In this episode, John and Jason close off the 2023 Johns Hopkins University Excellence in Online Teaching Symposium with a live podcast recording, summarizing the day’s sessions and interacting with the audience around 6 Pillars of Humanizing Online Learning in the Second Half. See complete notes and transcripts at www.onlinelearningpodcast.com

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Links and Resources:

• 6 Guideposts - Slide Deck (via Gamma.app)


• Johns Hopkins Excellence in Online Teaching Symposium


• Jana Lay-Hwa Bowden, Leonie Tickle & Kay Naumann (2021) The four pillars of tertiary student engagement and success: a holistic measurement approach, Studies in Higher Education, 46:6, 1207-1224, DOI: 10.1080/03075079.2019.1672647


• Peabody Institute and their “Path to Funding” guide


• Advancing Diversity in AI Education and Research Symposium - Stanford


• Dr. Michelle Miller Substack - Teaching from the Same Side and the idea of “same-side pedagogy”

Theme Music: Pumped by RoccoW is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial License.

Transcript

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[00:00:00 ] Introducer: Welcome everyone. It's been a great day and we have. A very fun way that we're going to be ending today.

So this is our final session. I appreciate everyone greatly for attending our inaugural excellence and online teaching symposium and we're going to be ending our session with a live recorded podcast. We have Jason Johnston and John Nash, go ahead and take it away whenever you are ready.

[00:00:33 ] John Nash: Hi, I'm John Nash and I'm here with Jason Johnston

[00:00:36 ] Jason Johnston: Hey, John. Hey, everyone. And this is Online Learning in the Second Half, the online learning podcast.

[00:00:44 ] John Nash: Yeah, and we are doing this podcast to let you all in on a conversation we've been having and to let you be part of the conversation that we are having about online education.

Look, online learning has had its chance to be great and some of it is, but there's still quite a ways to go. What are we going to do to get to the next stage, Jason?

[00:01:05 ] Jason Johnston: That's a great question. How about we make a podcast and talk about it?

[00:01:10 ] John Nash: That sounds great. What do you want to talk about?

[00:01:13 ] Jason Johnston: Today I think it'd be great to continue our theme of how to humanize online learning in the second half and to do it with a number of our friends here.

So today we want to not only do a podcast, but do a session here at the Johns Hopkins Excellence in Online Teaching Symposium, the first ever. Is this right, Olysha? We're on the first ever.

[00:01:36 ] Olysha Magruder: That's correct. This is the inaugural symposium. So you're a part of the new wave.

[00:01:43 ] Jason Johnston: We're so glad to be here. Thank you for the invitation.

And this is exciting that we're here and we're doing a live session where we are recording. And we had the auspicious and difficult task of trying to bring a little summary to this day. It's been a good day, hasn't it, John?

[00:02:01 ] John Nash: Yeah, it's been amazing. We've been in every session that we could attend.

We split up and took some notes along the way about what the overarching themes were and where we see some opportunity, but we're so excited to see what you all think as well and what you took away.

[00:02:17 ] Jason Johnston: Yeah, so here's how we are planning to proceed in the next little bit here. Our ideal as we were looking at the day is to try to give us some guidelines to talk about. We tried to pull a few quotes. We have a A little bit of an outline that will guide us, but first we thought we should probably introduce ourselves.

John, you wanna go first?

[00:02:41 ] John Nash: Yeah, sure. I'm John Nash. I am an associate professor at the University of Kentucky in the Department of Educational Leadership Studies, where I'm also the Director of graduate studies. We are an all online. Department and a graduate program offering master's and the doctorate at the EDD and PhD level, and I'm also the director of the laboratory on design thinking at the University of Kentucky, where we look at human centered design and its application in organizations and leadership in schools.

[00:03:11 ] Jason Johnston: And I am Jason Johnston. I'm at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. I'm the executive director of online learning and course production. So, my big thing here is helping to stand up online programs, and I do it with a fabulous team of instructional designers, some of which are here. That's not the only reason why I said that, but some of them.

And media personnel who help to stand up online learning here at the University of Tennessee and do an amazing job of that. That's who we are. We also would like to just keep in mind that this is a recorded session. We would like to, as we go along, talk to all of you and hear from you as we proceed.

Please feel free to, unmute your mic as you have something to say or questions. And to quote Dr. Olysha Magruder I'm not sure what's gonna happen. And this is this was her, this is her plug for our session today was that I'm not sure what's going to happen in that one.

[00:04:13 ] Jason Johnston: We're not either, because part of this session is actually hearing from all of you, but we do have a few guiding ideas and guideposts that will help guide our discussion. John, you want to show our slides?

[00:04:29 ] Jason: And those who want to follow along at home can find these slides in the show notes.

[00:04:32 ] John Nash: And if the link that you got in the chat should track with what we're doing here today. And this document is made with the gamma. app. And so this document is a presentation deck. It's also a living document. It's a webpage and it's a handout. And so it's the new shimmer, if you will, of media.

And if you get that, then I love you. So browse through it before and after the session, as we. grow in our conversation in this hour. Some of that material may show up in here and please reuse and remix because we want you to do that. And so yeah, we're not sure what's going to happen in this one, but I think it's going to go well.

And we want to start to talk about being human to each other. The focus of our, podcast is to think about the second half of life for online learning. And we know it probably has much more life than we have in ourselves. But as we noted in the beginning, we think it's had its chance to be good, but we think that there's another chance here to be even better.

This whole day has really been about that. And so as we go forward, we want to talk about what we picked up on today and also really hear from what you picked up on. So Jason, do you want to say a little bit about where to find our podcast after this is done and people can listen to this?

[00:05:52 ] Jason Johnston: Yeah, onlinelearningpodcast. com. That URL actually will take you to our entire podcast. Not only is this session going to be edited and probably put out there, Maybe January, John but we just released on Monday, hot off the digital press a conversation with Dr. Olysha Magruder.

And so you can go check it out and listen to that podcast. Had a great conversation. One of the reasons why we're here today is that connection. Please listen in, let us know what you want to hear about. Like this session, we want this podcast to be a conversation and to be talking with all of you.

Yeah. And around the topics and subjects that you are interested in.

And without further ado John and I were trying to think of some larger themes. We guessed at a number of them before this day begun by, by looking at some of the session titles, by thinking about some of the ways in which we're thinking about humanizing online learning. But we have these six guideposts, if you would, and I think I was thinking about guideposts because my home here in Knoxville.

Pretty much every side of the driveway is a drop off and so there's a little turnaround that you know if you're somebody like me that drives a really cool car like a long, minivan There's a fair bit there's a fair bit of maneuvering to be done where I have to go into this turnaround And move forward what I did when I first got this place is to put in guide posts for myself so that I did not want to end up with a minivan in the ditch.

My own ditch. of my own making and and so putting in guideposts, especially at these kind of key spots as I'm coming up over the top, coming onto the driveway and as I'm doing into this turnaround putting some that were lit,