The Online Competencies Curriculum - Leveraging Blended Learning in the Liberal Arts

This session will provide an overview of the Online Competencies Curriculum (OCC) project, including planning, piloting, implementation, and assessment while sharing “lessons learned” from a multi-institutional collaboration on a digital learning project. The OCC is a three-year Teagle Foundation funded project to develop a set of modules in three emerging and evolving competency areas (Information Fluency, Communication and Presentation Skills, and Technological Adaptability). These are part of essential competencies articulated in AAC&U’s Liberal Education and America’s Promise (LEAP) learning outcomes, as well as the Lumina Foundation’s Degree Qualifications Profile 2.0 (DQP). The modules are meant to be applicable across multiple courses and disciplines, helping students make connections between courses as well as give them skills that will help them beyond their degree. One of the key takeaways we will also share is the shift in our perspective of how the modules could be of use in a broader context. Instead of being stand alone learning objects that students completed to gain a competency, they have also been very helpful in providing instructors and students with baseline knowledge to build on in the identified areas. They help both instructors and students identify what students already know and scaffold from there. Other unintended consequences we learned were that the modules can be used as a way to introduce students to concepts of data collection within an institution and elsewhere

The Online Competencies Curriculum - Leveraging Blended Learning in the Liberal Arts

This session will provide an overview of the Online Competencies Curriculum (OCC) project, including planning, piloting, implementation, and assessment while sharing “lessons learned” from a multi-institutional collaboration on a digital learning project. The OCC is a three-year Teagle Foundation funded project to develop a set of modules in three emerging and evolving competency areas (Information Fluency, Communication and Presentation Skills, and Technological Adaptability). These are part of essential competencies articulated in AAC&U’s Liberal Education and America’s Promise (LEAP) learning outcomes, as well as the Lumina Foundation’s Degree Qualifications Profile 2.0 (DQP). The modules are meant to be applicable across multiple courses and disciplines, helping students make connections between courses as well as give them skills that will help them beyond their degree. One of the key takeaways we will also share is the shift in our perspective of how the modules could be of use in a broader context. Instead of being stand alone learning objects that students completed to gain a competency, they have also been very helpful in providing instructors and students with baseline knowledge to build on in the identified areas. They help both instructors and students identify what students already know and scaffold from there. Other unintended consequences we learned were that the modules can be used as a way to introduce students to concepts of data collection within an institution and elsewhere

War of the Worlds to Social Media

Adam Rugg is a contributing author, Risk, Crisis, and Mobilization in the Twitter Use of US Senatorial Candidates in 2010 . Book description: Seventy-five years after the infamous broadcast, does War of the Worlds still matter? This book answers with a resounding yes! Contributors revisit the broadcast event in order to reconsider its place as a milestone in media history, and to explore its role as a formative event for understanding citizens’ media use in times of crisis. Uniquely focused on the continuities between radio’s «new» media moment and our contemporary era of social media, the collection takes War of the Worlds as a starting point for investigating key issues in twenty-first-century communication, including: the problem of misrepresentation in mediated communication; the importance of social context for interpreting communication; and the dynamic role of listeners, viewers and users in talking back to media producers and institutions. By examining the «crisis» moment of the original broadcast in its international, academic, technological, industrial, and historical context, as well as the role of contemporary new media in ongoing «crisis» events, this volume demonstrates the broad, historical link between new media and crisis over the course of a century.https://digitalcommons.fairfield.edu/communications-books/1017/thumbnail.jp