Justin O’BrienBeing Creative with online learning

School of Business & Management

Director for Undergraduate Education

National Teaching Fellow

Senior Lecturer in Marketing & Strategy

• Director UoL Distance Learning MBA/MSc International Management

• Fly-in faculty on Kaplan (Singapore) condensed BSc Management

• Transnational teaching in Paris, Toulouse, Stockholm & Dublin

• Created Digital Marketing module for new UoL BSc ManagementJust

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More Out of Moodle

Creativity

Team Working

Online Learning

How far away are you from a 3M product ?

Not ear plugs that block your partners snoring

3M helped

re-thinkthe battery

power problem

Our Darkest Hour

Allied Armies success due to:

- Creative, Problem Solving Culture“provided an environment that encouraged people to think creatively about the solutions to problems.”““Wheezers and Dodgers”, [section] dedicated to coming up with new technological solutions, but for the most part the practice of solving problems was incremental and undertaken by [wo]men on the spot.”

https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/how-ingenuity-helped-the-allies-win-1.1252670

Like……McLaren F1

� Chassis remains essentially the same

� Success depends on teamwork & transitions

� Incremental creativity: for turbo boost

eF1 waiting in the wings – but just doesn’t ‘feel’ (or sound) the sameExcellence. Premium. Performance.

• Enhanced model coming for next year• F1 Racing budgets cut to $145m• Limit on wheels, engines….• Stunning Campus Architecture• Surrey Based

Student Bandwidth•Paid work

•Commuting

• Screen Addiction ‘Netflix & Chill’

• TED Talks

•£9,250 (or less) marketisation

• Fill the blanks, teach the test schooling

Not all students are Tech Wizards

Etiquette, Fears & Building trust

• Being peer flamed for posting toady or embarrassing Qs

• Anonymous posting EXTREMELY DIFFICULT. Don’t.

• Screen collaborations & inappropriate noise – student policing ?

• FAQ / Q&A for a – staff re-posting

• LIVE – staff double headers – manage ‘chat’ questions

Students are not huge users of; Facebook (SU Socs & clubs for comms only)Twitter (Academics, Politicos and Newsies) &

LinkedIn (how engage professionally ?)

Insta, Snap and TikTok are cool.

Technology

Entertainment

Design

Part of a non-profit, non-partisan foundation. to make great ideas

accessible & spark

conversation.

5 to <18 minsAttention span friendly short talks

eLearning TechnologyEdutainment – learning that’s enjoyableInstructional Design

“If you don’t do it on the ground, don’t do it in the air”

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U-shaped curve – Moodle Content

Not too little Not too much

Just the right amount

Intuitive labels

White Space

Using ‘Labels’ to embed URL linked materials

Anchor text YouTube

Hyperlink

Shout out for Martin King and

the eLearning team

Adaptive or Conditional Release

Overlay essential (but often skipped) on top of prized content

[assessments]

E.g. Module handbook quiz

E.g. Harvard Referencing

E.g. Search engine capability test

E.g. Critical Analysis

3 Journey routes

1. Standard

2. First

3. Excellence

Playfulness

• Rick Rolling

• Loo lecture

• Smelly feet Role Play

• Open Space Learning – team picture sense making puzzle.

• Businessballs.com Icebreakers

Gamification via polls

•Kahoot

•Sli.do

•Socrative

•Padlet

•Quizlet LiveA

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It will fall over at first. Don’t give up.

1% Incremental Hacks

• Use a forum to crowd source a contemporary reading list of topics that capture student (Vs. faculty) interest & check Harvard refs.

• Wiki (like Google docs) to collaboratively create a document

• Track content use: Effectiveness ?

Above the Crease

We are all Content Marketers - think like the mediaUpside Down Design

GRID

Visual

Moodle

Windows

Self-created images in Typorama

mLearningfriendly

Click for Short Menus

Upside Down

The F-word.

Fast & Furious: Feedback

MCQ quizzes:Automark text answers using key words

Open book: Encourage group learning - 1% weighting ?

End of lecture learning check (& summative % ?)

Jay’s Virtual Pub Quiz ‘don’t Google’ format (live streamed and recorded)

Let Moodle help carry your marking burden & let students work together

Can’t handle 500 formative scripts for commenting ?Un-marked – time release model answer

Peer-marked – 1% weighting

Peer learning challenge – wiki / blog / vlog irl - student marked

Feedback

New Forms of ContentIce Breaking & Forming Trust Bonds

Academic Study Skills Development

Embedded Employment Enhancement

Assessment Preparation

TED talk videos90 sec journal video reportHistorical timelinesThe week in reviewPeer reading groupsNews topic review podcastDrop in clinicExpert panel discussionIndustry speakers – Zoom 247Instructor hangout

Has your flip flopped? Discovery learning with

extraordinary seminars

https://doi.org/10.37074/jalt.2019.2.1.5

From Sage-on-Stage to Facilitated Co-Creation with Gen Z’s

Lecture + Seminar model has served us well

Our business going forwards:

Educating students for jobs that do not exist yet

In a world where knowledge is just a spoken question away

+++Skills, problem based learning, transformational experiences+++

SIRI ? ALEXA ?Cortana ?

Quill pens & parchment multimedia visualisations

Individual, silence communicative TEAMcooperation & creativity

Knowledge recall Open book, Problem solving, Iterative testing

Exams (current format) = cheap & easy

Real world tests for real world learningReal world rarely has ‘exam conditions’:

We can get more out of MoodleU-Moodle slicker

Clear Sign Posting

Upside Down - Crease

Visual Label Links

Conditional Release

Personalised Journeys

Quiz based FFFFeedback

Assessment Innovation

Goldfish friendly TED short talks

Isn’t it time to consider new, blended friendly forms of assessment ?

White space

Turbo Charge Your Moodle

More Out of Moodle

Creativity

Team Working

Online Learning