Good afternoon and thank you for joining us for today's webinar behind the scenes of the hawks learning micro economics course.
My name is Danny Shapiro and I'm on the marketing team here at Hawks. Our speaker today is hawks learning zone Kelsey gamble.
As hawks as economics subject matter expert Kelsey oversees the development of the economics product line.
Kelsey received a Masters of Science in economics from Baylor University and has been published in the Journal of Asian business and economic studies.
We are excited that Kelsey is here to share this look behind the scenes. If you have any questions during the webinar, please enter them into the Q AMP a box and we will address them at the end of the talk. And on that note, I will hand it over to you, Kelsey.
Hi, everybody. Thanks for
Coming. I'm excited to show you what we've got here. Today we are going to be talking through
What hawks is all about what it looks like to build the core what our course where it looks like we're actually going to show you a preview of what we built and then talk through some of our noteworthy features.
So to give you background of hawks, I'm sure a lot of you probably haven't heard of hops before because we're new to the ECON scene. We've been around for over 35 years we have been a specialized in math. We're a educational course for our company that specializes an online course where
So we've done math for a long time. And then a few years ago jumped into English. And now this is our first jump into econ with principles of micro economics and our big philosophy is that were developed by educators and designed for students.
So as we've been building the course, like I said this, our first jumped into a whole new discipline.
And in doing so, a lot of what we've done is been driven by current instructors be that through surveys phone calls feedback and then a lot of our content has been built by current instructors.
We have over 80 contributors that have helped us build our product. And we know that we're building something that instructors want to use in the classroom because it's built by instructors.
So we've been to a couple trade shows and conferences. We went to see tree. This past year, I will be going again this year or 2019 and we're also going to be at the SSA a conference in January. So if you're there, we'd love to see you. Come, stop by our booth.
So my role. I'm the lead editor of economics here, which means I wear a bunch of different half
I am the subject matter expert for econ I'm the product manager I oversee a lot of the projects that we're doing. I get to work with a lot of contributors
I get to revise the content develop content and kind of get to have my hands and everything, which is really exciting and also get to work with a lot of current instructors.
So this is what our course where it looks like every single lesson and all of our products will look like this. We have our recommended learning path we start with learn then practice and certify
I'm going to walk you through more specifically what these means, but everything follows the same path.
So learn is where our instructional content lives. It's a multimedia rich presentation of the content in each lesson.
So when jumping into a new discipline we partnered with OpenStack
And their constant is really great. But we started to realize it's really text heavy and not as interactive and engaging for students as we'd like it to be. So we've been working a lot on content enhancements.
Here as an example of what one of our instructional content.
Screens looks like we've got the content and we're building out with a lot of interactive group activities, which is something that would be really cool for instructors to pull us in class to get the conversation going.
A lot of these bring it back to everyday life, connect it to what the students are doing and make these economic concepts more relatable and more tangible to them.
So for instance, this example changes not only occur across countries, but can occur between birth and even within families with a partner, talk about something you specialize it as a child and traded with a sibling or friends.
So something that's super easy to get students to start talking in class.
We also have a lot of on your own and interactive built into the instructional content. This one is a short answer where students can
fill it in. And they can print that out and that's another thing you can ask students bring into class, either as a check to see if they're actually reading the text interacting with the instructional content or it can be just another way to get the conversation going.
Another thing we have that pairs with our instructional content is a guided notebook. So this is a print resource that follows along with the instructional content and it prompts students to immediately apply what they're learning
It's got a ton of different features. Here's an example. This cross price elasticity of demand shows you a piece of what what are the pages looks like. This is the instructor edition with the SSL, then of course the students would not have the answers.
But we've got a lot of tables to fill and things that would be helpful study aids for them as they're coming back to it before finals.
And we've got a lot of on your own, that are new examples that aren't in the text that aren't in the instructional content, but a way for students to apply what they just learned to a new example.
Another thing is that every lesson in the guide a notebook includes the section micro economics and you, which is a way to connect the concepts that they just learned to students everyday lives.
