1. A Journey of Innovations in Higher Education at a Graduate Health Sciences Institution
Devrim Ozdemir, Ph.D.

2. Background Traditional Online Learning Experience
Non-traditional Online Learning Experience
Focused Online Learning Experience

3. Traditional Online Learning Experience
Lead Instructional Designer at Black Hills State University
Developed an Instructional Design Services Portal
Developed Quality Assurance System for Online Courses
Developed Online Workshop Registration System
Developed and Revised hundreds of online courses in Elementary Education, Secondary Education, Special Education, Early Childhood Education, English, Mathematics, Library Media, Accounting, Economy, Business Administration, Humanities, Sociology, Indian Education, Information Systems, Strategic Leadership, Philosophy, Psychology, Mass Communication, Wellness, Art, and Human Resource Management
Completed 203 online course reviews in 2 years 5 months using the adapted public domain version of QualityMatters rubric
Moderated Online Student Orientations
Provided workshops on accessibility, universal design, creative commons, web 2.0 technologies, LMS tools, cheating and plagiarism, copyright and fair use, and many educational topics in online education through face-to- face and webinars

4. Non-traditional Online Learning
Director of Language Technologies at George Mason University
Development of first Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) for GMU
Development of first online competency-based degree program with prior learning assessment (Bachelor of Applied Sciences in Technology and Innovation) (market analysis, curriculum development, and coordination among business and applied information technology programs)
Coordinated Distributed Education courses via Cisco supported classrooms for less commonly taught foreign languages among four different universities (GMU, JMU, UVA, VT)
Secured a grant from SCHEV and developed OASIS in collaboration with the associate provost for undergraduate education and the director of IT projects and Information Services
Lead Instructional Designer at Black Hills State University
Developed a Virtual Learning Environment using Second Life

5. Focused Online Learning Experience
Developed online courses in Master of Public Health and Master of Health Administration programs and hybrid courses in Master of Science in Physician Assistant Studies
Developed a Quality Assurance Review System in the LMS and reviewed 32 courses in MHA and MPH programs.
Lead the MHA program to develop and implement their electronic portfolio initiative in D2L
Lead the programs to conduct curriculum alignment to utilize learning analytics (D2L Insights) and aligned course curricula of more than 60 courses in three different programs
Developed Learning Object Repositories in D2L LOR to conduct curriculum analysis
Supported all three program during their accreditation site visits

6. Three Innovations
Learning Management System as an Online Course Design Review System
Learning Object Repositories for Curricular Analysis
Learning Analytics for Evaluations at Program, Course, and Individual Student level

7. Learning Management System as an Online Course Review

8. Learning Object Repositories for Curricular Analysis
LOR: A shared folder in the cloud that one or more users can upload stand-alone electronic documents to share with other permitted people
Metadata: In addition to the data that uploaded files contain other attributes (data) can also be attached to those files called metadata such as author’s name, duration, target audience, etc.
Taxonomy: Taxonomies can be created in the LOR to categorize the uploaded files.
Current Use 1: A pre-identified teaching/learning activities and assessment strategies, uploaded learning objects from courses have been analyzed to determine the percentage of higher vs. lower teaching/learning activities and assessment strategies based on the estimated time for student to complete the activity.
Current Use 2: Content provided to the students has been analyzed to determine if students are properly prepared for the licensing exams using the content blueprint provided by the licensing association.

9. A Sample of the Learning Objects in the Repository

10. Curriculum Mapping to Curriculum Alignment
Intended Curriculum
Theme 1 (Clinical Skills)
Course 1
Course 5
Course 7
Aligned Intended, Enacted, and Assessed Curriculum
Competency or Program Goals
Course Objective1
Teaching and Learning Activity 1
Teaching and Learning Activity 2
Summative Learning Assessment 1
Course Objective 2
Teaching and Learning Activity 4
Summative Learning Assessment 2

11. Flipped and Personalized Learning

12. Learning Analytics
Student Name and Photo

13. Results
Improvement of the alignment between intended, enacted, and assessed, and learned curriculum
Degree program level reports such as Student Learning Assessment Reports of the degree programs
Special accreditation self-study documents to report on the attainment of student learning outcomes
Internal course evaluation reports and advisory board meetings
Improvement of the program competency coverages in certain courses
Improvement of course objectives to target for higher order learning
Improvement of assessments and corresponding rubrics for higher order learning
Improvement of teaching and learning activities to promote higher order learning
Analyze and improve the efforts on certain competencies such as Interprofessional Education and Cultural Competency
Improve collegial collaboration between faculty during the faculty retreats
Improve the student learning by presenting functional course objectives and immediate achievement results on these course objectives and their corresponding competencies
Improving collaboration between advisors and students by providing advisees’ progress to the advisors in the program via Auditor Widget

14. Thank you!