Online Student Demographics INFOGRAPHIC | Education & Careers Get free information from online schools on classesandcareers.com Get free information from online schools on classesandcareers.com Copy and paste this code in your site. <a rel=”nofollow” href=” _mce_href=” alt=”student demographics” img src=” _mce_src=” alt=”student demographics” border=”0″ width=”877″ height=”4654″ /></a><br />Source: <a href=” _mce_href=” Colleges</a><br /><br /><br> Distance Education and Training C How Computerized Tutors Are Learning to Teach Humans Illustration by Tim Enthoven Over the next few months, Heffernan videotaped Lindquist, who taught math to middle-school students, as she tutored, transcribing the sessions word for word, hoping to isolate what made her a successful teacher. A look at the transcripts suggests the difficulties he faced. Lindquist’s tutoring sessions were highly interactive: a single hour might contain more than 400 lines of dialogue. Lindquist: Do you know how to calculate average driving speed? Student: I think so, but I forget. Lindquist: Well, average speed — as your mom drove you here, did she drive the same speed the whole time? Student: No. Lindquist: But she did have an average speed. Student: It would be hours divided by 55 miles. Lindquist: Which way is it? Student: It would be 55 miles divided by hours. As the session continued, Lindquist gestured, pointed, made eye contact, modulated her voice. But what of the pupils who could most benefit from tutoring — poor, urban, minority?
Five Factors that Affect Online Student Motivation Understanding what motivates online learners is important because motivated students are more likely to engage in activities that help them learn and achieve, says Brett Jones, associate professor of educational psychology at Virginia Tech. Based on an extensive review of the literature on student motivation, Jones has developed the MUSIC model of student motivation, which identifies five main factors that contribute to student motivation: eMpowerment, Usefulness, Success, Interest, and Caring. “The primary purpose of the model is to provide instructors with a guide that they can use to make intentional decisions about the design of their courses,” Jones says. In an interview with Online Classroom, Jones explained his model and its implications for online course design. We’re providing an excerpt of it here. 1. eMpowerment – Students feel empowered when they feel that they have some control over some aspects of their learning. 2. 3. 4. Remember that interest isn’t universal. 5.
How a single DMCA notice took down 1.45 million education blogs Web hosting firm ServerBeach recently received a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) violation notice from Pearson, the well-known educational publishing company. The notice pertained to Edublogs, which hosts 1.45 million education-related blogs with ServerBeach, and it focused on a single Edublogs page from 2007 that contained a questionnaire copyrighted by Pearson. ServerBeach informed Edublogs about the alleged violation, and Edublogs says it quickly took down the allegedly infringing content. Instead of calling the matter settled, though, ServerBeach took Edublogs' servers offline last Wednesday, temporarily shutting off all 1.45 million blogs, according to Edublogs. ServerBeach confirms taking all of the Edublogs offline, telling Ars that the outage lasted for "roughly 60 minutes before we brought them back online and confirmed their compliance with the DMCA takedown request." As you might expect, ServerBeach and Edublogs have slightly different accounts of how it all happened.
Creating an independent online course for a niche skill Several months after completing an online course on the topic of Web site indexing, I read a message on a discussion list lamenting the fact that the instructor of that course would no longer offer it. The author of this message was disappointed because she had wanted to take the course. It didn't take me long to decide that I would create and teach my own version of "Creating Web site Indexes"—since there was still a demand for it—before anyone else did. The growing acceptance of online learning has made it possible for anyone to become a teacher, without even being affiliated with an educational institution or a sponsoring organization. Instruction in a Niche Skill Since the independent instructor cannot offer the certification or credits that often lead students to take online courses, the marketing of the course must rely on the content itself. My topic—creating back-of-the-book-style A to Z indexes for Web sites or intranets—is definitely a niche skill. Designing the Course
Textbook Publisher Pearson Takes Down 1.5 Million Teacher And Student Blogs With A Single DMCA Notice If there's one thing we've seen plenty of here at Techdirt, it's the damage a single DMCA takedown notice can do. From shuttering a legitimate ebook lending site to removing negative reviews to destroying a user's Flickr account to knocking a copyright attorney's site offline, the DMCA notice continues to be the go-to weapon for copyright defenders. Collateral damage is simply shrugged at and the notices continue to fly at an ever-increasing pace. Textbook publisher Pearson set off an unfortunate chain of events with a takedown notice issued aimed at a copy of Beck's Hoplessness Scale posted by a teacher on one of Edublogs' websites (You may recall Pearson from such other related copyright nonsense as The $180 Art Book With No Pictures and No Free Textbooks Ever!). The end result? Nearly 1.5 million teacher and student blogs taken offline by Edublogs' host, ServerBeach. Well, there actually was a "word of warning."