As you know, you kind of so relevant, but a lot of times, students are intimidated by it or can't seem to connect the dots themselves.
So the more relevant. We can make it and more tangible. We can make it to them that this is something they encounter all the time, the more likely they're going to remember it, the more likely they're going to be interested in economics.
And enjoy coming to class. And then we also have a lot of graphing practice in our guide and notebooks, as many opportunities as we can, where we just give the students the axes and make them start from nothing and fully fleshed out fully arrive at an answer using graphing
So another thing we have our flashcards were verified creator with Quisling as you know Quisling is huge and amazing and has all these key terms and vocab and really great tools for students to use
But anyone can fill them out. Anyone can create vocab in them. So as a verified creator, you know that your students are getting actually what's the correct definition. So the last thing you want is for students and memorize something that's wrong.
So you know that you have that safe routers us at the beginning of every lesson we have this flashforward where they can jump right into the important terms and prime themselves or what's going to be important in the lesson.
And then also, at the end of every lesson we wrap up with that, again, to go over those teachers and there's a few different ways they can do that via flashcards play a game, they can get the words read aloud to them a bunch of different things.
So the next step on our learning path is practice and practices a risk free zone where students can interactive questions that test them on the material that they just learned
So this is what practice. Looks like we've got questions.
And what's really cool about practices. This is not actually graded.
And because it's not graded. We offer a lot of tutoring components here. We want to make sure that students are getting help when they need it and when they're confused. They're getting stopped before they learn something wrong.
So let's say a student looks at this question and they're so confused. They don't even know where to start. They could click on tutor down here in the bottom left corner.
Or if a student answers a question and correctly. They get explain an error, and they can click on that.
All of our questions have error specific feedback so we know what exactly student did wrong. And why so that we can stop them right at the start, if they're learning something wrong and make sure that they get it done correctly.
Then we also have step by step tutoring, we asked hint. And then we have solution. So if they just want to see what exactly the correct answer. How do I arrive at it.
Then another thing is all of our questions have an average of 20 to 25 different versions of them.
There's a few reasons. They do this one is that practice is just unique. Sometimes you just say to do something over and over until you get it down so they can click this, try similar button and just still just your different versions of the question.
Also, the questions show up in certify which I'll get into in a minute.
And questions could show us and web tests and quizzes and all these different places. So you want to make sure that students actually understand the underlying concepts and actually know how to apply it rather than just they remember what the correct answer was
So our next path is certified and certify is our mastery based approach. This is what is actually submitted for grade for the students and our default master level is 80% but you as an instructor could change that to whatever you would like
So here with 80% mastery. We've got to live so student could get at least two questions wrong or a maximum of two questions wrong and still get full credit
If a student and this is more than two questions. They're immediately put back into practice with a customized set of questions that go over the questions that they were getting incorrect.
And then they have those tutoring aids available to them again and certified. They don't have tutoring here. We want to make sure they actually understand the concepts that actually understand the material that they just learned
So a couple other things we have
We added a chapter zero to our table of contents. Like I said before, we are a massive company that's how we started. We have tons of mass products that have been
Used in the field and that are really great and thorough and so obviously we've got this really great content that is so helpful to economics that we decided to pull some of that in
And and a lot of surveys. We've done a lot of discussions we've had with current instructors, a lot of instructors have said it's really frustrating.
When students don't have the math foundation that they need to succeed in economics and that can be frustrating when you're trying to teach
A complicated concepts and the student is confused by cross multiplying. So we've set up this master view chapters. The beginning, you can see what those lessons are on the right.
Addition and subtraction, multiplication and division order of operations algebraic expressions presets linear equations graphing an area.
A lot of different areas that students would need to have a foundational level.
And as you know, students are coming into your classroom from all different playing field and you want to make sure that you can help level that for them and that they have the right foundation to succeed in your class.
Another thing that's cool is this master view is you as an instructor can easily create a diagnostic assessment.
That can test your students. And if a student demonstrates proficiency and a lesson. They will not have to actually take that and they'll only be focused on the areas where they need the extra help.
