Strategies for engagement in online courses | Dietz-Uhler | Journal of Teaching and Learning with Technology. The PDF file you selected should load here if your Web browser has a PDF reader plug-in installed (for example, a recent version of Adobe Acrobat Reader). If you would like more information about how to print, save, and work with PDFs, Highwire Press provides a helpful Frequently Asked Questions about PDFs. Alternatively, you can download the PDF file directly to your computer, from where it can be opened using a PDF reader. To download the PDF, click the Download link above. Fullscreen Fullscreen Off Refbacks There are currently no refbacks. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. U.S. Schools Need More STEM Training, Better Broadband. CIO — U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan on Friday renewed the administration's call for super-fast broadband connections in schools and a greater focus on education in the STEM subjects of science, technology, engineering and math.
In a video address to participants in Maker Camp, an online summer camp for teenagers, Duncan hailed the virtual program, saying that "it shows the power of online learning. " STEM and ConnectED Top White House Agenda Duncan's message underscores two initiatives the administration has undertaken, one to improve STEM education and another, ConnectED, that the White House launched in June with a goal of connecting 99 percent of the nation's schools and libraries to high-speed broadband service.
"President Obama and I are both excited about the future of science, technology, engineering and math education -- the STEM fields, for short," Duncan said. Schools Have Need for Internet Speed Tell Your Friends That STEM Is Cool Continue Reading. Growing Bipartisan Support for ConnectED. Last week, the President issued a new challenge for our nation – one that families, businesses, school districts and the federal government can rally around together – to connect virtually every student with access to cutting-edge technology as part of a competitive, 21st century education.
The new ConnectED initiative he announced was a bold, transformative vision for America’s schools, ensuring that they have access to high-speed broadband and wireless internet to expand connectivity to more schools and libraries over the next 5 years. ConnectED will bring high-speed Internet within reach for tens of millions of America’s kids – and with it, it empowers more teachers and schools to harness the power of digital learning. As President Obama said in Mooresville, NC last week, “these are the tools that our children deserve.”
Connecting schools “will better prepare our children for the jobs and challenges of the future and it will provide them a surer path into the middle class. . Verizon. Www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/docs/connected_fact_sheet.pdf. PCHS students ‘engaged’ with iPads - MSGR.com: Local News. Note: Students were interviewed the second week of class, when they had just finished applying social studies to their projects. Jessica Carbahal – freshman Project focus question: How does fashion represent beliefs and values of American time periods? “I’m looking at the Civil War, 1920w, 1960s and 1980s.” What she’s learned so far about fashion: “I’ve learned about corsets and that they used to wear them too tight, and that hoop skirts made bruises and cut them.” How she will incorporate other core subjects: “For science, I will talk about fabric types, and for math, I’m going to make a dress on the iPad.”
What she’s learned about technology: “The iPad is interesting, but it can get frustrating at times because you have to go through a lot of apps and websites…. What she hopes to accomplish: “To show our generation how fashion has upgraded over the years.” Brandon Farley – sophomore Project focus question: How can a new sports community center be built in our area?
J.R. "J.R. Dissertations at a Distance: Students’ Perceptions of Online Mentoring in a Doctoral Program | Kumar. Swapna Kumar, Melissa Johnson and Truly Hardemon VOL. 27, No. 1 The purpose of this research was to identify online mentoring strategies used to mentor doctoral students through their dissertation in an online doctoral program. During semi-structured interviews, students (n = 9) reflected on the challenges faced when communicating with their mentors using online technologies, the usefulness of online mentoring strategies, and their own approaches that were instrumental in the successful completion of their dissertations. Themes in the findings specific to the online mentoring of dissertations that were uncovered are discussed in the context of prior research on best practices for dissertation supervision. Le but de cette étude était d’identifier des stratégies de mentorat en ligne utilisées pour conseiller les étudiants au doctorat par le biais de leur thèse dans un programme de doctorat en ligne.
Graduate Student Supervision or Mentoring Online Mentoring Participants Data Analysis. Administrator to lead shift toward 'technology-rich' classrooms. Nathan Heller: Is College Moving Online? Gregory Nagy, a professor of classical Greek literature at Harvard, is a gentle academic of the sort who, asked about the future, will begin speaking of Homer and the battles of the distant past. At seventy, he has owlish eyes, a flared Hungarian nose, and a tendency to gesture broadly with the flat palms of his hands.
He wears the crisp white shirts and dark blazers that have replaced tweed as the raiment of the academic caste. His hair, also white, often looks manhandled by the Boston wind. Where some scholars are gnomic in style, Nagy piles his sentences high with thin-sliced exposition. (“There are about ten passages—and by passages I simply mean a selected text, and these passages are meant for close reading, and sometimes I’ll be referring to these passages as texts, or focus passages, but you’ll know I mean the same thing—and each one of these requires close reading!”) Nagy has published no best-sellers. But MOOC s are controversial, and debate has grown louder in recent weeks.
