Assessing teaching presence in online courses

Study explores student perceptions of Teaching Presence and impact on success in online courses.

Study focuses on one aspect of facilitation, the way in which we communicate and guide students in asynchronous learning networks (ALN) and how this process might be improved upon.

Developmental nature of an online community of inquiry

To help teachers navigate this ever-changing landscape of social media tools, here are some of the best guides on the web for four popular networks -- Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Pinterest.

Issues including whether parents should be reading kids' private emails, and how parents should deal with open social media sites.

Case study of learners' perspectives and experiences in an online course taught using the Elgg online social network. Findings indicate that learners enjoyed and appreciated both the social learning experience afforded by the online social network and supported one another in their learning, enhancing their own and other students' experiences. Conversely, results also indicate that students limited their participation to course-related and graded activities, exhibiting little use of social networking and sharing. Additionally, learners needed support in managing the expanded amount of information available to them and devised strategies and "workarounds" to manage their time and participation.

A Personal Learning Environment or PLE is a potentially promising pedagogical approach for both integrating formal and informal learning using social media and supporting student self-regulated learning in higher education contexts.

Chapter 6 deals with the importance of acquiring and mastering a set of personal knowledge management (PKM) skills to perform successfully in the Web 2.0 environment for learning.

Wikibook chapter examines why a change agent is necessary and what an educator as change agent does.

Fable about successfully responding to change in an ever-changing world. Based on Kotter's 8-Step Process for successful change management.

To successfully react to windows of opportunity, regardless of the focus - innovation, growth, culture, cost structure, technology - a new methodology of change leadership is required.

8 questions to determine if you are an agent of change

An online course was studied to investigate how integration of formative assessment enhanced the course design to facilitate learner engagement with meaningful learning experiences within the context of ICT-related professional development for teachers.

Role of assessment in student learning and its relationship with the use of information and communication technologies (ICT).

Evaluation of criticisms of Socratic method PDF downloadable via IE

The purpose of this study was (1) to identify significant student demographic predictors among students who dis-enroll ("stoppers"), reenroll ("swirlers" and/or "shoppers"), and/or complete their online program of study ("succeeders"), and (2) to calculate the variance among the significant predictors.

Socratic Misogyny?-Analyzing Feminist Criticisms of Socratic Teaching in Legal Education

Study suggests that education -based SNSs can be used most effectively in distance education courses as a technological tool for improved online communications among students in higher distance education courses.

Based on a framework emphasizing the social nature of learning, this research examines a model of how social constructs affect satisfaction within online learning.