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Diana Cary

The Role of the Online Instructor/Facilitator - Reading 2-1 instructor role.pdf - 0 views

  • The facilitator must make participants comfortable with the system and the software that the conference is using.
  • This role involves setting the agenda for the conference: the objectives of the discussion, the timetable, procedural rules and decision-making norms.
  • Creating a friendly, social environment in which learning is promoted is also essential for successful moderating
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  • Certainly, some of the most important roles of online discussion moderator/tutor revolves around their duties as an educational facilitator
Jessica M

Critical Literacy, Digital Literacies, and Common Core State Standards: A Workable Union? - 0 views

  • Citation of evidence” and“analysis” are malleable activities, and this mal-leability provides opportunities for educators tocurve them to include a stronger critical literacycomponent.
  • Analyze a complex set of ideas or sequenceof events and explain how specific individuals,ideas, or events interact and develop over thecourse of the text
  • (d)emonstrate command of technology, includ-ing the Internet, to produce, publish, and updatework in response to ongoing feedback, includingfresh arguments or new information
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  • Cite strong and thorough textual evidenceto support analysis of what the text saysexplicitly as well as inferences drawn fromthe text, including determining where the textleaves matters uncertain
  • Analyze and evaluate the effectiveness ofthe structure an author uses in his or herexposition or argument, including whether thestructure makes points clear, convincing, andengaging
  • Determine an author’s point of view or pur-pose in a text in which the rhetoric is partic-ularly effective, analyzing how style and con-tent contribute to the power, persuasiveness,or beauty of the text.
Diana Cary

Keeping Competitive: Why Learner-Centred Education Makes Sense in a Global Economy - lc... - 0 views

  • The more engaged a person is with the content, the better the person learns it because (s)he adds his own meaning and associations to it
  • The more connections people have to a concept, the more likely that person will be able to retrieve it later and in another context
  • shifts the emphasis from what instructorsdo to what the studentsdo to learn
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  • makes students responsible for learning
  • focuses not only on what students are learning but how they are learning
  • Instructors are now guides, facilitators, coaches and not just sages
Catherine Strattner

Here are the demographics I promised at the TLT MIDmeeting - 1 views

  • 17709      20 to 24                    37.756646               22
  • 0.0010233               48             Afghanistan 0.0004477               21             Albani 0.0002984               14             Algeria 0.0002132               10             Andorra 0.0001279               6                Angola 0.0001066               5                Antigua and Barbuda 0.0000426               2                Armenia 0.0000852               4                Australia 0.0000426               2                Austria 0.0000213               1                Azerbaijan 0.0000213               1                Bangladesh 0.0000213               1                Barbados 0.0001492               7                Belarus 0.0000213               1                Belize 0.0000213               1                Bhutan 0.0000639               3                Bulgaria 0.0000213               1                Burundi 0.0000213               1                Cambodia 0.0008741               41             Canada 0.0001492               7                China 0.0000213               1               
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    I am amazed at how many countries are represented by the students involved in the SLN.
Jessica M

Multimodal Composition and the Common Core State Standards - 0 views

  • The standards assume that being literate means being digitally literate.
  • My goal for this column is to highlight strong examples of digital literacies instruction and technology integration that teachers can remix and customize for their students and teaching contexts
  • “One of the biggest communication changes happening today is the shift from the printed word on a page to multiple modes of image, sound, movement, and text on a screen.”
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      even some school assessments are starting to shift to computer based
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  • proposition that effective technology integration occurs at the intersections of teachers’ knowledge about technology, pedagogy, and content, or TPAC (see Figure 1).
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    the world is changing to more technology, and multimodal - education is changing with it
Jessica M

Enabling Students with Disabilities with Computing Interaction and Empowerment though E... - 0 views

