Educational Media Pathways (EMP)

Jason Toal

March 2, 2021

Greetings

Respectfully living, working and playing on the traditional territories of the  Syilx/Okanagan nation

About me

• Designer
• Educator
• Facillitator

Outline

• Stakeholder needs

• Review the EdMedia Program across 3 iterations

  • Version 1 (before times)

  • Version 2 (remote everything, ‘the blip’)

  • Version 3 (a new normal)

• Lessons learned

Stakeholders needs

• Faculty/Instructor literacy, purpose, process

• Student engagement, accessibility, choice

Faculty/Instructor needs

• building a literacy of media types, how they work together and the affordances of each

• making appropriate media that suit the pedagogical choices considering learning outcomes. Looking at the PURPOSE of the media over the QUALITY

• consider the production process including the skills and tools and resources such as time that are needed 

   

Students needs

• Flexible engagement - Clear learning goals that are relevant to each student. eg. a Visual Syllabus can be used to describe the flow and goals of the course.

• Accessible representation -  What images are chosen, how are they displayed? Is there diversity in the representations technically and subjectively? eg.  

• Choices expression - Having choices how to present knowledge as well as the timing and schedule of that presentation benefits student learning.

   

EMP Version 1.0 - Classic

• Program runs 2013-2018

• Access: Community of Practice

• Tech: Analogue to Digital

• Value: Active Learning and Student engagement

• Contributions: Topics = OER, Visual Practice, Web/Wordpress, + Project planning

design credit: Shantala Singh

design credit: Shantala Singh

design credit: Gabe Wong

EMP Version 2.0 - 'The blip'

• Program runs 2013-2018

• Access: Community of Practice

• Tech: Analogue to Digital

• Value: Active Learning and Student engagement

• Contributions: Topics = OER, Visual Practice, Web/Wordpress, + Project planning

EMP Version 3.0 - A new normal

• Program launches in 2021

• Access: 100% remote. “Pathways” metaphor, Literacy (novice), Fluency (intermediate) , Mastery (expert)

• Tech: Flex time - Canvas (LMS), Wordpress, Real time -  labs (Zoom), Interactivity (H5P),

• Value: Active Learning even in online modules, Using three levels of interaction (Student to Content, Instructor, Other Students)

• Contributions: Open Education (OER), Podcasting, H5P, LMS, Virtual whiteboards

design credit: Shantala Singh

Lessons Learned

• Model best practices

• Provide literacy across all topics

• Access: Where are faculty starting and where do they need to go?

• Tech: Do we know is learning taking place?

• Contributions: Going beyond

• Value: Students at the centre

• Students need to to see themselves represented in the learning experience. It is up to instructors to deploy their technology and media in ways that afford this. 

Thank you

https://edmediasfu.opened.ca/

https://edmediapathways.opened.ca/

https://studio20.bccampus.ca/

https://teachingvisually.opened.ca/

https://www.sfu.ca/cee/about/people/jasontoal.html