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OER Commons. Make money teaching online - Kim's Columns – Reviews and Advice on All Things Digital. It’s true that money-making scams are very common online. The good news is there are perfectly legitimate ways to make money over the Internet. Many don’t even involve eBay. If you have experience as an English language teacher or tutor, you can make extra income teaching English online to Asians, South Americans and other people around the world. It has, in fact, suddenly become an incredible growth industry. Most of the teachers providing this service work part time from home, and – thanks to broadband Internet video-conferencing – it doesn’t matter if that home is in Cody, WY, or Miami, FL.

Talk about globalization! In the early days of teaching English online, freelancers had to hustle to find their own clients. Online language services all work a little differently. Once you’re accepted at Verbalplanet.com , for instance, you hang your shingle up in the marketplace and hope that students like your profile and experience. To continue reading sign in or join Kim's Club. How To Teach Online - eLearning Help. Effective Online Teaching & Training | Where Online Trainers Increase Connection, Engagement and Enjoyment. Free Social Teaching and Learning Network focused solely on education. MediaWiki. Drupal.org | Community plumbing. Discussion Boards. Save Yourself from Drowning in Online Interaction. Rita-Marie Conrad Instructional Designer Florida State University Introduction "My email is killing me! Do you know how often students send me email?

" "I can easily get 100 emails a day. "And it's not just email. "Does anyone realize how much effort these online courses take??? " Such is a compilation of comments I hear from the faculty I assist in my role as an instructional designer of distance learning courses. As we all know, distance education in one form or another has existed for decades, but the level of interaction possible with distance education delivery modes such as print or one-way audio or video, has been limited in the past. The newest delivery mode of distance education utilizes the Internet and provides increased interaction opportunities through multimedia learning environments in which a learner can utilize on-line conferencing, electronic mail, bulletin board, and "chat room" facilities to interact and collaborate with the instructor as well as other learners.

Email. Effective Online Facilitation. Quick Guides series - Australian Flexible Learning Framework. E-Learning Centre. E-Learning Centre: Facilitating online learning. This page provides links to some resources concerned with facilitating online discussions and online learning in general. Articles in date order, most recent first. Submit a new Library item The use of asynchronous discussion: creating a text of talk "Asynchronous discussion allows students to read and respond "out-of-time. " This form of online discussion, as experienced in a college literacy course, creates a text of talk that has the potential to be reflective given the freedom participants have in their response time. However, students often struggle with reflection. Added: 8 July 2005 Reviewer's Note: This article shares Alison's experiences with asynchronous discussion and embeds them within the context of current teaching and assessment. top Participation in online courses - how essential is it?

Added: 17 January 2004 Discussion schedyke: January 19-28, 2004; Summing-up: January 29-30, 2004 Effective Online Facilitation Added: 7 January 2004 Also available as a PDF Added: 23 October 2002. International Forum of Educational Technology & Society. CITE Journal. The CITE Journal is an online, peer-reviewed journal, established and jointly sponsored by five professional associations (AMTE, ASTE, NCSS-CUFA, CEE, and SITE). This is the only joint venture of this kind in the field of teacher education. Each professional association has sole responsibility for editorial review of articles in its discipline: Technology and Science Education (ASTE) Technology and Mathematics Education (AMTE) Technology and Social Studies Education (NCSS-CUFA) Technology and English Education (CEE) Educational Technology: General (SITE) The CITE Journal has a unique Commentary feature, which permits readers to author short responses to articles published in a commentary strand linked to the article.

In addition to its discipline-based journals, CITE Journal has a General Educational Technology section and three cross-disciplinary sections: Editorial, Current Practice, and Seminal Articles. Facilitating Online Discussions, by Donna Raleigh | TTT. Vol. 7, No. 3: November 15, 2000 Keys to Facilitating Successful Online Discussions by Donna Raleigh, Coordinator of Technical Training and Instructional Technology, Media Development Center, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire "This is fun!

" Last week a student new to online discussions posted these words. Her class meets via distance education once a week and, for the remainder of the time, the students and faculty share ideas in a discussion area in WebCT. Of course, the purposes for online discussions extend far beyond "fun. " What is an online discussion? First, lets establish a common understanding of what is meant by the term "online discussions.

" Uses for online discussions Online discussions are particularly useful for instructors facilitating online courses and for faculty who teach to remote sites via interactive television. The actual application of online discussions can be divided into two lists. Share knowledge. Planning Considerations What "netiquette" will be observed? Full Circle Associates - communications, project management, facilitation, and online community and collaboration spaces. Online Community Toolkit. Becoming a More Successful Intentional Learner - Conforming. @ The Training Place, Inc. - Learning, Events, Research, Products, Services, and Intelligence for Adaptive Learning Intelligence and Personalized E-Learning - Located in Arizona.

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