  • or many centuries, education has been focused on the learning of course content, but the learning styles of the students have been ignored .
  • While most of the academic approaches have been centered on the mastery of course content knowledge, not all learners learn in the same way.
  • As a result, different teaching techniques, strategies, and tools may be needed to help all students acquire, understand, and apply learning gained from the course content.
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  • visual learners were able to benefit from applications in PowerPoint and Flash Multi-Media technology.
  • students with disabilities are finding technology to be more enabling than disabling at times.
  • us, more students with disabilities are enrolling in online courses. O
  • Auditory learners could benefit from online classrooms with auditory lectures, Podcasts for students, as well as live chats
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    - need to teach students use of technology for future - work place - needs of different type of learners - online classes offer varying opportunities (accommodate different learning styles and strategies) - increase in students with disabilities enrolling in online courses - less barriers for students with disabilities
Jessica M

Show me! Enhanced Feedback Through Screencasting Technology - 0 views

  • What is Screencasting?
  • These videos can be accompanied by a narration recorded whilethe video is created or added at a later date once the recording has been com-pleted
  • combine both visual and auditory input, thusadvancing earlier explorations of the use of audio-recorded feedback andpodcasting as an alternative to handwritten marginal notes (
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  • this technology could be used to produce feedback bycreating video-recordings of both his spoken comments and his on-screenactions as he responded to students’ texts. Stann
  • this work is rooted in the belief that multimodal feedback allowsfor a wider range of individual learning styles and preferences
  • and is more likely to provide a learning experience that students will findmemorable
Jessica M

Students' Learning Style Preferences and Teachers' Instructional Strategies: Correlatio... - 0 views

  • the majority of studies pertaining to learning styles involved participants in secondary or post-secondary education
  • Past research has predominately focused on identifying individuals’ learning style preferences and pattern
  • helping teachers recognize the incredibly diverse needs students bring into the classroom
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  • This extends to those with special learning needs
  • and Guild (2001) even suggested                       between teaching and learning styles
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    is there a correlation between student learning styles and teacher instruction strategies?
abeukema

Do Online Students Dream of Electric Teachers? - 0 views

  • dopt a conversational tone in online course materials,
  • The best form of evaluation, however, is self-evaluation.
  • confront those same courses as an alien force which threatens to dominate and oppress them
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  • These students, in turn, become desensitized as their instructors begin to appear almost robotic in their provocations and responses (or
  • geographic “distance” necessarily translates into “emotional distance,
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    Role of teacher involvement and relationships in online classes "geographic "distance" necessarily translates into "emotional distance"
Jessica M

Teaching in an Online Learning Context - 0 views

  • Activities in this category of teaching presence include building curriculum materials.
  • design category of teaching presence also includes the processes through which the instructor negotiates timelines for group activities and student project work, a critical coordinating and motivating function
  • Creating or “repurposing” materials, such as lecture notes, to provide online teacher commentaries, mini-lectures, personal insights, and other customized views of course content, is another common activ-ity that we assign to the category of teaching presence.
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  • personalized tone within the course content.
  • his presence is created by allowing students to see the personal excitement and appeal that inspires the teacher’s interest in the subject.
  • This writing style helps the learner to identify, in a personalized way, with the teacher.
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    This chapter focuses on the role of the teacher or tutor in an online learning context. It uses the theoretical model developed by Garrison, Anderson, and Archer (2000) that views the creation of an effective online educational community as involving three critical components: cognitive presence, social presence, and teaching presence.
Jessica M

Educators: Are Web - based Resources an Effective Means for Increasing Knowledge in Hig... - 0 views

  • Previous research has shown that online instruction has aided in the preparation and retention of special education teachers (Dymond & Bentz, 2006; Knapczyk, Frey, & Wall-Marencik, 2005).
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      Online instruction is research proven to help benefit special education students
  • positively affect attitudes, knowledge
  • lack of training during their preservice years in proper interventions for students with disabilities, including modification, accommodations and assistive technology
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  • ill-equipped
  • For example teacher educators identify time constraints as one of the biggest barriers in providing an effective overall class on how to educate students with disabilities in the general education classroom
  • outcomes, and perceptions of educating students with disabilities in general education (Carroll, 2003; Cook, 2002; Kirk, 1998; Powers, 1992).
  • Assistive Technology Outcomes and BenefitsFocused Issue: The Role of Higher Education in Preparing Education Professionals to Use AT
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    Many facts about students with disabilities and how educators can benefit from online courses and learning to better support the needs of these students. Benefit of taking this course online - community, sharing..
Diana Cary