What is ConnectED? Ed. note: To highlight the importance of connected classrooms, the White House held a virtual "show and tell" with three schools that are embracing technology and digital learning. Watch the full hangout at wh.gov/show-and-tell. President Barack Obama and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, right, talk with students while visiting a classroom at the Yeadon Regional Head Start Center in Yeadon, Pa., Nov. 8, 2011. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza) Preparing America’s students with the skills they need to get good jobs and compete with countries around the world relies increasingly on interactive, individualized learning experiences driven by new technology.
But today, millions of students lack access to the high-speed broadband internet that supports this sort of learning technology. The fact is, schools without internet access put our students at a disadvantage. Here’s how ConnectED works: Upgrading connectivity Training teachers. Www.ncolr.org/jiol/issues/pdf/12.1.1.pdf. Toward a Permeable, Interconnected Higher Education System | Cathy Sandeen. In my former role as a dean at the University of California Los Angeles, I helped thousands of typical American college students gain the knowledge and skills needed to become informed, engaged citizens and progress in their chosen careers. But as the dean of UCLA Extension, these "typical" students were a diverse group of nontraditional learners searching for ways to earn postsecondary degrees and credentials, often while juggling family responsibilities and jobs that meant frequent stops and re-starts for their postsecondary experience -- very different from the first-time college students attending UCLA straight out of high school but representative of the current face of American higher education.
We strived mightily at UCLA to help nontraditional students achieve their goals, whether it was to enter and complete a bachelor's degree program after many previous attempts to gain a degree or to earn a specialized certificate or credential needed for career advancement. Automated Teaching Machine: A Graphic Introduction to the End of Human Teachers. (Image: Arthur King)"The machine lasts indefinitely. It gets no wrinkles, no arthritis, no hardening of the arteries . . . Two machines replace 114 men that take no coffee breaks, no sick leaves, no vacations with pay," proclaims the watch-twirling, hard-hearted CEO Wallace V. Whipple in a particularly prescient 1964 episode of The Twilight Zone. Despite the emotional pleas of the workers and their union, Whipple robo-sources 250,000 factory jobs to the "X109B14 modified, transistorized, totally automated machine. " Mr. Nowhere has Mr. Now, it's time to see the next phase in the corporate takeover of public education - automation.
Needless to say, Mr. From resistance to acceptance and use of technology in academia | Matrosova Khalil | Open Praxis. Faculty Backlash Grows Against Online Partnerships - Technology. By Steve Kolowich Many professors recognize that online education is changing the landscape of academe. But faculty members at several colleges are making it clear that they will not be steamrolled. Philosophy professors at San Jose State University last week wrote an open letter saying they refused to use material from an edX course, taught by a famous Harvard University professor, for fear that California State University administrators were angling for a way to eventually gut their department.
"Let's not kid ourselves; administrators at the CSU are beginning a process of replacing faculty with cheap online education," they wrote. At Duke University a week earlier, an undergraduate-faculty council voted down a push by the provost's office to offer small online courses for credit through 2U, a company that sells an online platform and support services to colleges. Under Mohammad H. "How different is the basic algebra course taught in Boston or California or wherever?
" A Brewing Debate. Universities debate credit for free online courses. Www.christenseninstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Is-K-12-Blended-Learning-Disruptive.pdf. New School: Two Apps That Let Teachers Remix Lessons Like DJs. Teaching is changing for the better. Instead of one teacher delivering one lesson for one hour to one room full of students, the ideal is now for teachers to enable each student to discover the right mix of lessons that works for him or her anytime, anywhere. Two new free Web platforms, OpenCurriculum and Activate Instruction aim to put teachers in charge of the digital evolution of classrooms and shape the future of education.
In tandem with the growth of laptops and tablets in classrooms, Web platforms like these are enabling teachers to work more like DJs, selecting and creating experiences with an infinite pile of bytes at their disposal. At least some of the time, the classroom of the future may resemble a silent disco, with each student plugged in and grooving on a playlist partly of their own devising. Sharing Nicely Most teachers have file folders and flash drives full of material that they use to generate lessons year after year.
One-to-One Learning. Regulatory Reciprocity Gets a $2.3-Million Boost - Wired Campus. The Lumina Foundation has awarded a $2.3-million grant to a partnership of organizations hoping to create a single set of standards that states can use to regulate colleges—and especially their online offerings. The effort, led by the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education, is intended to establish “a quality-assurance process that’s unbound by state lines” and that will help students and institutions trust degrees and online programs from colleges in other states, according to the commission’s president, David A. Longanecker, who is a former assistant secretary for postsecondary education at the U.S.
