Course Outcome/Goal
Learners will be able to research, design, and build an online or blended learning course and prototype their online learning project to key stakeholders.
Learning Outcomes
Activities
Assessments
Foundational
Analyze important elements of online learning design to develop an effective online or blended course design.
Explore design considerations including quality, accessibility, and design guidelines and select an online learning design approach.
Develop a design document and supporting media and resources that can be shared with stakeholders.
Discussion
Share a fully developed design strategy and give and receive feedback from peers.
Reflection & Discussion
Application
Apply the instructional design strategy and create an online or blended learning implementation.
Select a platform and implement a prototype of an online or blended learning course and share the implementation with peers.
Discussion
Share a well-developed implementation prototype of or online or blended learning and give and receive feedback from peers.
Reflection & Discussion
Integration
Justify design choices, pedagogical perspectives, and implementation strategies of the online or blended learning design project.
Plan and conduct prototype usability testing by stakeholders and/or peers.
Discussion
Summarize and share prototyping findings and enhancements to the online or blended course.
Reflection & Discussion
Human Dimension/Caring
Participate in constructive review and feedback of peer design projects.
Collaborate, review and feedforward peer design projects.
Discussion
Collaborate on the design, implementation, and usability testing.
Reflection & Discussion
Learning How to Learn
Compile digital resources that influence others and will promote the potential of your design project.
Create a design and development summary to provide a context for the development project and its potential uses.
Discussion
Showcase and promote the online or blended learning project.
Course Goal
Learners will identify technology innovations and embrace them as opportunities rather than challenges and proactively use those changes as catalysts to enhance their institution or district’s learning environments.
Learning Outcomes:
Aligning learning outcomes with activities and assessment:
Learning Outcomes
Assessment
Learning Activities
Foundational
Learners will identify and apply the principles of Disruptive Innovation.Learners will analyze technological innovation and change as a proactive catalyst.
Innovation Plan
Discussion
Blended Learning, Disrupting University or Innovator’s Dilemma and apply the principle of Disruptive Innovation to your particular educational setting.
Application
Learners will be able to identify, analyze and evaluate the impact of recent examples of Disruptive Innovation.
Literature review
Discussion
Review and examine the major and relevant data sources to identify disruptive trends that are currently or will be potentially impact your innovation plan.
Integration
Learners will be able to highlight the opportunities technological innovation spawns and develop strategies to proactively use these opportunities to move their institution/districts toward developing active learning environments.
Case studies –
Implementation strategy outline
Discussion
Examine exceptional examples of organizations using disruptive innovation to move their organizations forward. Identify and apply lessons to the development of your own implementation strategy to move your organization forward.
Human Dimension/Caring
Learners articulate their role in leading change and their responsibility in leading their learning communities through this process.
Video/Digital Story
Portfolio BlogDiscussion
Locate and identify an assortment of Ted, Youtube and Vimeo resources that convey the message of significant and active learning and bring these resources together in your blog that can be used to promote this perspective. Develop a your own video that conveys this message.
Learning How to Learn
Learners will locate, evaluate and compile web-based resources, experts and communities that will help them to promote current and future disruptive innovation opportunities.
Project plan
Portfolio Blog
Finalize innovation plan.
Add and organize the resources in your eportfolio/blog that can help you identify future disruptive innovations. Reflect on your role in leading the adoption of disruptive innovation in your learning environment. Organize your blog resources to support your change agent role.
How to Succeed in the ADL
If you haven’t already reviewed this page and the related links you owe it to yourself to spend the 30 minutes that it will take to see how to really do well in the DLL.
Why Authentic Learning Converts Into Lifelong Learning – We need to allow our learners to choose and work on authentic projects that will inspire their intrinsic passions for learning and help them grow their learner’s mindset.
In pursuit of the better way – the learner’s mindset – Perhaps, if we focused on nurturing and supporting our learner’s natural inquisitiveness and predisposition toward learning we would be much further ahead and wouldn’t then have to attempt to restore or rebuild what we have torn down in the first place.
Innovation Planning
How to Avoid EdTech Quickfix Traps – If you are considering a 1 to 1 initiative or using a software system for drilling in Math or Language/English then I want you to recognize that these are only a small part of a bigger picture and you need to shift your focus from technology to learning. Something along the lines of blended learning or project-based learning would be a very logical focus where these technologies would be used effectively.
Choosing Your Innovation Project – The selection of an Innovation Project is key to the Applied Digital Learning (ADL) program. This video provides key perspectives that will help you make a wise selection:
Innovation Proposal & Planning Tips – An overview of who you should focus on, what should go into your innovation proposal, and how to pull all your planning pieces together.