Microsoft Word - v7n1_richardson.doc - 10.1.1.119.9339.pdf - 1 views

  • tudents’ perceptions of social presence overall, moreover, contributed significantly to the predictor equation for students’ perceived learning overall.
  • Research has demonstrated that social presence not only affects outcomes but also student, and possibly instructor, satisfaction with a course [1
Liz Keeney

Learning Styles vs. Multiple Intelligences - 0 views

  • Learning Styles(LS) can be defined as the wayhuman beings prefer to concentrate on, store andremember new and/or difficult information.
  • MIis a theoretical frame work for defining/understanding/assessing/developing people’s dif-ferent intelligence factors.
Jessica M

Promoting Community for Online Learners in Special Education - 0 views

  • strong interdependence with oth-ers and the feeling of being a member of a stable group
  • Numerous researchers in special education have examined online learn-ing from the perspective of student satisfaction and grades
  • and the idea that available technologies can be used to expand and support a sense of community.
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  • team-based work environments
sschwartz03

http://www.sunyresearch.net/hplo/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/LP-Additional-Research-draf... - 4 views

  • The authors posit that learning occurs through the interaction of students and their instructor and is manifest as three integrated elements that contribute to a successful online learning community
  • social presence (SP), teaching presence (TP), and cognitive presence (CP)
  • he model also includes cognitive presence, a multivariate measure of critical and creative thinking that results from the cyclical process of practical inquiry within such a community of learners.
Jessica M

FACE-TO-FACE VERSUS THREADED DISCUSSIONS: THE ROLE OF TIME AND HIGHER-ORDER THINKING - 0 views

  • onclude that increasing interaction through online communications is a form of active learning, and students view such coursework more favorably and deem these communication tools (email, bulletin boards) highly.
  • It is fundamental that interaction between the student and course content, the faculty member, and other students contributes to learning.
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    learning needs interactions from all participants..
Teresa Dobler

Misconceptions_WhitePaper.pdf - 0 views

  • importance of understanding misconceptions as a first step toward addressing them in instructional settings
  • particularly if this new information does not fit their established pattern of thinking.
  • confront their beliefs
Jessica M

ETAP640amp2014: SLN online student demographics - 0 views

  • 17709      20 to 24                    37.756646               22 8149        25 to 29                    17.374155               27
  • 62%          Female
  • 0.9899366               46,431     United States
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  • 0.9289384               43,570     New York
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    Online Student Demographics - some numbers are surprising while others I assumed..
Jessica M

Relations of Student Perceptions of Teacher Oral Feedback With Teacher Expectancies and... - 0 views

  • exhibited the importance ofteachers’ verbal statements and indicated teachers’ positive feedback was morebeneficial than negative feedback to academic self-concept.
  • teachers as significant othersprovide oral feedback as environmental reinforcement that plays a crucial role inthe development of students’ self-concept
  • understanding how feedback relates to academicoutcomes
Irene Watts-Politza

