Concept mapping requires thinking structurally about concepts, both
object concepts and event concepts.
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What Your Ph.D. Didn't Cover | Inside Higher Ed - 0 views
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Now, recognizing that what these instructors need is markedly different training from their counterparts in high schools and at four-year universities, some graduate programs are offering credentials specifically for those students who plan to or already teach at community colleges as a supplement to their subject matter graduate training.
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Those seeking the certificate do not have to be enrolled in a Temple graduate program, and there is a specific track for current community college instructors who, though they are already experts in their discipline, want a professional development opportunity to learn new teaching techniques.
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The certificate for current community college instructors consists of a three-credit seminar on “teaching in higher education” — with broad-based lessons on various teaching philosophies and course designs — and three one-credit modules on specific topics. Current topics are “assessment,” “diversity and inclusive teaching” and “teaching with technology.
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“Having a Ph.D. doesn’t necessarily prepare one for teaching, so some are having 'a-ha' moments by the minute in the program,” Barnett said.
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Offering teaching certificates to community college instructors or those who wish to become them is not an entirely new idea. In contrast to Temple’s more general teaching certificate, a few other graduate programs around the country have certificate programs for specific disciplines at community colleges
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“There’s a lot of research on programs that prepare new teaching assistants and those of the like, but there is very little research on preparing community college teachers,”
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Using Facebook to build community in large college classes (essay) | Inside Higher Ed - 1 views
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Uh oh ... this is how it starts ... he'll be an online teacher within two semesters!
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It is definitely not for everyone -- you must be committed (especially time-wise) to using it. But knowing that you and your hundreds of students are finally seeing eye-to-eye is worth the effort!
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The success of Fb described above, as well as survey data I collected showing positive reactions to the Fb group, will lead to my continued use of this technology.
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Collecting feedback to improve future course iterations ... another example of using data to effect best practice.
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After all the years of teaching these “mega-sections” and with the tough financial situation of my state university it was clear that this type of class was not going away.
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I was hoping to include something that would add a greater sense of community to the class, something that everyone in the class could use to better connect to one another.
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I knew the data about how many college students were on Fb, but would students be willing to spend some of their valuable Fb time communicating within a Fb group for a college course? Also, would I be willing to become an avid Fb user, following the flow of communication several times a day? It did not take long to learn that the answers to these questions was “Yes,” and that I had reached my goal of facilitating a sense of community. Although joining the Fb group for the course was not required, a little over 80 percent of the class became members of the group.
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Roughly equivalent to 76% student satisfaction rate Alex and colleagues found regarding student satisfaction with high levels of student/instructor interactivity.
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Moreover, the students essentially ran the group.
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These included everything from asking for notes, getting clarification on points made in lecture, posting videos and images that pertained to class material, forming study groups, noting relevant events on campus, and congratulating class members on specific accomplishments.
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This makes me wonder how to increase the visibility of the "Bulletin Board" or "Faculty Lounge" course areas.
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Future Shock. Too much change in a too short period of time - FT Careers Blog - 0 views
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Subjectively, we feel this acceleration of time, we grew up in a slower paced world and it was easier for us to adapt to change. Today we are bombarded with information, products, events and it’s sometimes hard to keep up. It may be easier for some, harder for others
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"You can't teach an old dog new tricks?" I don't know that I've ever fully believed that. I think its more along the lines of old dogs don't necessarily want to learn new tricks.
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Think about the news, communications and mass media. Since the internet became mainstream the way information is shared has changed radically. News one day old is already OLD. News is being produced in real time; worldwide communications are in real time too. Even more, there is more news everywhere. And it’s not that some years ago nothing happened. It’s that it’s become easier to broadcast them, allowing us to dramatically increase the information that can be distributed to the world.
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Prior to the world being so "wired", most people didn't even know who the pope was.
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The younger generations have a less daunting task, mainly because they were raised in this wired/online world. They are accustomed to it.
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I feel like as a 30 year old, I fall between the older generations and younger ones. There was no computer at my mother's house until my senior year of high school and I didnt have a cell phone until my third year in college.
