Introduction to the Experiential Learning Assignments
Project Plan
Develop four virtual experiential learning assignments to allow students to virtually experience projects that were previously only possible in person. The assignments focus on allowing students to virtually collaborate to build and restructure essays, receive tangible feedback on persuasive speeches, turn their paper presentation poster into a robust online presentation, and simulate first-hand experience of what it is like to lead a team on a dangerous adventure.
Personnel
Faculty
- Assistant Professor of Adult Education & Safety Sciences
- Projects: Digital Poster and Forward - Leadership Simulation
- Core Curriculum Coordinator for the Department of Mass Communication
- Projects: Persuasive Speech
- Lecturer for the Department of English
- Projects: Interactive Essay
Administration
- Executive Director for Excellence in Transformative Teaching and Learning
- Executive Director of Student Leadership at University of Central Oklahoma
Support
The IDEA Team worked with the faculty and administration to create the products. This team of instructional technologists, developers, and data scientists designed, produced, and tested each project to ensure its quality and usefulness.
The University of Central Oklahoma gratefully acknowledges NASPA and Lumina Foundation for their support of the project, “Cost-Saving Innovations”, that resulted in this Cookbook.
Technology Targets
- A platform-agnostic approach to allow compatibility with various Learning Management Systems
- Use of open-source technology to increase reproducibility, when possible
- Technical capacity requirements for designing and building virtual experiential learning assignments
- Tiered examples included to assist in matching each institution’s technical capacity with their proper variation