Title: FLO MicroCourse - From Digital Literacy to Digital Fluency OER

Transferring in-class classroom activities that promote learning into activities that are effective in the online learning environment is challenging. This demands a high level of digital literacy, or comfort in evaluating, piloting, and adopting new technologies into your toolbox of educational resources. This one-week micro-course will demonstrate that technology is something that should be welcomed into the classroom to allow an instructor a growing repertoire of media that stimulates teaching and learning. Incorporating digital tools in the classroom also increases students’ digital literacy while they complete activities and assignments.

Your FLO facilitator for this micro-course is Ken Harmel. Ken Harmel is a family guy working as a senior learning designer at the University of the Fraser Valley (UFV). He began teaching in the tech sector and then spent 13 years in Japan honing his teaching skills with Japan Airlines Academy. Intrigued by the potential of distance education, he acquired his M.Ed. on that topic and thus began his pursuit of the elusive perfect online course. Ken has been a member of the BCcampus community for years and contributes much of his success at UFV to the professional development that BCcampus offers.

Please Note: This FLO MicroCourse is an asynchronous one-week course with one synchronous session on Tuesday, October 19, 2021, from 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. (Pacific Time).

Category: Self-Serve Open Educational Resources — Open Educational Resources for you to browse, copy and download.

Role: Member — Members generally have less privileges within a course.

Section 1
  Announcements
  Student book: Take the course content offline
  Q & A Cafe
Start here
  Meet the facilitator, Ken
  About this FLO MicroCourse
  Daily overview: Five steps in five days
  Objectives and learning outcome
  Clarifying the term “Digital Literacy”
  When do we know we are digitally fluent?
  Activity (Padlet): Recommend an educational technology to this FLO community
Day 1
  Activity 1: Assess your mindset when adopting a new digital tool
  Reflective journal for Activity 1
  Optional chat for Activity 1
Day 2
  Day 2: Outlining relevant cognitive bias
  Activity 2 Journal: Check and reflect on your biases
  Synchronous lunch session - Tuesday, [DATE AND TIME]
Day 3
  4 Ways to Overcome Your Biases
  Activity 3: Send an email to your future self
Day 4
  Activity 4 (For a badge!): Assess a tool for best fit and share your results in a blog or vlog
Day 5
  Activity 5: Activity 1 Take 2 – Assess your new mindset when adopting a new digital tools
  Bibliography and recommended readings