E Pedagogy - 2 views

  •   E-Pedagogy: Does e-learning require a new pedagogy?  5 The emergence of e-learning  As part of the technological revolution, the use of e-learning, or blended learning, isincreasing. This is particularly true of Higher Education, which offers most programmespartly or wholly online. In the future, e-learning is likely to be more widely used in thetertiary and school sectors. Another driver for e-learning is life-long learning, whichrequires on-going training and re-training of the adult workforce.In many cases, e-learning is delivered through a virtual learning environment (VLE),which is a custom built environment designed for online learning. VLEs, such as  Blackboard and Moodle , typically provide all of the software tools required for onlinelearning such as communication and file sharing facilities. These environments are oftenmodelled around the traditional campus, providing ‘virtual staff rooms’ and ‘onlinecommon rooms’. E-portfolios provide the digital equivalent to the traditional paperportfolio; these typically provide online storage for a range of media types (such asdrawings, photos and videos). Dedicated e-assessment systems, such as Questionmark ,facilitate large-scale online testing, providing many of the question types that arefamiliar to teachers.Some academics have pointed out the potential of e-learning to improve current practice.Garrison and Anderson (2003) write:“E-learning has significantpotential to alter the nature of theteaching and learning transaction.In fact, it has caused us to face upto some of the current deficienciesof higher education, such as largelecturers, while providing somepossible solutions or ways tomitigate these shortcomings. Seenas part of pedagogical solution, e-learning becomes an opportunity toexamine and live up to the ideals of the educational transactiondescribed previously.” New learning opportunities The changing environment facilitates new kinds of learning. Teachers have traditionallyfocussed on content; indeed, many consider the identification and delivery of learningmaterial to be their prime role. But it has been argued that the traditional skill of contentcreation is redundant in the information-rich learning environment. Some of this contentis very high quality, even world class, and certainly superior to a hurriedly producedhandout of the type often used by busy teachers.It has been suggested that the contemporary teacher should be more “guide on the side”than “sage on the stage”. The ready availability of information makes  facilitation moreimportant than direction . The pedagogic issue is not too little information but too much:the contempora
  • changing learning landscape poses fundamental epistemological questions about thenature of knowledge and how it is acquired. Dede (2008) writes: “In the Classicalperspective, knowledge consists of accurate interrelationships among facts, based onunbiased research that produces compelling evidence about systematic causes […]Epistemologically, a single right answer is believed to underlie each phenomenon […]The epistemology that leads to validity of knowledge in Web 2.0 media such as Wikipedia  is peer review from people seen, by the community of contributors, as having unbiasedperspectives. Expertise involves understanding disputes in detail and proposingsyntheses that are widely accepted by the community
  • hatever new theory of learning emerges in thenext decade, it will likelybuild upon thesepedagogie
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  • George Siemens introduced this theory in his paper Connectivism: Learning as networkcreation (2004) to address “the shortcomings of behaviourist, cognivitist andconstructivist ideologies”.Connectivism conceptualises knowledge and learning as a network, consisting of nodesand connections. Knowledge, at any point in time, is a particular (probably temporary)configuration of nodes and connections (a sub-network). Learning creates newconnections between existing nodes (changes to existing knowledge) and/or creates newnodes (entirely new knowledge). Learning, therefore, is about network (node andconnection) creation.His theory differentiates between data, information, knowledge and meaning: •   Data : raw elements •   Information : data with intelligence applied •   Knowledge : information in context and internalised •   Meaning : comprehension of the nuances, value and implications of knowledge.“Learning is the process that occurs when knowledge is transformed into something of meaning.”Connectivism embraces eight principles:1.   Learning and knowledge rest in diversity of opinion.2.   Learning is a process of connecting specialised nodes or information sources.3.   Learning may reside in non-human applicances.4.   Capacity to know is more important that what is currently known.5.   Maintaining connections is needed for continual learning. (function() { var pageParams = {"origHeight": 1276, "origWidth": 902, "fonts": [3, 1, 2, 4, 0], "pageNum": 9}; pageParams.containerElem = document.getElementById("outer_page_9"); pageParams.contentUrl = "http://html2.scribdassets.com/4o2mjijnuo850n3/pages/9-7fefce237b.jsonp"; var page = docManager.addPage(pageParams); })(); Scribd.Ads.addBetweenPageUnit(9);   E-Pedagogy: Does e-learning require a new pedagogy? left: 3830px; top: 276px; color
  • Rote learning of factual information, which typifies behaviourism, isvalueless when students are one click away from Google and Wikipedia. The “teacher-knows-best” idiom of cognivitism is questionable in a time of “the wisdom of the crowd”.The constructivist approach (and, particularly, social constructivism) appears to be abetter fit for 21st century learning – but needs to be updated to embrace the modernlearning environment that includes virtual worlds such as Second Life. ‘Connectivism’,‘E-moderating’, ‘E-Learning 2.0’ and ‘Assessment 2.0’ may not provide the answer – butdo highlight the problems with the status quo and emphasise the need for a newapproach to teaching, learning and assessment
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    "Does e-learning require a new approach to teaching and learning?" This is an interesting paper about pedagogical approaches to e-learning and e-teaching. Do you believe we need a new approach for online learning? What is your pedagogical approach to e-learning and e-teaching?
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    What is your pedagogical approach to e-learning and e-teaching?
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