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Hendrick Best Practices for Adult Learners Conference: Developing an online orientation for World Campus students. 5/16/2011
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Penn State World Campus
New Student Orientation
Richard Brungard
Providing Learner Support
An Orientation in 3 phases
Developing a sense of connectedness between the learners and the institution is a critical success factor for distance learning programs .
1. Webinar
2. Website
3. Online course
Reasons for providing a range of learner support services of different types and at different stages of a program include the need to assist with learner recruitment, the need to mazimize learner retention, to provide for learners' demands for support, to help in overcoming learners' feelings of isolation and the need to nurture learners who may not have participated in formal education for some time.
Dowling, 2006
Mills, 2003; Rowntree, 1992; Simpson, 2002
The First Year Seminar
What do you feel online learners need in an orientation?
What have we overlooked?
Questions?
Studies confirm that student who enrolled in first-year seminars tend to complete more credit hours, earn higher cumulative grade point averages, and return to the institution at higher rates than student who did not enroll in such first-term courses
Cuseo, 1991; Davis, 1992; Fidler, 1986
Webinar Topics
SmarterMeasure measures:
- New Student Orientation
- Financing your education
- Benefits for military students
- Transferring credits to Penn State
- Library services
- Student Aid
- Time management
- Overview of ANGEL
- etc...
-Learning Styles
-Reading Rate & Recall
-Technical Competency
-Technical Knowledge
-Typing Speed and Accuracy
-Life Factors
- Time
- Place
- Reason
- Resources
- Skills
-Personal Attributes
- Academic Attributes
- Help Seeking
- Persistance
- Procrastination
- Time Management
- Locus of Control