
Creating Immersive Learning Experiences in Online Courses
02/08/18 • 36 min
Ric Montelongo describes how he creates immersive learning experiences in online classes on episode 191 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
If you experiment, look at what support your institution has to offer.
—Ric Montelongo
Technology isn’t limited to online classes.
—Ric Montelongo
Be very mindful of privacy — not everyone likes to be recorded.
—Ric Montelongo
Resources Mentioned
- Episode 163 with Stacy Jacob
- GoPro HERO6 Black*
- Roller Coaster Database
- Roller Coaster POV Ride GoPro Example
- Salsa, Soul, & Spirit: Leadership for a Multicultural Age – Juana Bordas
- Historically Black Colleges & Universities (HBCUs)
- Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs)
- SHSU Online
- SHSU Digital Education Summit
- Texas A&M University Galveston Campus & Hurricane Ike 2008
- Hurricane Harvey Blog post for ACPA 2018 Convention
- Virtual Reality – CBS This Morning
- Planet Money podcast
- Marketplace podcast
- VoiceThread
Ric Montelongo describes how he creates immersive learning experiences in online classes on episode 191 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
If you experiment, look at what support your institution has to offer.
—Ric Montelongo
Technology isn’t limited to online classes.
—Ric Montelongo
Be very mindful of privacy — not everyone likes to be recorded.
—Ric Montelongo
Resources Mentioned
- Episode 163 with Stacy Jacob
- GoPro HERO6 Black*
- Roller Coaster Database
- Roller Coaster POV Ride GoPro Example
- Salsa, Soul, & Spirit: Leadership for a Multicultural Age – Juana Bordas
- Historically Black Colleges & Universities (HBCUs)
- Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs)
- SHSU Online
- SHSU Digital Education Summit
- Texas A&M University Galveston Campus & Hurricane Ike 2008
- Hurricane Harvey Blog post for ACPA 2018 Convention
- Virtual Reality – CBS This Morning
- Planet Money podcast
- Marketplace podcast
- VoiceThread
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Using Game-Based Pedagogy and Studying Our Teaching
Eddie talks about studying our teaching and his new book: Playing to Learn with Reacting to the Past: Research on High Impact, Active Learning Practices* on episode 190 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
We should take teaching ... as seriously as we take researching.
—C. Edward Watson
Are students learning what we are trying to ensure that they learn?
—C. Edward Watson
Resources Mentioned
- Role immersion games in the higher ed classroom on Episode 21 with Mark Carnes in October of 2014
- Minds on Fire, How Role-Immersion Games Transform College* by Mark Carnes
- Playing to Learn with Reacting to the Past: Research on High Impact, Active Learning Practices* by C. Edward Watson and Thomas Chase Hagood
- State of flow
- Scholarship Reconsidered: Priorities of the Professoriate* by Ernest L. Boyer
- Published games: Reacting site at Barnard College
- High-Impact Educational Practices
- Association of American Colleges and Universities Meetings and Events
- Conference on Higher Education Pedagogy at Virginia Tech
- Lilly Conferences
- Journal of Chemical Education
- Journal of Engineering Education
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