EDpuzzle. Illinois Online Network: Educational Resources. Like the facilitator, the online student possesses unique qualities.
The online students of today consist primarily of working people who are trying to better their opportunities. This however is changing, as more and more young and older people become aware of the online model. The traditional school will never go away, but the virtual classroom is a significant player in today’s educational community. Corporations are using the online model to train technical professionals while private and public universities redefine the world as their markets. The market for students is expanding rapidly. Be open minded about sharing life, work, and educational experiences as part of the learning process.
How Usable Is Your Online Course Content? » Online College Search. The worlds of web design and online learning are interconnected in many ways.
As an instructional designer, I work to ensure that courses are effective not only in terms of online navigation and working links, but also in the presentation of meaningful content and interaction. Not all websites are created equal – some have much more helpful layouts and information than others – and it’s a similar situation with online courses. Just as web designers consider the “user experience” when creating new web pages, you should consider “learner experience” when creating new materials for your online course. A recent article from UXMag.com, geared toward web design topics, caught my attention with the “User Experience Honeycomb” developed by Peter Morville to guide designers in the creation of “useful, usable, engaging content.” With its seven related facets, it could be a helpful decision-making resource for instructional designers and instructors creating activities for online courses. Education is/as a platform. In a kind of dog bites man story, the Chronicle reported earlier this week on a study that indicates that "many professors use interactive tools ineffectively in online courses.
" Really? Just "online courses"? Is that meant to suggest they use them effectively in face-to-face courses or just that they don't use them there? Specifically the study indicates "most professors relied on text-based assignments and materials. Blended Learning - 147 Resources. Cultivating More Autonomous, Motivated Learners. April 4, 2012 By: Maryellen Weimer, PhD in Teaching Professor Blog Autonomous learners.
What are they? Who are they? And, do we have any of them in our classes? But would we know one when we see one? Most students don’t have this love of and commitment to the kind of learning that happens in college classrooms. It’s a short survey, containing just 12 items. Do our students know the difference between autonomous and dependent learners? Do you have class time to devote to an activity like this? Index. Manifesto for Online Teaching. The manifesto for teaching online is intended to stimulate ideas about creative online teaching.
It was written by teachers and researchers in the field of online education, in connection with the MSc in E-learning programme at the University of Edinburgh. It attempts to rethink some of the orthodoxies and unexamined truisms surrounding the field. Each point is deliberately interpretable, and this page is a starting point for some of those interpretations.
If you are working with the manifesto, or part of it, put a comment on our manifesto web site: or email us a link to any online content you produce - we will add a link to our site. Effective Online Teaching. As I venture through my online teaching and course development I have been drawn to the question, what does an effective online teacher look like?
If I am to develop a good online course then I will need to know what aspect I need to include in the course that would facilitate good online teaching practices. 1. Provide helpful resources on the course site: their summary indicated that “guiding questions helped students focus and develop their projects” (pg. 21) 2. Let students have control over the pace that they work through the course: they did indicate that their findings were mixed and that the more successful students finished the work sooner than the less successful students. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 1. 2. 3. 4. Cole and Kritzer (2006) expressed the need to create each unit as a module where all of their objectives, readings, presentations, questions, and activity were presented in one complete block.
Ten Best Practices for Teaching Online. J.
V. Boettcher, Ph.D. 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.
Each year, the numbers of colleges and universities offering online courses increases. How Technology Can Improve Learner-Centered Teaching. For faculty looking to create a more learner-centered environment there are always a few bumps in the road.
First they need to get used to no longer being the “sage on the stage” and then there’s the adjustment period for students who aren’t used to being active participants in their learning. In many ways, technology can help pave the way for both faculty and students, but only if the instructor “is adept at creating a course that capitalizes on the pedagogical benefits that technology facilitates in helping students meet the desired learning outcomes for the course,” said Ike Shibley, associate professor of chemistry at Penn State – Berks. Blended Learning Toolkit. Getting Started with Blended Learning Course Design. November 21, 2011 By: Mary Bart in Instructional Design, Online Education Blended learning is often described as the best of both worlds because it combines elements of face-to-face and online learning.
For an instructor getting ready to teach his first blended course, the temptation may be to look at his traditional course syllabus, pick which classes can be moved online and then leave the rest of the syllabus as it has always been. “That’s one of the major pitfalls we see, but you really shouldn’t do that,” said Veronica Diaz, PhD associate director of the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative.
“You really want to integrate those two components so we encourage people to take the time to redesign the entire course. Becoming an eTeacher.