
major US TV networks in 60 years.
years old
•More than 50% of videos are rated by other users.
•2010: 700 billion playbacks
•YouTube mobile: 100 million views per day
#InnovateOSU Source: YouTube, http://www.youtube.com/t/press_statistics

15. •Average of 450,000 new accounts per day
•One billion tweets sent per week
years in last year
•Twitter mobile: 182% increase
old
#InnovateOSU Source: Twitter, http://blog.twitter.com/2011/03/numbers.html

16. Visualization of Tweets including #Jan25
sent on: Feb 11, 2011
by André Panisson using Gephi
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17. PARTICIPATORY LEARNING IS
COMMONPLACE
“Since the current generation of
college students has no memory of
the historical moment before the
advent of the Internet, we are
suggesting that participatory learning
as a practice is no longer exotic or
new but a commonplace way of
socializing and learning. For many, it
seems entirely unremarkable.”
The Future of Thinking: Learning Institutions in a Digital Age by Cathy N. Davidson and David Theo Goldberg with
Zoë Marie Jones. From the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Reports on Digital Media and Learning.
MIT Press: Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2009.

18. #InnovateOSU
© Laurie Burruss

19. #InnovateOSU

20. The internet is
a delivery method.

21. The internet is
a culture
grounded in participation and personalization.

22. TIME FOR A CHANGE

23. #InnovateOSU

24. Instruction Paradigm Learning Paradigm
Transfer knowledge from Elicit students’ discovery and
faculty to students construction of knowledge
Identify your Achieve specified learning results
Cover material paradigm.
Faculty role is designer of learning
Faculty role is “lecturer”
methods and environments
Achieve access for diverse Achieve learning success for
student groups diverse student groups
Barr & Tagg, From Teaching to Learning: A New Paradigm for Undergraduate Education, Change,
Nov/Dec 1995, 13-25. Table graphic is an adapted from the work of Jim Julius.
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25. Keys to Improving College
Degree Attainment Rate:
• Moredeep learning, less rote
memorization
Center for Community College Student Engagement
http://www.ccsse.org/
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26. creating
g
nin
ear
evaluating Increase F2F
L
ep time spent
De
on fostering
analyzing these skills.
applying
ion
understanding Reduce F2F
zat
time spent
ori
m
on fostering
remembering
Me
these skills.
te
Ro
Cognitive Domain

27. A NEW MODEL
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28. Learning Unit Learning Unit Learning Unit
Learning Objectives Learning Objectives Learning Objectives
Reading Assignment Reading Assignment Reading Assignment
Mobile Lecture Mobile Lecture Mobile Lecture
Pre-Class VoiceThread Pre-Class VoiceThread Pre-Class VoiceThread
Assessments
Formative
In-Class Activities In-Class Activities In-Class Activities
Post-Class VoiceThread Post-Class VoiceThread Post-Class VoiceThread
Assessments
Formative
Assessments
Summative
Individual Assessments: Exams, Essays, Projects

29. Mobile Lectures
listen or read
(pause, rewind, replay)
Taminator on Flickr
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30. “Untethered Learning”
Julie Evans, Project Tomorrow
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31. by Robert the Noid

32. peer-to-peer, participatory learning
web-based application
no cost to student
provides conversations around media
comments in voice, video or text
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33. pre- and post-class
Online Formative Assessments
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34. pre-class
Online Formative Assessments
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35. Learning Unit
Learning Objectives
Reading Assignment
Mobile Lecture
Pre-Class VoiceThread
In-Class Activities
Post-Class VoiceThread
#InnovateOSU Summative Assessment

36. post-class
Online Formative Assessments
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37. WIKIS: COLLABORATIVE CONSTRUCTION
OF KNOWLEDGE T he
Ch Wik
alle i
nge
Course Outcome: !
Identify significant achievements made by women artists.
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38. STUDY THIS!
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39. Departing students leave “advice for
success” for incoming students.

40. wiki page

41. USE THEM!
•“Call a Friend” Surveys
Flickr
•Poll Everywhere
r on
(free, texting turns phones into clickers)
Ferre
Jofre
• Have students participate in a
e by
imag
Twitter backchannel.
cloud
• Send scheduled tweets during class
(ask questions for students to reply to)
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42. STUDENT SURVEY
RESULTS
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43. HAVING THE OPTION TO READ OR LISTEN TO A
LECTURE INCREASED MY ABILITY TO ACHIEVE THE
LEARNING OBJECTIVES.
92.5% = strongly agreed/agreed
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44. WHEN GIVEN THE OPTION TO READ OR LISTEN TO
A LECTURE, WHICH OPTION DID YOU CHOOSE?
0.500
40%
0.375
30%
0.250
15%
15% 0.125
read
listened
both 0
sometimes
read, sometimes neither
listened
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45. WHY DID YOU CHOOSE THIS
LECTURE FORMAT?
0.700
67%
0.525
0.350
22% 0.175
Meets
my learning Most 11% 0
style convenient It’s what I’m
for me used to Didn’t want
doing to deal with
more
technology
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46. BY COMPLETING THE LECTURES OUTSIDE THE
CLASSROOM, THE TIME WE SPENT IN CLASS WAS
MORE RELEVANT TO MY OWN LEARNING.
0.500
41% 40% 0.375
0.250
15% 0.125
Strongly Agree
Agree
Neutral 4% 0
Disagree 81% = strongly
Strongly Disagree agree/agree
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47. THE VARIETY OF LEARNING MATERIALS PLAYED
A ROLE IN HELPING ME REACH THE COURSE
LEARNING OBJECTIVES.
0.900
0.675
0.450
0.225
Strongly Agree
Agree 0
Neutral
Disagree
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48. THIS CLASS HELPED ME UNDERSTAND
HOW I LEARN BEST.
0.500
41% 40% 0.375
0.250
15% 0.125
Strongly Agree 81% = strongly
Agree Neutral 0 agreed/agreed
Disagree
Strongly Disagree
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49. Effect on Success and
Retention?
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50. 10% INCREASE IN SUCCESS
12% INCREASE IN RETENTION
0.900
90%
“flipped” classroom
83%
83% traditional classroom
0.675
67%
0.450
Success: # enrolled at census
divided by the number of students
0.225
who end with an A, B, or C
Success 0 Retention: # enrolled at census
Retention divided by the number enrolled at
end of term.
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51. Feedback on Use of VoiceThread
• “I liked the voicethreads the best because it helped make
me think in other ways and get different perspectives from
my fellow students.”
• “...created an environment for people to do well who don’t
always do best in a classroom environment if they’re afraid to
talk in class or if the class is run by a group of students who
dominate the conversation.”
• “... helped me to really understand the content we were
learning and also get feedback from other students and from
our professor as well.”
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52. Student Interview
Listen to the full 20-minute interview at:
http://mpbreflections.blogspot.com/p/share.html
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54. Michelle Pacansky-Brock
email: brocansky@gmail.com
blog: http://mpbreflections.blogspot.com
@brocansky
#InnovateOSU