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7 Strategies to Make Your Online Teaching Better. This GradHacker post is by Andrea Zellner, PhD candidate in Ed Tech/Ed Pysch at Michigan State University, @andreazellner There is no doubt that online education has arrived in Higher Education.

7 Strategies to Make Your Online Teaching Better

Each year, the numbers of colleges and universities offering online courses increases. There is certainly appeal for these types of courses: students can better fit them into busy schedules and traveling to campus is no longer required. What is Blended Learning? — Web Learning @ Penn State. EdTech Cheat Sheet Infographic. Understanding New Trends in Educational Technology Trying to keep up with all of the new buzzwords in the booming Educational Technology sector can leave you feeling like a kindergartner in a calculus class.

EdTech Cheat Sheet Infographic

Don't tell your teach, but we put together a little cheat sheet to keep you informed on what's happening inside and outside of today's most innovative schools. Think we're missing any major terms or trends? Let us know on Twitter. @GoBoundless Gamification? Virtual Classroom? Digital Storytelling? 1:1 Technology Providing every student with a laptop or tablet to make learning more individualized, increase independence and extend academics beyond the classroom.

Blended Learning Models — Web Learning @ Penn State. Beyond blended learning: Reaching every student. At the 2010 NCTIES conference in Raleigh, LEARN NC’s Bobby Hobgood delivered a presentation about blended learning. The archived session is available at the following link: Access to the archived session requires Microsoft Silverlight software.

If you don’t already have Silverlight installed, clicking on the link will prompt your browser to ask you if you’d like to download the software. Don't Confuse Technology With Teaching - Commentary. By Pamela Hieronymi This spring, Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced a $60-million venture to offer free classes online.

Don't Confuse Technology With Teaching - Commentary

Just last month the University of California at Berkeley said it would also join the effort. John Hennessy, president of Stanford, recently predicted that a technology "tsunami" is about to hit higher education. When justifying their decision to remove Teresa Sullivan as president of the University of Virginia, the Board of Visitors cited, in part, the need to ride this wave. Going Hybrid: Where’s a Newbie to Start? Blended Learning Toolkit. E-Learning and Constructivism. Pedagogy and Moodle. Let's sit back and really reflect on the pedagogy that is at the core of what we, as online educators, are trying to do.

Pedagogy and Moodle

Definition of Pedagogy One definition of pedagogy in Wiktionary says The profession of teaching The activities of educating, teaching or instructing Wikipedia has a much longer page on Pedagogy. At one point it said Pedagogy is the art or science of being a teacher, generally refers to strategies of instruction, or a style of instruction. Moodle in three short paragraphs The heart of Moodle is courses that contain activities and resources. There are a number of other tools that make it easier to build communities of learners, including blogs, messaging, participant lists etc, as well useful tools like grading, reports, integration with other systems and so on. For more about Moodle, see and particularly the main community “course” called Using Moodle. Social Constructionism as a Referent.

Competencies for Online Teaching Success (COTS) Welcome to YouTube! The location filter shows you popular videos from the selected country or region on lists like Most Viewed and in search results.To change your location filter, please use the links in the footer at the bottom of the page. Click "OK" to accept this setting, or click "Cancel" to set your location filter to "Worldwide". The location filter shows you popular videos from the selected country or region on lists like Most Viewed and in search results. To change your country filter, please use the links in the footer at the bottom of the page. Loading... Best Practices « SHSUOnline Blog. Welcome to the Best Practices for Teaching online or as we like to call it: Strategies for Success in your Online Course page.

Best Practices « SHSUOnline Blog

No matter what tool you use or technological journey you embark upon, is the method and not the medium that will help you ensure success in the online, face-to-face and hybrid courses you are teaching. These best practices/strategies will help you with organization, communication, time saving, assessment as well as many other areas. Just looking at this list of best practices, it is easy to understand how you might feel overwhelmed. In some cases, try adopting one or two of these strategies at a time and then include more the next time you teach this course (following semester).

We would rather you be very successful in key areas in your course than not successful at all because you were spread too thin. Record an Video Introduction for your Course Record an introduction video introducing yourself and the course organization. Employ a Syllabus Quiz. Seven Principles of Effective Teaching: A Practical Lens for Evaluating Online Courses. Note: This article was originally published in The Technology Source ( as: Charles Graham, Kursat Cagiltay, Byung-Ro Lim, Joni Craner, and Thomas M.

Seven Principles of Effective Teaching: A Practical Lens for Evaluating Online Courses

Duffy "Seven Principles of Effective Teaching: A Practical Lens for Evaluating Online Courses" The Technology Source, March/April 2001. Available online at The article is reprinted here with permission of the publisher. The "Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education," originally published in the AAHE Bulletin (Chickering & Gamson, 1987), are a popular framework for evaluating teaching in traditional, face-to-face courses.

The principles are based on 50 years of higher education research (Chickering & Reisser, 1993). A faculty inventory (Johnson Foundation, "Faculty," 1989) and an institutional inventory (Johnson Foundation, "Institutional," 1989) based on these principles have helped faculty members and higher-education institutions examine and improve their teaching practices. Conclusion References. Teachers Guide to Blended Learning. " A blended learning approach combines face to face classroom methods with computer-mediated activities to form an integrated instructional approach.

Teachers Guide to Blended Learning

In the past, digital materials have served in a supplementary role, helping to support face to face instruction.For example, a blended approach to a traditional, face to face course might mean that the class meets once per week instead of the usual three-session format. Learning activities that otherwise would have taken place during classroom time can be moved online.... " I have chosen for you the above introducation from weblearning to set the floor for the infographic below which has some amazing data and facts about blended learning. read and share .Click to enlarge the image.