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As you know my passion is on online learning and I do a lot in my classes, but my goal is to find ways to spark change throughout our college and district so that all students can be successful.

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Sparking Change in Online Learning

Deninse Maduli-Williams
As you know my passion is on online learning and I do a lot in my classes, but my goal is to find ways to spark change throughout our college and district so that all students can be successful.

Whatever it Takes:
How Professional Learning Communities Respond When Kids Don't Learn

The book from DuFour and Melissa, Ruth and I shared. And what I really took from it is how the college community needs to respond to online learning and students who are not successful.
Photo by Barth Bailey

CA Community Colleges offer more online courses than any other public higher education institution in the country

Rising wave of online learning. Based first on student need - it's a privilege to come on campus - to have money for gas and parking, to not have to work during class time, to have childcare, to not have physical or learning disabilities that make it difficult in the classroom, to not be an active or reserve duty military member.

1 in 3 students

took an online class in 2016-2017 in the CCC
We can't allow 1/3 of our students to be in online learning experiences that are not real learning opportunities.

860,283

students enrolled in an online course in 2016-2017
The motivation cannot only be on the student -

In 2016-17, the average distance education student was female, 20-24 years old and Hispanic.

changing demographics, especially online.
Photo by Tim Marshall

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doing great work to close the gap in F2F and online learning - closed to 4% difference, but it doesn't show the lower rates for students of color and especially men of color.

Being Human

Research shows that humanizing the classroom is what can make that difference.
Photo by Franck V.

Social Presence:
The degree to which online students feel connected to each other and the professor.

Feeling that their instructor cared about them, knew them, and was a real person makes a difference in student satisfaction.

“...the Professional Learning Community (PLC) offers the most powerful conceptual model for transforming schools to meet their new challenges.”

Coming back to the idea of how can a professional learning community support students in the online environment.
Photo by Slava Bowman

Problems with PD

Time + Cost + Location
one and done
expensive to travel to conferences
not everyone can make it
training F2F for online experiences is kind of weird.

"Untethered" PD

Anytime or place. No cost. Practical
No type of PD series - brainstorm ways for a more chaotic/messy but organized PD where everyone can participate. With practical experiences available at any time and practical.
Photo by Kyle Hinkson

SPACES

Social Presence, Accessibility, Collaboration, and Engagement for Students
Brainstormed this year.

Cross-Colleges
Online
Available
Badges
Practical

Plan for the college and the district.
Photo by Jeremy Thomas

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Our "course"
chaotic
available
recording
all of us are leading it
providing the structure
downloadable, live webinars. student panels
fun badges

Problems/Challenges:
marketing
word of mouth
college resources (release time/payment for organizers)
buy in

Adobe Spark Stories

Social Presence + Learning
first module
storytelling --> activity --> a tool --> create --> share from your discipline

Learning Out Loud

walk through of tech
remember the "Because of this . . . "
Pixar in a Box

Humanize online learning.
Utilize technology to make learning experiences spectacular.
Improve the educational landscape with technology.

My Moonshot
starting small

What would it take
to make what we do more
effective?
(Michael Fullan)

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