Another thing we've got coming as a textbook. So all of our instructional content currently is within the course where
And we're going to be building that into a print textbooks with those enhanced learn screens is all those interactive engagement boxes helpful hints for the resources, all those things. And that's expected fall 2019
Another thing we have is interactive graphing you'll see an example of this to the right as well.
This is a in practice where students can drag the line. And if you see the gray line. We've got the ghost line remains so students can see the effects of the change that they're playing around with
Another thing we're have is videos we're going to have those lesson level presentation style videos that go over the main concepts and of course things a student needs to learn as well as the example level videos to walk them through specific things
Then we also have checked chapter projects that are built by current instructors and are ready to go for you to just use in the classroom.
Then something that's really cool is we're really affordable our beta pricing through fall 2019 for the quarter is $30 the course where plus the printed graph guy to notebook would be $50 and then the guided notebook as a standalone would be $30
So we will be in beta through fall 2019 and then we'll be in full watch
So this is something you're interested in piloting in your classroom you can reach out to economics at hawks learning.com or if he likes to be a contributor and help build out this product. We would love to hear from you as well. And yes, you have any questions.
Alright, Kelsey. Thank you so much for that great overview. I want to remind our audience.
That you can find a question answer box, either at the top or bottom of your screen, depending on how you have your zoom displayed there on your computer, Kelsey. I, I was wondering if you could talk through a little bit about how you handle
The broad nature of this of principles course. Yeah. So anytime you're jumping
Into a new discipline. It's an introductory principle of course there's a lot to cover. Especially a lot of students probably walk in knowing nothing about economics.
So we have our table contents, you have 21 chapters and a lot of lessons that cover a whole range of topics that you as an instructor can pick and choose what you assigned to the students.
Another thing that's really cool is all of our Learn screens are fully customizable. You can remove a screen, you can add notes to something you can add an example that you really like you can add a YouTube video that you think really demonstrate something really well.
So you can actually create a course that hits on specifically what you want your students to know and also you can choose not to to do certain chapters are assigned certain lessons, too. So it's all up to the instructor, which is awesome.
And we have a few other questions coming in here.
We have one that is asking if it can be product can be synced with Canvas. And the answer to that is a dead. Yes.
Yeah, and
We think with other LM S is as well beyond canvas, and then we have another question here.
Asking if I can add individual feedback to a question that a student gets wrong and including a link to my own learning materials.
Yeah, that's a good question. Yeah, so you can create your own questions and I'm actually, I'm not 100% sure about editing the questions that we have in there. I can get back to you on that.
But I know you can create your own questions to add to the course that hit on specific tutoring or like let's say a specific
You. Let's say you add a specific screen to your lesson have a topic that you want to make sure it's covered, then you can write a question on that, but I will get back to you on that.
And when you're going through the the Learn material as well. There is a place where you can add in links videos additional resources to any lesson that you want to make sure that the students see even though they're working in our course where
Okay, let's see, we have another question from Joseph
Could we preview the notebook portion and see what it entails.
Yeah, so we have we have a sample notebook of a couple lessons and then we're about to have the full one ready and the next month or so. So I'll reach out to you after this
Yeah, we will reach out and send you a sample. Thank you for that question Justice
Okay.
Looks like I think that is most of the questions I've answered one or two. Additionally, on the side. And that brings us about up against our 20 minute time limit for today.
Kelsey, want to thank you again for all the information thank everybody that attended and watch the webinar today.
If you do have any other questions, you think of them later. You can always email economics at hawks learning com you can email the marketing team as well at marketing at hawks learning calm.
If you're watching this recorded session later and have a question perhaps you're out for break right now, please feel free to email us anytime in the future, and we will make sure to get back to you.
I'll be emailing out a link for everyone to view this webinar on demand, and I hope that you all have a great day.
Carsten I see your question here, and we will. We'll go back and forth with our on email with you just want to make sure you know we see your question.
Thanks, everybody, and take care
