Presentation to the Capital Region Consortium for ALANA (African, Latino, Asian, Native American) Faculty Development (CRCAFD ) about online learning.

1. Capital Region Consortium for ALANA (African, Latino, Asian, Native American)
Faculty Development (CRCAFD )
The Debate and the Possibilities
around the use of Technology
Learner-centered Teaching
in Online Environments
Tom Mackey, Ph.D.
Dean
Center for Distance Learning
February 22, 2013

2. "Changing Course: Ten Years of Tracking Online Education in the United States”
• “Over 6.7 million students
were taking at least one
online course during the fall
2011 term, an increase of
570,000 students over the
previous year.”
http://sloanconsortium.org/news_press/january2013_new-study-over-67-million-students-learning-online

3. "Changing Course: Ten Years of Tracking Online Education in the United States”
• “Thirty-two percent of higher
education students now take
at least one course online.”
http://sloanconsortium.org/news_press/january2013_new-study-over-67-million-students-learning-online

4. "Changing Course: Ten Years of Tracking Online Education in the United States”
While total enrollments decreased, online enrollments increased.
http://www.pearsonlearningsolutions.com/assets/downloads/reports/changing-course-survey.pdf

5. Goal: 100,000 online learners SUNY
wide in three years

6. "Changing Course: Ten Years of Tracking Online Education in the United States”
• “Seventy-seven percent of
academic leaders rate the
learning outcomes in online
education as the same or
superior to those in face-to-
face classes.”
http://sloanconsortium.org/news_press/january2013_new-study-over-67-million-students-learning-online

7. "Changing Course: Ten Years of Tracking Online Education in the United States”
• “Only 2.6 percent of higher
education institutions
currently have a MOOC
(Massive Open Online
Course), another 9.4 percent
report MOOCs are in the
planning stages.”
http://sloanconsortium.org/news_press/january2013_new-study-over-67-million-students-learning-online

8. "Changing Course: Ten Years of Tracking Online Education in the United States”
45% agree it takes more faculty time and effort to teach online .
http://www.pearsonlearningsolutions.com/assets/downloads/reports/changing-course-survey.pdf

9. “Facebook reaches one billion users”
By Aaron Smith, Laurie Segall and Stacy Cowley
http://money.cnn.com/2012/10/04/technology/facebook-billion-users/index.html
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10. “Pinterest sets record for fastest site to
hit 10 million monthly visitors”
http://pinterest.com/pinterestbiz/pinterest-statistics/
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11. Horizon Report 2012
1. Mobile Apps
2. Tablet Computing
3. Game based learning
4. Learning Analytics
5. Gesture Based
Computing
6. The Internet of Things
http://www.nmc.org/publications/horizon-report-2012-higher-ed-edition 11

12. Study Options at Empire State College
• Mentor-Learner
• Individualized Degree Planning
• Prior Learning Assessment
(PLA)
• Guided Independent Study
• Group Study
• Online Study
• Blended study
• Residencies
• Emerging open formats:
MOOCs, Open Courses, OERs

13. Mobile Learning Studies
Using iPad to Teach Math
Exploring Content Delivery,
Communication and Convenience
with Mobile Technologies
Studies in Mobile Media
Kindling a Passion for Reading
American Popular Music
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14. Digital Storytelling

15. Learner-centered Online Projects
Patricia's Digital Story
"Home"
Collaborative
Wiki
Collaborative
Wordle
Collaborative story
and/or research?

16. From Wiki to Wordle
Collaborative story written by students in Digital Storytelling wiki:
http://digitalstorytellingspace.pbworks.com/w/page/17805331/Team-1
http://digitalstorytellingspace.pbworks.com/
http://digitalstorytellingspace.pbworks.com/

17. WordPress Blogs
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18. Open choice (Artifact assignment)
http://cogdogroo.wikispaces.com/StoryTools
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19. Open choice (Artifact assignment)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GnTUzxO3Ak
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20. https://voicethread.com/?#q.b409.i848804
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21. Online Learning Environment
Migration from
Migration from
Angel LMS to
Moodle to
Angel LMS
Moodle

22. Learning environment design: Ellen Murphy and Kathleen Stone
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23. Every learning activity in Moodle can be
exported to Mahara ePortfolio
-Ellen Murphy
Director of Online Curriculum
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24. Dr. Betty Hurley Dasgupta and Carol Yeager
Empire State
http://www.cdlprojects.com/cmc11blog/ College
MOOC

25. Dr. Betty Hurley Dasgupta and Carol Yeager
Creativity and Multicultural
Communication
• 492 registered participants (387 still registered)
• 14 Registered for credit (13 completed)
• 2 Registered in summer and completed
• 136 tweets
• 36 registered blog feeds
• 78 blog posts
• 36 discussions
• 96 comments
• Facebook group started by participants continues to be
active

26. Dr. Betty Hurley Dasgupta and Carol Yeager
http://math.cdlprojects.com/

27. Next MOOC for fall 2013:
#L4LLL
Literacies for Lifelong Learning
(a Metaliteracy MOOC)
Mackey, Thomas P. and Trudi E. Jacobson. “Reframing Information Literacy as
a Metaliteracy” January 2011 College & Research Libraries vol. 72 no. 1 62-78

28. Tom Mackey, Ph.D.
Dean
Center for Distance Learning
Tom.Mackey@esc.edu