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5 Tools & Websites for Online Teachers - Online Education Blog. Brainstorm in Progress. Course Signals - Stoplights for Student Success. Research has shown that messages sent by instructors using the communication system Course Signals, inspire and motivate students who are not utilizing their time in class.

Course Signals - Stoplights for Student Success

These messages provide early intervention and may improve student performance by as much as a whole letter grade. Course Signals can also help failing students improve their grade and aid in the retention of students who are considering dropping. This communication system can help students be more successful in your courses. Transformative leadership. Sites - ePortfolios with GoogleApps. Learning Through Digital Media. OCD Vol. 8 – Discussions. Web20forschoolleaders. Review of the Coursera Human Computer Interaction Course. I’ve now finished the Coursera Human Computer Interaction Course.

Review of the Coursera Human Computer Interaction Course

As I await my final grade, I reflect on my experience, on the statistics on student numbers, and on how the platform can develop. It’s been a wonderfully wide-ranging course, spanning the whole design process. Participants have learned needfinding and observation techniques, how to carry out rapid prototyping, principles for effective interface and visual design, and a repertoire of strategies for evaluating interfaces. The scope has been a real delight and Scott Klemmer’s lectures have been brilliant. Today Scott Klemmer, in his concluding message to class participants, shared some statistics on how people have been engaging with the course: 29,105 students watched video(s)6,853 submitted quiz(zes)2,470 completed an assignment791 completed all 5 assignments (Assuming that anyone who submitted a quiz or assignment also watched videos:) Of the number of people who watched video(s): 23.55% submitted one or more quizzes.

Butler e-Learn. OCD Vol. 8 – Discussions. Allthingslearning. LEARNing!

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Actually, it’s about education, training and LEARNing. It’s for educators and teachers who are interested in making a real difference to the lives of their students, their colleagues and their organisations – basically, people who are interested in “doing business” differently in education. People in education are often divided into two categories – “the thinkers” and “the doers”.

We are also grouped into categories based on who we do business with – primary, secondary, tertiary. DrEducation: International Higher Education Blog by Rahul Choudaha, PhD. Stephen's Web ~ Stephen's Web. Why We Need HASTAC (and PhD Lab) Now More Than Ever. An important new study by the British Library and JISC, begun in 2009 with 17,000 doctoral students surveyed from over 70 higher education institutions, was just published by Researchers of Tomorrow, focusing on doctoral studentsborn between 1982 and 1994.

Why We Need HASTAC (and PhD Lab) Now More Than Ever

The study underscores the importance of "learning the future together," as we say at HASTAC, and is one of the reasons why Duke is starting a new Ph.D. Lab in Digital Knowledge in the Fall. The key issues in this study are ones that motivate both the HASTAC project, begun in 2002, and the new PhD Lab I'll be co-directing here at Duke and that will have a constant, consistent public interface to extend far beyond Duke.

Is this the Beginning of a Sea Change in Higher Ed? UPDATE: It turns out this was not the beginning of a sea change. See post above. Today twelve heavy-hitting research universities announced their intent to join the small, but rapidly-growing, ranks of institutions that provide Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs). E-Literate - What We Are Learning About Online Learning...Online. Effective instruction is achieved by design. Immersing Ourselves. This was posted by Making Thinking Visible on their Facebook wall earlier today: Changes in our ability to access information and engage in non-school based vehicles for acquiring information are pushing schools and educators to think beyond the delivery of information as their prime role.

Immersing Ourselves

It really resonated with me, even though I’d like to replace “acquiring information” with “learning.” While there are a growing number of people in our profession that are beginning to “engage in non-school based vehicles for acquiring information,” there are still too many, especially in leadership positions, who don’t have a clue. It’s not even on the radar. Just another WordPress.com site. Educational Insanity – You either love a good dichotomy or you don’t.

This is about online learning, mostly in higher education.

Educational Insanity – You either love a good dichotomy or you don’t.

Especially in the wake of the UVA fiasco, I’ve been pondering online learning and the term “MOOC” (massively open online course), which I believe has been co-opted from folks like George Siemens, Dave Cormier, and Steven Downes. Those guys taught the Connectivism MOOC in 2008 and, most recently, the Change11 MOOC. Here’s a bit of a history of their courses. Dave Cormier made the video below in December 2010: In a similar vein, though clearly with their own spin and innovations, Jim Groom et al. have been offering ds106 (digital storytelling) as a MOOC in recent years.

Then, along came the folks at Coursera and Udacity and Udemy and… It’s unclear if the founders of these entities explicitly adopted the MOOC terminology or if the “mainstream” media applied the term to those outfits. So, what we have, essentially, are two VERY different kinds of MOOCs. Turning Back the Clock on Lifelong Learning: The Paradox of MOOCs.

Turning Back the Clock on Lifelong Learning: The Paradox of MOOCs Massive Open Online Learning has certainly been making big waves in higher education this year, but the question is whether it’s turning back the clock on learner-centered learning.

Turning Back the Clock on Lifelong Learning: The Paradox of MOOCs

Photo by Tom McNemar. Within the higher education community 2012 may well be known as the “year of online learning.” Seemingly legitimized now by the embrace of elite institutions like Harvard and MIT through EdX and the Coursera partnership with Stanford, Princeton and others, online learning and the rise of the MOOC dominates the popular and professional literature. Those unwilling to accept this “disruptive innovation” are seen as modern Luddites whose static, cognitive world view simply will not encompass the power of teaching and learning through technology. Rooted in Carl Rogers’ humanistic psychology and Malcolm Knowles andragogy, the heart of lifelong learning is the learner themselves from a holistic perspective. Tags: Administrator.