Are You Bolting a Jet Engine onto Your Horse Cart? – If you really want to get the most out of any learning opportunity you have to fight through the cognitive dissonance and experiment with the new ideas and processes to see if they really can make a difference.
The key to improving student achievement – Hattie argues examining, thinking, and talking with other teachers about the learning environments that we have created and are creating and the impact that we can have on learners is the most important thing we can do to improve our learner’s achievement.
Who Do You Trust Enough to Learn From? – The evidence is clear; if you want to learn more effectively online you need to collaborate with your classmates.
Where is My Discussion Post? If you have your introduction post and you can’t see it, chances are you posted it on someone else’s thread. Consider the following video to see how to avoid this in the future:
To Get the Real Story You Need to Go to Primary Sources – Because we live in an age when so much information is available we must not only be prepared but be willing to take the time that it takes to critically and analytically assess all the information we are taking in.
What are you learning today? – We need to continually ask – what are you learning today? This question leads to the next most important question – What do you want to learn next?
Case Studies – Implementation Outline
It’s About the Learning First
Implementation Outline Examples used in the video:
Why Good Ideas Too Often Go Bad – Useful ideas like Project-Based learning, 1 to 1, and blended learning can all too easily lose their benefit when we shift the focus from learning and just do projects, just focus on the devices, and just focus on the content delivery part of the blended learning.
The Gift of Intrinsic Motivation – Letting your learners experience the consequences of their actions (as long as they aren’t life-threatening) will be much more valuable to them in the long run than your intervening.
Opening Up Spaces for Answers – Why we run EDLD 5305 the course on innovation planning before we run EDLD 5313, the course on creating significant learning environments
Computers in Schools – Not Working…Yet – If focusing on the technology doesn’t improve learning then what does? the research is overwhelming…Focusing on the learning first then finding ways to enhance that experience with technology will improve learning.
My Video & Media Tools
How to Use The Power of Video – Make sure your videos are targeting the hearts before you target the minds of your audience.
Dwayne’s DIY Video Creation Toolbox & My Video & Media Tools – Video examples, the tools, and resources I used to create, edit and publish those videos and the full list of hardware, software and videos resources that I use on a regular basis to create the videos for your learning environments.
Contributions to Your Learning and Learning Community Grading
The Power of Vision – Transformative Scenario Planning
Telling stories about what might happen. Not stories about what will happen, not forecasts; not stories about what should happen; not proposals or visions or positions but stories about what MIGHT happen–relevant, challenging plausible clear stories about what might happen.
Because we give our learners choice, ownership, and voice through authentic learning opportunities when you complete the ADL program you will not only have an M.Ed in Applied Digital Learning you will have a(an):
Innovation plan & implementation strategy
Organizational change strategy
Learning environment
Instructional design/backward design experience
Measurement strategy
Online/blended course
Paper/Article/Conference presentation
Professional development/learning strategy
ePortfolio
Expanded and new personal learning networks (PLNs)
M. Ed. degree
Change in thinking about learning, a change in your learning approach, and a change in your learning environment that leads to a reignited Learner’s Mindset
We have created a significant learning environment in the ADL program in which we give the learner choice, ownership, and voice through authentic learning opportunities. ADL learners will:
Adopt a self-directed approach to learning and utilizing technologies in digital learning environments.
Create an ePortfolio to organize, communicate and promote digital learning and leading.
Embrace technological innovations as an opportunity rather than challenges.
Proactively use technological innovation as catalysts to enhance learning environments.
Develop the leadership qualities necessary to foster learning innovation.
Develop appropriate strategies to lead organizational change.
Manage resistance to change and conflict that occurs when launching innovative digital learning initiatives in educational environments.
Engage in and manage crucial conversations
Create significant learning environments.
Assess, implement, and promote inquiry-based theories and methods to enhance digital learning and leading.
Distinguish learner-centered instructional methods from teacher-centered methods and identify technologies that support each method
Construct and align learning objectives, assessment items, and learning activities based on expected outcomes for digital learners.
Promote the learning and growth mindset within the learning environment and the organization.
Identify, investigate and assess contemporary issues relevant to digital learning.
Measure the effectiveness of digital innovation strategies.
Design and create effective online or blended learning environments.
Promote digital citizenship and literacy as it relates to their professional practice.
Design and model authentic professional development activities that are active, have a significant duration and are specific to their discipline.
Synthesize the knowledge, skills, and values gained from the program and promote the use of choice, ownership, voice and authentic digital learning within their organizations.
