As you may have seen yesterday, I mentioned that SITE Interactive 2023 was happening and that I had looked through the schedule to find the K-12 distance, online, and blended learning session.  The final one I wanted to blog about was:

Applying R2D2/C3PO, a Research-based, Validated Instructional Design Model in Teaching Practice

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1. Ann Armstrong
   Northcentral University
2. Jessica Schoumaker
   National University
3. Kathy Tummino
   National University

Abstract: Out of the COVID-19 pandemic and the precipitous move to remote learning, new approaches to online and blended learning are becoming increasingly accepted and demanded by teachers and students. New instructional design models, instructional strategies, and learning activities are being put into practice in schools. These approaches provide for the ability to simultaneously teach students in the physical classroom and online. New professional development models help teachers effectively deliver online learning fostering student engagement in a collaborative environment. Significant gains were made in understanding how to design and deliver online synchronous, asynchronous, and blended learning based on teacher experiences during the COVID-19 shut down of traditional classes. Researchers are now able to leverage the lessons learned with new and updated research models, such as Armstrong’s R2D2/C3PO, being applied in practice that will help optimize future education.

Topic

• Beyond Emergency Remote Teaching: Supporting Learning and Engagement in Online and Blended Environments

There were two more I was trying to hit during the same slot, so I was able to make it back from the final 15 minutes.  When I arrived in the room, they had participants in breakout rooms and were already half way through the activity.  Within three or four minutes they brought everyone back and began to debrief from the activity they had been doing.  As I wasn’t there for the breakout instructions, I didn’t fully appreciate the comments back in the debrief.  One observation that I made was that almost all of the comments were focused on higher education or learning with adults.

Once they got back to the slides, they talked a bit about the critical incident technique and had the participants respond to a series of questions about the model that they had just undertaken.

At the end they shared this article – https://www.igi-global.com/chapter/r2d2c3po-video-conferencing-instructional-strategies-and-learning-activities/315812 – which it seems that the presentation was focused on.