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Online Teaching Effectiveness: A Tale of Two Instructors | Gorsky | The International R... - 0 views
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We propose, as have others (i.e., Shea, Pickett, & Pelz, 2003), that the community of inquiry model (Garrison, Anderson, & Archer, 2000) reflects the principles of good practice in undergraduate education and can accurately quantify them.
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issues of pedagogy, dialogue, and interaction
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guide the coding of transcripts.
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Social presence is the perceived presence of others in mediated communication (Rourke, Garrison, & Archer, 1999), which Garrison et al. (2000) contend supports both cognitive and teaching presence through its ability to instigate, to sustain, and to support interaction. It had its genesis in the work of John Dewey and is consistent with all theoretical approaches to learning in higher education.
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See http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/262/838 for similar viewpoint.
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Teaching presence is defined as “the design, facilitation and direction of cognitive and social processes for the purpose of realizing [students’] personally meaningful and educationally worthwhile outcomes” (Anderson et al., 2001, p.5). Vygotsky’s (1978) scaffolding analogies illustrate an assistive role for teachers in providing instructional support to students from their position of greater content knowledge. Although many authors recommend a “guide on the side” approach to moderating student discussions, a key feature of this social cognition model is the adult, the expert, or the more skilled peer who scaffolds a novice’s learning
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Each category of a tutor’s presence is vital to learning and to the establishment of the learning community; tutors' behavior must be such that they are seen to be “posting regularly, responding in a timely manner and modeling good online communication and interaction” (Palloff & Pratt, 2003, p.118). Without an instructor’s explicit guidance and “teaching presence,” students were found to engage primarily in “serial monologues” (Pawan et al., 2003). Baker (2004) discovered that “instructor immediacy, i.e., teaching presence (Rourke et al., 1999), was a more reliable predictor of effective cognitive learning than whether students felt close to each other. Studies have demonstrated that instructor participation in threaded discussion is critical to the development of social presence (Shea, Li, Swan, & Pickett, 2005; Swan & Shih, 2005) and sometimes not fully appreciated by online faculty (Liu, Bonk, Magjuka, Lee, & Su, 2005). Shea, Li, and Pickett (2006) proposed that teaching presence – viewed as the core role of the online instructor – is a promising mechanism for developing learning community in online environments.
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students ranked instructor modeling as the most important element in building online community, while instructors ranked it fourth.
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Shea (2006), who completed an extensive study of teaching presence and online learning, concluded that two categories (“design” and “directed facilitation”) sufficed to define the construct.
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Kalman, Ravid, Raban, and Rafaeli (2006) argued that interactivity is an essential characteristic of effective online communication and plays an important role in keeping message threads and their authors together. Interactive communication (online as well as in traditional settings) is engaging, and loss of interactivity results in a breakdown of the communicative process.
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Research indicates the existence of a relationship between learners’ perceptions of social presence and their motivation for participation in online discussions (Weaver & Albion, 2005).
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Northrup (2002) found that online learners felt it was important for instructors to promote collaboration and conversation. When interactive activities are carefully planned, they lead not only to greater learning but also to enhanced motivation (Berge 1999; Northrup, 2002).
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Researchers have suggested that timing of messages can serve as a proxy for a sense of social presence (Blanchard, 2004), as an indication of attentiveness (Walther & Bunz, 2005) or respect (Bargh & McKenna, 2004), and as a clue to the sociability of a community (Maloney-Krichmar & Preece, 2005). As such, the frequency of messages may serve as a signal for how engaged participants are with the community.
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Eom found that the most significant factors for increasing student satisfaction with online classes are paying attention to students and responding to their concerns.
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The highly esteemed instructor was especially active from semester midpoint to semester end; she more than doubled her active participation in both teaching presence (especially discourse and instruction) and social presence (all three categories).
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the lack of specific, progressively structured inquiry tasks and/or the lack of facilitation skills (teaching presence/facilitating discourse) may have contributed to the relatively limited occurrences of cognitive presence.
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something else accounted for the extreme satisfaction and dissatisfaction experienced by students in the two forums. The something else may be the two exceptional events that occurred during the third month: The instructor held in low esteem became nearly dysfunctional, while the highly esteemed instructor exhibited very high teacher presence and social presence (see Table 3 and 4).
