The Digital Learning College: A Catalyst for Success

1. The Digital Learning College:A Catalyst for Success Lewis Burke, Dean Workforce Solutions Bowling Green Technical College

2. The Digital Learning College Elevating education by employing digital learning to meet the diverse needs of 21st Century students.

3. The Digital Learning College • Technology * (Superior instruction + strong digital content) = High Achievement • Reach more students • Unique opportunity • Any time, place, or pace Forging new pathways to success for all students

4. The Virtual Microscope

5. Now IS the Time • Student tablet ownership has tripled • CINCH Science/Math all digital curriculum • Leading Education by Advancing Digital (LEAD) • Technological competency a requirement • Challenge: switch to digital texts within 5 years

6. Digital Textbooks • Florida school districts required to Go Digital by 2015-2016 • eBook partnership major publishers • Law requires publishers to go digital by2020 • FCC Digital Textbook Playbook

7. What do students say? • Access to courses poses difficulties(37%) • Students not properly prepared (52%) • Online learning has become standard (57%) • Increase in use of technology devices for academic purposes • 9% tablet ownership • 57% smart phone • 29% digital reading device

8. Clinical Tools

9. Digitally Empowered Leaners • Technology • iPad, iPod touch, iPhones, Android…. • 400% increase in tablet ownership by students • Widely AvailableContent • Online Virtual Schools In Multiple formats!

10. Interactive Education • Apple app store • 49K education apps for iPad • 88K education apps for iPhone • Intel AppUp • 654 education apps

11. It’s Not about Access! • Transform students from passive audience to active participants! What motivates students? Use “social interactions in situational context

12. What Simulation Based Learning Offers • Intense experiences: difficult to obtain in real life • Repeatable learning opportunities • Freedom to Fail • Accommodation for a range of learner abilities • Complex decision making under conditions of uncertainty, dynamism, and risk

13. Interactive FORK Lift Training

14. Advantages • Customized learning • Improved content mastery • Immediate feedback • Situational learning • Flexibility – anytime/anywhere • Reduced learning cyles

15. Mobile Apps – Where do we fit in • Lack of Post-Secondary Content • Supplemental Instruction • Developmental education • Lack face-to-face classroom content • Many “support apps” – few “learning” apps

16. Precision Measurement

17. Actions Speak Louder than Words • Aircraft maintenance • 60% reduction in training time • Anesthesiology residents • 28% time reduction • 48% performance improvement • Troubleshooting: 7 years versus 16 weeks

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19. “abilities” of simulation based learning • Repeatability • Portability • Transferability • Adaptability • Alterability • Applicability

20. Immersive Apps • Microscope • Bunsen burner • Math app • Nursing (Insulin injection/Sterile Tray) • Precision Measurement • Warehouse Picker • Culinary Arts App (development) • Fork-truck Safety (development)

21. Open Discussion