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Establishing a Sense of Place in MOOCs for Alumni
Engagement
Stace CarterUniversityVisual.co
Kristin [email protected]
@kpatwork
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Talk to Us
https://todaysmeet.com/place
#CLEMENTINE
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The Back Story• Experimenting in online learning
• Alumni survey = dissatisfaction with intellectual engagement
• Mitch wanted to take a hike
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March 2013 Alumni Survey• Over 7000 alumni have taken the survey as part of Strategic Planning
process.• Over 60% of respondents believe that UVa students would benefit from
flexible, technology-driven delivery of class content and means of demonstrating educational attainment.
• Alumni believe that UVa serves the needs of the Commonwealth of Virginia (90%,) Virginians (84%,) the higher education community (81%,) and the general population (71%.)
• 63% expressed some likelihood of enrolling in an online course for UVa alumni only.
• Respondents did express strong interest (70%) in participating in a one-time online lecture by a UVA faculty person.
• Over 50% of respondents expressed a likelihood of partnering with UVa to explore common interests and passions, and supporting cross-disciplinary studies that address national and/or global issues (55%,) collaborative research that addresses national and/or global issues (52%,) and Access UVa and college affordability (50%.)
2013 Alumni Surveyhttps://avillage.web.virginia.edu/iaas/survey/data/2012-13/
alumni13_overall_results_with_means.PDF
Meanwhile, in our courses…
Insert screen shots of discussion forums with love the smile at the end
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Audience Interaction• Introduce yourself to someone around you
• Ask them how they would like to engage with their alma matter
• Share ideas with the room and on https://todaysmeet.com/place
Meanwhile…..
Intentional, subject specific UVa background
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Forum posts on Med Moment
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Do you like where this is going?
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Bruce in Poe room
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What do we do now?• Future MOOCs / Sense of Place• iTunes U - scholarship• There’s an app for that
(maybe)• Residential discussion groups
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Measurements
• Feedback from alumni
• Satisfaction surveys from participants
• Input from UVa clubs
• Input from early admissions candidates