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Shea, Pickett, and Pelt (2003) found that students’ perceived teacher presence also correlates with perceived learning as well as with students’ satisfaction with the forum. This correlation points to the tentative conclusion that teaching presence affords learning by setting a convenient climate.
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we suggest that students’ perceived learning in course forums has a significant impact on their participation
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the table is suggestive of the eventual possibility of having an “objective” tool for evaluating the quality of a given forum.
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(Anderson et al., 2001).
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Teaching effectiveness may be defined as how an instructor can best direct, facilitate, and support students toward certain academic ends, such as achievement and satisfaction. Teaching effectiveness has been investigated extensively in traditional classrooms for more than seven decades (for a meta-analysis of empirical studies from 1995-2004, see Seidel & Shavelson, 2007). Over the past five years, research has become directed toward teaching effectiveness in online or virtual classes. As a preface to our study, we discuss findings and conclusions concerning teaching effectiveness in traditional classrooms.
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One of the most widely cited sources for teacher effectiveness in traditional classrooms is Chickering and Gamson (1987), who suggested seven principles for good practice in undergraduate education.
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encourages student-faculty contact, encourages cooperation among students, encourages active learning, gives prompt feedback, emphasizes time on task, communicates high expectations, respects diverse talents and ways of learning.
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Educational Leadership:Teaching for Multiple Intelligences:Integrating Learning Styles ... - 0 views
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Learning-style theory begins with Carl Jung (1927), who noted major differences in the way people perceived (sensation versus intuition), the way they made decisions (logical thinking versus imaginative feelings), and how active or reflective they were while interacting (extroversion versus introversion)
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Most learning-style theorists have settled on four basic styles. Our own model, for instance, describes the following four styles: The Mastery style learner absorbs information concretely; processes information sequentially, in a step-by-step manner; and judges the value of learning in terms of its clarity and practicality. The Understanding style learner focuses more on ideas and abstractions; learns through a process of questioning, reasoning, and testing; and evaluates learning by standards of logic and the use of evidence. The Self-Expressive style learner looks for images implied in learning; uses feelings and emotions to construct new ideas and products; and judges the learning process according to its originality, aesthetics, and capacity to surprise or delight. The Interpersonal style learner,1 like the Mastery learner, focuses on concrete, palpable information; prefers to learn socially; and judges learning in terms of its potential use in helping others.
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Student Choice: Assessment Products by Intelligence and Style
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In integrating these major theories of knowledge, we moved through three steps. First, we attempted to describe, for each of Gardner's intelligences, a set of four learning processes or abilities, one for each of the four learning styles. For linguistic intelligence, for example, the Mastery style represents the ability to use language to describe events and sequence activities; the Interpersonal style, the ability to use language to build trust and rapport; the Understanding style, the ability to develop logical arguments and use rhetoric; and the Self-expressive style, the ability to use metaphoric and expressive language.
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In MI theory, I begin with a human organism that responds (or fails to respond) to different kinds of contents in the world. . . . Those who speak of learning styles are searching for approaches that ought to characterize all contents (p. 45).
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Learning styles are not fixed throughout life, but develop as a person learns and grows.
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The following are some strengths of learning-style models
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They tend to focus on how different individuals process information across many content areas.
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They recognize the role of cognitive and affective processes in learning and, therefore, can significantly deepen our insights into issues related to motivation.
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They tend to emphasize thought as a vital component of learning, thereby avoiding reliance on basic and lower-level learning activities.
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Learning-styles models have a couple of limitations. First, they may fail to recognize how styles vary in different content areas and disciplines.
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Second, these models are sometimes less sensitive than they should be to the effects of context on learning.
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Emerging from a tradition that viewed style as relatively permanent, many learning-style advocates advised altering learning environments to match or challenge a learner's style. Either way, learning-style models have largely left unanswered the question of how context and purpose affect learning.
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But learning styles emphasize the different ways people think and feel as they solve problems, create products, and interact.
