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The following are some examples of templates and other instructional resources I have developed. These resources have been made available to faculty I work with as a means to enhance their instruction across different modalities. To access a larger library of templates, you can visit CVTC's Digital Learning Center, which is a faculty-facing website I created to host resources meant to guide and enhance digital learning.
Technology Used: Google Slides
Cognitive Domain: Evaluate
Use a collaborative slide deck in combination with emojis as a way for students to indicate their response to a prompt along a spectrum from one extreme to another. This activity can serve as a prelude to a class discussion.
Technology Used: Google Slides
Cognitive Domain: Understand/Apply
Use a collaborative slide deck to create virtual sticky notes in which learners can document ideas in their web conference breakout rooms. This ensures breakout activities have a clear purpose and allows the instructor to monitor student progress.
Technology Used: Flipgrid
Cognitive Domain: Remember/Understand
Students record short video exit tickets in which they reflect on their learning and respond to a prompt from the instructor. This facilitates recall of key concepts and provides a means for the instructor to assess learner comprehension.
Technology Used: Google Slides
Cognitive Domain: Evaluate
This activity allows an instructor to facilitate the traditional four corners cooperative learning structure in an online environment. Students must choose a side and move their emoji appropriately. This can be followed with a whip around discussion.
Technology Used: Padlet
Cognitive Domain: Analyze
Utilizing Padlet's canvas template, students make contributions that relate to a core concept provided by the instructor. Using the branching mechanic, students can visualize relationships as well as add labels to these connections.
Technology Used: Google Slides
Cognitive Domain: Understand
The virtual gallery walk uses a collaborative slide deck as an alternative to posters used in a physical classroom. Assign students or groups their own slide in the deck and invite them to make contributions. An easy follow-up activity is to conduct a peer review in which students view and provide written comments on each other's work.
Online Course Construction & Facilitation Checklist
Online Course Construction & Facilitation Checklist
I developed this checklist as a means to guide faculty through the key aspects of high quality course construction and give them an understanding of what facilitating an online course should entail. This checklist uses the Quality Matters standards as a reference point as well as the best practices developed by Mountain View College.
In addition to these checklists, the third page provides an overview of high-impact instructional tools that can be leveraged to spur learner engagement and conduct formative assessment in an online environment.
Video Assessment Strategies
Video Assessment Strategies
The term "lecture video" tends to limit how instructors think about the incorporation of video content in their courses. I created this document to help faculty think of alternative ways to approach video content by curating various methods of assessment and content delivery. The technologies focused on in this document were those used by Chippewa Valley Technical College at the time of its creation. Each strategy has a brief summary on the backside to explain it in more detail.
Also included along with the strategies are 5 reasons instructors should use video assessments, along with tips for students success. I often found success in creating documents like this, since instructors often enjoy having a one-page document they can print off and easily reference at their desk and working on their lessons.
OpenRN
OpenRN
Overview of the Project and its Impact
Overview of the Project and its Impact
The Open RN project is funded by a $2.5 million dollar grant from the Department of Education to create 5 OER Nursing Textbooks with 25 associated virtual simulations along as well as 25 virtual reality scenarios. As Instructional Technologist for the OpenRN project, I have led the adoption and implementation of a range of technologies to facilitate the creation and publication of OER learning content. I have been responsible for authoring the project's virtual simulations in collaboration with the team's subject matter experts. To date, the content developed by OpenRN has saved WTCS nursing students over $1.5 million dollars. Wisconsin Technical Colleges have also reported a 5% increase in student success rate with the use of OpenRN materials. And according to a survey of WTCS students using the OpenRN virtual scenarios that I authored, “95% agreed or strongly agreed OpenRN’s virtual simulations encouraged the development of clinical judgment.”
Our work has been used both nationally and internationally, with over a quarter million users in the Philippines, India, Canada, Australia, and the UK. In 2020 and 2021, our project received awards for Best OER from OE Global, in recognition for the exemplary learning materials we have developed.
Examples of my work with OpenRN
Examples of my work with OpenRN
Below are examples of some of the content I developed as part of the OpenRN team.
Heart Failure on a Ventilator Virtual Simulation
Heart Failure on a Ventilator Virtual Simulation
This scenario adapts content that was created from the ARISE project, which used live actors to create augmented reality scenarios with the assistance of iPads and QR codes. The content of these scenarios was also adapted in H5P to make them more accessible for students.
Prenatal Nursing Care Virtual Simulation
Prenatal Nursing Care Virtual Simulation
Similar to the scenario above, this scenario leverages assets from the ARISE project to guide learners through a branching scenario. A key difference between this scenario and the one above is that learners are given the choice of which phase in prenatal care to test their comprehension. The OpenRN project made great use of both the interactive book and the branching scenario tools available within H5P.
Simulation Plan: Administering Nitroglycerin To A Client With Chronic Angina
Simulation Plan: Administering Nitroglycerin To A Client With Chronic Angina
In addition to virtual simulations, the OpenRN project developed a series of VR scenarios. One of my major contributions to these was the creation of VR Scenario Plans that could be used by faculty and lab techs. This is an example of a scenario plan that was built based off my original template. This template was leveraged for the creation of all VR scenarios in the OpenRN project.
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