Department of Education. Return to Top. MOOCs aren’t the only kind of online course stirring debate on college campuses. Over the past couple of months, massive open online course (MOOC) providers have been the focus of dissension on some college campuses. But now online learning company 2U is getting some pushback of its own. Last fall, the company, which has partnered with several leading universities for online masters degree programs that feature small classes and live instruction, announced a new for-credit online program for undergraduates called Semester Online. But three of the 10 schools that had originally committed to the program have since backed out. Last month, Duke revealed that it was withdrawing from the program after a faculty vote against the program .
And, according to Inside Higher Ed , Vanderbilt and University of Rochester have also pulled out as of Friday, with Wake Forest sitting on the fence. Other issues led Vanderbilt and University of Rochester to back away from the 2U consortium. Thinking about Accreditation in a Rapidly Changing World. Online learning has provided a platform for rethinking delivery models, yet much of accreditation is not designed to account for these new approaches. Paul J. LeBlanc is President of Southern New Hampshire University. He is Chairperson of the Council for Adult and Experiential Learning Board of Directors. Enormous change is under way in higher education, driven by a perfect storm of crisis (around cost, access, quality, and funding), technological innovation and what that innovation makes possible, the growing presence and influence of for-profit providers, abuses (of various kinds), opportunity, and workforce development needs in a global and technological context.
Any one of those challenges might fill an agenda for a commissioners' retreat or a small conference, but accreditors now wrestle with all of these various forces across a broad landscape of change and urgency. Online learning has disaggregated the model. Credentials. Non-Institutional Faculty. The Integrated Institution. In school iPad project, L.A. might need to tap funding for keyboards. Students in Karen Finkel's class at Broadacres Elementary School… (Bob Chamberlin / Los Angeles…) Los Angeles school officials are acknowledging a new looming cost in a $1-billion effort to provide iPads to every student: keyboards.
Officials so far have not budgeted that expense, but they said the wireless keyboards are recommended for students when they take new state standardized tests. If keyboards were to be provided for all 650,000 students, the cost could be more than $38 million at current retail prices. It's not clear if the district plans to provide keyboards for all, and officials were not prepared to estimate the cost during a meeting last week of a Board of Education committee that is tracking the iPad initiative. Board member Monica Ratliff, who chairs the panel, said the district needed to be transparent about such expenses. "It's important that the public is told of any additional costs that the district can predict," she said later. L.A. L.A. schools Supt. European Journal of Open, Distance and E-Learning. For Rural Teachers, Support Is a Click Away.
When to Talk, When to Chat: Student Interactions in Live Virtual Classrooms - Journal of Interactive Online Learning. Campus libraries embrace future with technology - eCampus News. Calculator Use on Exams to Shift With Common Core. Want scientifically literate children? [VIDEO] Neil Armstrong Middle School in Forest Grove preparing to launch ambitious iPad program. Evolution of the Mobile LMS: mLearning for the new-age learner | Learn to Suceed - Bits and Bytes of e-learning by G-Cube. Amplify's Joel Klein Talks Tablets, Big Data, and Disappearing Textbooks. The perils of online college learning. For St. Paul schools, Dell an early favorite for district tech plan. MOOCs May Not Be So Disruptive After All - Technology.
Get Ready: MOOCs Are Coming to K-12. Will Gaming Save Education, or Just Waste Time? 7 Horrible, Awful, No-Good Reasons to Enroll in an Online College. 12 Sure-Fire Ways to Make People Hate Your eLearning. Online charter school CEO indicted for misused funds. Do laws need tightening? Justice Dept. Opens Investigation of Online Program at Tiffin U. - Administration.
Cal State Offers Online Courses Across Campuses to Ease a Bottleneck - The Ticker. All Virginia students to use computers for standardized tests. TEALS transforms computer science education in Bellevue - Bellevue Reporter. Apps are the new flashcards for kids. Administrator to lead shift toward 'technology-rich' classrooms. Learning on Chrome standard - Beloit Daily News: News. iPads create learning experience for students, teachers at Evansville Lutheran | POLL. Schools getting smart in use of smartphones | Education. Teachers share, learn new e-tricks at 'Padcamp' Teaching goes high-tech to boost achievement in R.I. schools. Montgomery students will find new technologies in the classroom. A MOOC Star Defects, at Least for Now - Technology. Few Surprises in NSF Report on San Jose State U. Test of Udacity Courses - Wired Campus.
MOOCs being embraced by top U.S. universities. Google MOOC site: 'More of the same'? - eCampus News. Shimon Schocken: The self-organizing computer course. Daphne Koller: What we're learning from online education.