1. Technology
What’s Here and What’s Coming

2. Personal and Professional Tech
Back up your data! Refine your workflow
Online
Google Drive
Microsoft One Drive
Dropbox
Offline
External Hard Drive
Thumbdrive

3. Personal and Professional Tech
Know that nothing online is truly secure
Recognize that your approach to privacy is likely much more conservative than your students’
We want our students to get jobs and succeed. Their digital footprint needs to be clean
Know how to use Google searches

4. Technology in the Classroom
Do you allow students to use technology during your class?
Trends:
Traditional Laptop
Tablet computers
Google Chromebook
Good and bad of each?

5. Digital Textbooks and Open Resources
4 Textbook manufacturers dominate the higher education market
Profit margins for these companies are routinely over 10%, Amazon has a profit margin of 0.45%
Schools are increasingly exploring ways to offer free or cheap textbooks to students
Average cost right now to students is $1,100 per year (2 semesters)
Students are countering this by pirating or simply refusing to read the textbooks
Open textbook movement is gaining momentum
You, as faculty, can have a direct impact on these costs to students

6. Create an e-Text
You can create your own electronic text to share with your students
They can use this on any of their devices
Apple iBooks Author is incredible in the way it allows you to create your own text
Have your students CREATE their own, unique content, instead of simply consuming the content you give them

7. Student-created Books
If they don’t have a Mac, then:
Write the content in Word
Convert to .ePub file using Calibre

8. Web 2.0 Resources Evernote
Stoodle (share an interactive whiteboard with anyone for real-time collaboration)
Weebly (you or your students build a website easily)
Poll Everywhere
Google Drive (awesome for student surveys)
Kahoot

9. Web 2.0 Resources Socrative Skype (bring a guest into your classroom)
Touchcast (interactive video, very cool)

10. Mobile Apps Dropbox Notability SmartSeat Evernote CamScanner
What do you all recommend?

11. Online Teaching and Learning
What works?
What needs improvement?
Successes, failures? Share your story

12. Using D2l How can you improve your courses?
Look into doing a Quality Matters workshop
Your university could pay for it
Improves your course design
Gives you ideas on how to integrate your content online

13. QM Takeaways
Clearly state expectations and objectives to your students, and make sure they are relevant to the level of the course (1st year, senior, graduate level, etc.)
Ensure you have assessments that measure these objectives
Make sure the grading policy is clear and transparent
Explain clearly how the instructional materials will be used, make sure they are accessible
Activities in the course need to support active learning

14. QM Takeaways
Make sure the expectations for students’ and faculty’s response times are clearly stated in the course. Follow through
Make sure the tools support learner engagement
Ensure students know how to receive technical support. Put that information somewhere very visible
Accessibility to all technologies needs to be addressed

15. The shift to M-learning
Mobile learning is considered to be a big component in the ever-evolving field of distance education
Tablets and phones will be used more frequently to access course materials

16. Video and D2L
D2L supports direct upload of files, but it is problematic
If you don’t use a universally standard file type, students will have difficulties opening it
It won’t stream, they have to download it first
Youtube is my preferred method
Streaming is key
Embed your video right into D2L
Make video unlisted if you don’t want others to come across it

17. Adding Audio Adding audio to your online courses is easy
Can record directly into D2L but it is problematic, runs through Flash and doesn’t always work
If you have a traditional laptop without an SSD, Use an external USB mic when doing your recordings
Don’t make things too lengthy. 1 hour or even 30 minutes is too long. Break it up into shorter sections/modules
Use Voicethread!!

18. Horizon Report 2017 Adaptive Learning Mobile Learning
The Internet of Things
Next Generation LMS
Artificial Intelligence
Natural User Interfaces
Download Report

19. Questions? Chris.greer@gcsu.edu www.drchrisgreer.com