Leveraged Time: Learning Management Systems in the Classroom, Learning Management Systems as the...

Leveraged Time: Learning Management Systems in the Classroom, Learning

Management Systems as the Classroom

Jonnathan Busko, MD, MPH, FACEPAssistant Professor, Arts and Sciences

Maine Maritime Academy

Outcomes Objectives

• By the end of this session, the participant will be able to:– Define learning management system (LMS)– List at least 3 positive features of an LMS for an

educator– List at least 3 positive features of an LMS for a

student– Explain ways in which an LMS fosters intra- and

inter-organizational collaboration

Conflict of Interest

• Nope.

Learning Management System

• Formal– A software application to deliver, document,

administer, track, and report on e-learning educational courses or training programs

• Practical– A method for managing the content delivery and

educational interactions between the educator and the learner

Canvas

• A learning management system– Cloud based– Remote access– Instituted selectively Fall 2013 at MMA– Instituted campus wide Fall 2014

Canvas and Me: A Match Made in Registration

• Hired spring 2013– MD310: Medical Care Provider– MD311: Medical PIC

• Historically taught traditional format– MD310: 2 sessions MWF 1 hr / day and 1 session

3 hr evening– MD311: 1 session 3 hr evening

What I Promised

• Fall 2013– MD310: 1 traditional, 2 hybrid classes• Hybrid = 1 asynchrnous on-line class and 2 classroom

meetings / week

– MD311: 1 traditional class• Spring 2014– MD310: 1 traditional, 2 hybrid classes– MD311: 1 hybrid class• Hybrid = 1 hour asynchronous didactics and 2 hours in

the classroom

What Does it Look Like?

My (mostly) Positive Experience

• Inventing Time• Unlimited production budget• Prep time? • Out with the old, in with the new

How To Invent Time

• Overlapping classes– MD310 A: M/W/F 1300-1350– MD310 B: M/W 1100-1150, 1 hour anytime– MD310 C: W/F 1100-1150, 1 hour anytime

• Excused absences– All material (including lectures) in Canvas

• Snow days– Non-existent

The “Unlimited” Production Budget

• Multi-million dollar educational tools on-line• LMS allows collection of access in one place• LMS allows access synchronized with

sequence of education

Prep Time

• Build the content• Organize the content• Copy the content…

Presto Change-o

• My approach to video and my intellectual property

• Every item its own line item• Whoops, that didn’t work…

Collaboration

• Intra-organizational– PSY-xxx: Risk, Error and Survival• Multidisciplinary course

– Math, psychology, history, casualty analysis, marine transportation, physical educaton…

• Intra-LMS collaboration– Each professor sees what everyone else is teaching in one

place– Lecturers delivering only a single lecture

» On-line only with in-class collaborator clarifying

• Etc, etc…

Collaboration

• Inter-organizational– What classes doesn’t your institution offer?• Could institutions share specialists?

– Collaborative courses• Everyone has a best lecture they love to give• Could you build a multi-organizational course with

everyone’s best lectures?

The Student Perspective

Questions, Comments, Thoughts…