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Are your learning strategies preparing students for success in today’s workplace? Enhance student learning and retention by using state-of-the-art technologies to perform office jobs relevant to workplace success. Teach Word 2013 while also developing creativity, productivity, communication, and document design skills. Provide experience with projects that simulate realwork environments to give students a competitive edge in the part-time job market and relevant experience required when they graduate. Discover a solution that is easy for students to access and use and for you to train, grade, and assess keyboarding and word processing proficiency.
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A Productivity/Project Approach to Teaching Microsoft® Word 2013
Vicki Robertson and Susie VanHuss
Agenda
• Why Word 2013?• Why a productivity/project approach?• Benefits to students/instructors/employers• Learning strategies to prepare students for
workplace success
Why Word 2013?
• Most comprehensive word processor• State-of-the artWord
• De facto standard• 90+% market share (Gartner, Forbes, WSJ) MS Office
• 2-year graduates – Word 16 in Beta• 4-year graduates – Word 16 in
workplace 1-2 years (MS timeline)Workplace
Why a Productivity/Project Approach?
1. Addresses students’ lack of strong basic skills (keyboarding & communication)
2. Sound pedagogical approach – simple to complex with extensive reinforcement
3. Easy to learn and easy to teach at all levels
4. Learning-focused engagement
5. Direct career link
Student Realities
Huge opportunity for instructors of first-year courses to make a real difference in the lives of their students!
Student Benefits from Productivity/ Project Approach
• Develop basic keyboarding, communication, and word processing skills needed for virtually all jobs in the first semester
• Engaging approach clearly linking instruction to workplace success
• Huge advantage in competing for better on-campus and community part-time jobs
• Develop skills to gain relevant work experience while in school
Instructor Realities and Benefits• Increasing student retention is easier
and cheaper than recruiting new students for your program
• Students employed part-time in administrative offices on campus showcase your program
• Students learn that your program is the best way to get relevant part-time work experience (Word of mouth recruiting!)Enhancing students’ opportunities
for workplace success, makes a real difference in their lives! The real reward of teaching is knowing that you made a difference in your students’ lives!
Employer BenefitsEmployer expectations for entry level:
Productivity/project approach can prepare students to meet these expectations!
Immediate productivity from new hires
Relevant work experience
Soft skills
Essential technical skills
Office Productivity
Keyboarding and communication skills (KPDO)
Essential word processing commands and formatting
Productivity tools in Word(Building blocks—headers, footers, cover pages, table designs,
templates, Quick Parts, styles, SmartArt, collaboration tools, etc.)
Illustrated Learning Strategies
Select learning strategies based on student learning outcomes.
Integrate Communication Skills
Essential Word Processing Commands
Concept
Step-by-step instructions Illustration
Immediate, simple practice of one or two commands
Apply Commands, Formats, and Basic Skills
Start with Model Document and Callouts
Apply All Formats and Reduce Directions
Project Approach—Realistic Work Setting
Same company setting is used at end of each module (3-7) to review commands and formats taught in that module.
Uses SOPs to minimize directions
Project 8 – Comprehensive project
Minimal Instructions
Focus is on what to do—not how to do it
Integrate Communication Skills
Requires synthesizing information from a previous report as well as composition and editing skills
Summary
•Works equally well with learning beginning and advanced command and formats
Consistentsimple-to-complex
approach
•Keyboarding and communications•Beginning and advanced Word•Simple and complex document formatting•Follows business-type standard operating procedures
Integrates a wide range of skills in a realistic business
setting
•Shows the relevance of instruction to workplace success•Tool to retain students throughout first year and into second year•Prepares students for entry-level workplace success
Engaging and career focused
Contact Information
Susie H. VanHuss, Ph.D.Distinguished Professor EmeritusMoore School of BusinessUniversity of South Carolinasusievanhuss@bellsouth.net803.799.9459
Note: Illustrations of learning strategies in this presentation are copyrighted by Cengage Learning or Susie H. VanHuss 2013.
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