Best Online Collaboration Tools 2012 - Robin Good... How Even Highly-Targeted Censorship Can Lead To Overblocking As the battle rages over SOPA and PIPA, censorship is very much on people's minds. But there are many different kinds of censorship, operating at different levels of precision. For example, while some forms are crude and inexact, like Homeland Security's shutdown of 84,000 sites, others are highly targeted, and designed to block in a very specific way. That's the case for the attempted blocking of Newzbin2 in the UK. If an IP address matches one of those contained in the blocking list, the request to access the site is routed to a proxy server where the exact URL – the specific address including the directory and filename – is examined. the Studios now accept that the order should refer to IP address re-routing and not IP address blocking. However, as James Firth notes in a blog post, overblocking is still likely to occur thanks to the combination of two factors: The first is that Newzbin will - and there's strong evidence they have done already, several times - change their IP address.
Virtual Reality Simulation E-Learning by Skills2Learn Training your workforce or students today can pose a number of challenges. Cost expenses, equipment shortages, dangerous situations, people’s motivation to learn are all factors hindering good training. Fail to motivate learners? Leave learners confused and lacking confidence? If any of the questions above affect you then Skills2Learns virtual reality may be the solution for you. Skills2Learn use its own award winning technology to create virtual reality simulation solutions that can be used for almost any subject matter. The possibilities of 3D and virtual reality are endless from environments, buildings, equipment to people.
How Not To Flip » Physics of Learning Blog In this post I would like to deal with the classroom half of the flipped classroom. What type of homework that is given, be it a video, a reading or practice questions, is almost irrelevant to my musings today. The main purpose of this post is to show two examples of what a flipped math classroom can look like. One is a constructivist environment and the other is a Khan Academy classroom. I think most people will find the difference to be quite shocking. First, let’s take a look at Khan Academy. [flowplayer src=edblog/video/khanA.mp4 width=640 height=320 splash=edblog/video/khan.PNG] Here are a few things I’d like to point out and have you consider for analysis: 0:27 student gets help from the teacher (not fellow students) 0:32 “less lecturing more interaction”. Now please have a look at what I would consider to be a constructivist math classroom. [flowplayer src=edblog/video/app_math.mp4 width=640 height=360 splash=edblog/video/maths.PNG] Now consider the points below for your analysis:
The Internet will not ruin college I barged into my son’s room on Wednesday afternoon to ask him when he wanted dinner, and discovered him watching a Khan Academy video to help with his chemistry homework. And I thought: that story I’ve been working on about the backlash against MOOCs (Massive Online Open Courses)? Why am I even bothering? The war is already over. I am not arguing that we shouldn’t be looking long and hard at exactly how online courses are “disrupting” education, with special attention devoted to who plans to profit from new delivery models and how taxpayers will inevitably get screwed. A friend of my son taught himself how to play the ukulele from YouTube videos last summer. After years of hype about how the digital revolution was going to slice and dice the ivory tower, it’s all starting to happen very fast. In mid-January, Udacity announced a deal, partially brokered by California Gov. The critics of the evolving landscape are eloquent and impassioned and the points they make should not be ignored.
Minnesota bans Coursera: State takes bold stand against free education. Screenshot / Coursera UPDATE, Oct. 19, 7:07 p.m.: Common sense has indeed prevailed! Minnesota has decided to stop enforcing an outdated law that had led to Coursera telling the state's residents they weren't allowed to take its free online classes. For more, see my follow-up post here. Original post: Honorable mentions go to New York City’s Taxi and Limousine Commission for driving out Uber’s online taxi-hailing service and to automobile dealers’ groups in four states for trying to have Tesla dealerships declared illegal. The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that the state has decided to crack down on free education, notifying California-based startup Coursera that it is not allowed to offer its online courses to the state’s residents. A policy analyst for the state’s Office of Higher Education told The Chronicle that Minnesota is simply enforcing a longstanding state law requiring colleges to get the government’s permission to offer instruction within its borders.
Online Learning Pathways Conventional e-learning relies on the SCORM module (sometimes called the SCO – ‘shareable content object’ by those in the business). The SCORM module is a good concept – effectively an online learning activity that includes interactions and assessment that can be delivered via any SCORM compatible LMS (effectively all LMS’). But there are some serious limitations to SCORM so are there other ways to develop e-learning or online learning that don’t require the use of SCORM? Yes there are, and they are becoming increasingly popular for a number of reasons. I’m currently working with WillowDNA where we are busy ‘unpacking’ e-learning and creating what we call ‘learning pathways’. Why unpack SCORM? Online learning pathways allow for a wider range of learning activities organised in a more flexible format. So what does an online learning pathway look like and what learning activities are possible? Here’s a graphic that illustrates the pathway approach. Autonomous Social Supported Blended