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The theory of multiple intelligences is an effort to understand how cultures and disciplines shape human potential
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Though both theories claim that dominant ideologies of intelligence inhibit our understanding of human differences, learning styles are concerned with differences in the process of learning, whereas multiple intelligences center on the content and products of learning. Until now, neither theory has had much to do with the other
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This article discusses integrating learning styles with multiple intelligences
Teaching Drama Online (EST) - American Alliance for Theatre and Education (AATE) - 0 views
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Empowering Students in the Age of Big Data | EDUCAUSE.edu - 0 views
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Using Gagne's 9 Events of Learning in e-Learning - 0 views
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Sam Wineburg: Historical Thinking and Other Unnatural Acts - 0 views
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a way of knowing, a method for developing an understanding about the relationships of peoples and events in the past.
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his book demolishes the conventional notion that there is one true history and one best way to teach it.
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Sam Wineburg says that we are asking the wrong questions.
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Teachers' Domain: Social Studies - 0 views
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Sheyann Webb was eight years old in 1965 when she marched for voting rights. In this interview, recorded for Eyes on the Prize, she recalls the events of the Selma march.
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I would probably use this as a closure piece to a lesson on integration. It brings to life the ideas I'm describing.
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The Resource Highlights are great primary source interviews! They are relatively short and very interesting.
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For Module 4 SHevann Webb-Voting rights march participant in '65. One of my concepts is citizenship and I am hoping that the struggle for voting rights will be chosen by my students. What a great primary source this interview is!
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Learning Online Learning - 2 views
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Teaching is less about transferring knowledge to learners than giving them the chances to ask the questions and to find answers on their own.
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Now I know that’s not the only way to teach, not the only way to achieve the teaching goals, and, most importantly, not the most effective way to teach.
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In my course, it is important that students are able to learn the basics correctly. So I think the course design should foresee situations like these, and, there should be some modules or learning activities within modules that are designed to have the effect of lectures, i.e., a more systematic presentation of the subject matter. I am not sure at this moment whether this will work or not, but to me it seems to be the logical solution to the problems.
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Why do you do things the way that you do? why do you believe what you believe?
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On top of it is that it allows the Professor to reach to individual student in a personal tone. I am so used to read assignment and feedback in written format that I don’t remember when was the last time a professor went through my assignment in front of me. Almost always the case that the feedbacks were scribed down on the tiny margins of the papers, with often less then eligible handwritings. I did the same thing to my students when grading their papers and exams. So, using Podcast to give feedback is marvelous. It can easily create a strong sense of connection and trust between the instructor and the student. It helps out the most for those students who may be on the brink of feeling isolated from the learning community or fall behind in the middle of a long and demanding semester.
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I wouldn’t be surprised if we are asked to when our courses are implemented in coming weeks, and it certainly would be a lot of fun.
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Careful choice of words
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Sharing personal story.
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It feels real.
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great observations! how will you use this in your own instruction?
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Professor was right in pointing out that during online course the predominant form of student participation is discussion forum, and it’s up to the course designer to devise ways that can evaluate student’s understanding of the course materials.
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Discussion Forum Exploring the ethical world Ask it like Socrates Website critique Case study Peer review M1 V V M2 V V M3 V V V M4 V V V V M5 V V V M6 V V V V M7 V V V
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brilliant!!! way to make your thinking and your design visible to me/us!!!
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Trust your students, and we will be amazed by what they can come up with.
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, I also assign a discussion forum dedicated to the topic: how does the online learning work? How to succeed
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guess I am not the only one in the class who feels weird not be able to share thoughts and reflections as we’ve been doing for weeks. I miss it very much.
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It has been a little strange, but a welcome break to focus on our courses!
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Larry was right
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I became very disorientated as well. I did one blog instead ot 2, and I did not refer to the prompts. This has given me an insight about how I should try to find ways to helping students deal with the disorientation. Like you say, it's not the course design. It's other psychological factors. I want to study this effect more and try to understand it. I think it is something important to deal with in online learning.
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I believe my problem is typical of first-time online course takers. Online learning environment requires a very different mindset and learning style from the students (from teachers as well) in order for the course to be effective and successful. When learners are not aware of this fact, of what their responsibilities are in making it work, online courses are less likely to move forward.
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Hi Shoubang, I am glad you found the peer reviews helpful. I did wonder if my review was too blunt. I visited your course again today. You've covered so much ground in 2 weeks! The course looks fantastic! And yes I saw your inserted "seinfeld" video!
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Peirce suggests that, since students come to class with loads of opinions about the topics (even more so moral issues, I’d say) whether they are well-informed or not, a way to generate interest in assigned readings is to take a survey of their opinions, or to pre-test their knowledge of the information. (p. 310) I find this suggestion interesting and it leads me back to my earlier reflections on quizzes. Quizzes may not be needed in taking attendance, nor reliable in assessing whether students come to class well-prepared or not, but quizzes may still be useful in inspiring curiosity among students.
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Provoking discomfort (point 5) is very useful.
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Creating cognitive dissonance is also a very useful triggering event that may eventually lead to the completion of the cognitive inquiry.
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I’ve been trying to reflect on my learning process in a very personal way, and I will continue to do this even after the semester finished.
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Given the opportunity, the learners are more likely to express their true selves on consistent basis.
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I felt like my understanding of the criteria of good course design had increased significantly simply by changing the perspectives back and forth between reviewer and self-reviewer.
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", I also assign a discussion forum dedicated to the topic: how does the online learning work? How to succeed"
LA Meet-Up On the Queen Mary Hotel July 30-31 2010 - Metaverse Meet-Up Los Angeles - 0 views
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Mike's reflection blog on on-line learning within 2.0. - 1 views
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I have 222 discussion questions.
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if you do all the work, who does all the learning? 222 question?! now wouldn't it be cool if your students came up with even half of those questions themselves?
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It’s forced me to get out of my comfort area of relating to other music teachers and challenged me to consider music and my teaching of it as it related to other disciplines transposed to the on-line learning environment.
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I’ve included the student need for teaching presence in my discussion rubric but need to further create ways to be part of their learning. This might be just sitting on the sidelines and observing until I feel the need to re-set the climate for learning if it’s off track.
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By doing these activities I have become even more challenged and feel even more uncomfortable. Now I am dipping my other foot in to the online course world. I am inserting my knowledge to this new forum. It’s as if I’m putting my quarter in and watching the wheels turn until they stop on something. What will that something be? I must have felt that I was in some kind of comfort zone. Then I was understanding and proving myself valuable to the other student’s learning.
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I am going to have to think very deeply about. That suggestion is to give more freedom to my students. The students in my course can better express their creativity by having to create their own activities! Wow! This is going to be hard…
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sometimes you can only achieve what you are trying to achieve by letting go... trust yourself and trust your students.
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Creating PDFs takes lot of time
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I have been following your posts, I know you finally got it to work and were able to link pdfs successfully!
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If discussions wane then I can take one of these questions out and use them to stimulate new discussions
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Thanks. They are not going to be introduced all together. That would be too much.
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Being taught what is effective, seeing it being applied to me and then being involved in reflection of its relation to my instruction is the sequence of events that [helped my learning]. This might seem as a surprising statement considering my own blog entry requirements were so open-ended and free-form, a sincere effort to provide scaffolding, that looking back such an attempt could not result in effective metacognitive resolution.
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Therefore I will continue exploring what I have learned in this course and consider the possibility that there may have been things going on in this course that I did not learn because I did not internalize them. (3)
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Laboratory for Affective Neuroscience, UW-Madison Psychology Dept - 0 views
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We are interested in both risk and resilience - why are some individuals particularly vulnerable in response to negative life events, while others appear to be relatively resilient? And how can we promote enhanced resilience? As a part of the latter work, we study interventions designed to cultivate more positive affective styles. One such intervention that we have extensively studied over the past decade is meditation. In addition to the research on normal affective function, we also study a range of psychopathologies, all of which involve abnormalities in different aspects of emotion processing. Included among the disorders we have recently studied are adult mood and anxiety disorders, and autism, fragile X and Williams syndrome in children. Some of our current research involves: Voluntary and automatic emotion regulation. Resilience in aging. Interactions between emotion and cognitive function, particularly working memory and attention. Temperament in children, in hopes of determining early signs of vulnerability to psychopathology. Social and emotional processing differences in children and adults with autism and fragile X. Mood and anxiety disorders. The impact of pharmaco-therapy and psychotherapy on brain function in patients with mood and anxiety disorders. The effects of meditation on brain function in adept practitioners and novices. Relations between neural mechanisms of emotion and peripheral measures of inflammation and lung function in asthma.
