I feel like every discussion, article and assignment I have done in this course has really made me question why I do things the way I do.
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i am, of course, thrilled with this observation, aubrey. thanks for sharing it. If that was the only thing you got out of this cousre i would be very very happy. thanks for your willingness to consider the possibilities . : ) me
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This was the most challenging course in my Master Degree career at UAlbany. I loved every minute of it. I think that pushing students to perform at higher levels helps them to break the plateu of what they think they are capable of. Usually they are capable of more than you think. It also helped my learning to use diigo and rate my posts. At first I thought it was painstaking and hard, especially when I spent an hour on constructing a post only to recieve a 2, but as I learned that it was more about teaching others, I began to perform better and was more motivated to teach something new and provide a cool resouce in diigo.
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My feelings about this course are great! I would recommend anyone interested in online course development to take the course with Alex. She makes everyone in the course feel welcome and comfortable, which is the key to being successful and having students who are motivated to working with her
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Relationships and feelings are one of the underlying keys to success in a course. If you have a teacher you like, don’t you want to work harder to please them? I know I do…and I know that I don’t really feel like working for someone who berates my feelings and is insensitive.
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Draft Recommendations; Stevens Institute of Technology; Web-Based Course Intellectual Property Rights
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this is the corporate web site for where I work. Alex is an artist and I have piece of his pottery in my garden. He is an absolute hoot and has a fabulous sense of humor, which he demonstrates non-verbally. I work with him in the group: Handicapables. Kevin is a soft spoken gentleman who I enjoyed working with as his employment counselor. Duffy is a trickster and works very hard also. these are just some of the wonderful people we serve. -
hi jane, very nice job here in diigo so far. can't remember if i already commented on your bookmarks. But they look great. The only thing missing are the tags. Need them to categorize and organize the things you bookmark. You can add them to these reaources by editing your bookmark. Often diigo will give you some prompts or ideas on what/how to tag the resource. : ) me
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For example, Mel Riddile points out that when one conditions on various measures of poverty, instead of trailing other nations, the U.S. actually comes out on top! He concludes that "when it comes to school improvement, it's poverty not stupid." Poverty causes educational deficiency.
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or example, Mel Riddile points out that when one conditions on various measures of poverty, instead of trailing other nations, the U.S. actually comes out on top! He concludes that "when it comes to school improvement, it's poverty not stupid." Poverty causes educational deficienc
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For example, Mel Riddile points out that when one conditions on various measures of poverty, instead of trailing other nations, the U.S. actually comes out on top! He concludes that "when it comes to school improvement, it's poverty not stupid." Poverty causes educational deficiency. Now, I like to actually have data to play around with, in part because people have been known to lie about politically charged issues and in part because I like to have nice graphs (which are not provided by Riddile). Anyway, it turns out that international poverty data is pretty hard to come by and fraught with interpretational difficulties. On the other hand, the National Assessment of Educational Progress provides test data for most of the states in the U.S., and the U.S. Census Bureau provides data on the percentage of people in poverty by state. I took the NAEP data for 8th grade science achievement and regressed on the percentage of people below the poverty line for the measured states. The two are negatively associated: as poverty increases, science achievement scores decrease according to the relationship in the plot below. (Alaska, Kansas, Nebraska, and Vermont did not meet NAEP reporting guidelines and are not included in the plot above.) The association is highly significant (p=9.98*10-6). I also took pilot NAEP data for 8th grade mathematics achievement and regressed on the percentage of people below the poverty line for the measured states. (Evidently, the NAEP has only just started testing for mathematics achievement, and only eleven states were included in their pilot.) Again, the two are negatively associated. The slope of the relation turns out to be almost exactly the same as for science achievement. The association is not as significant, but it is still significant (p=0.0186). (My guess is the association is less significant in this case because fewer states were measured.) Clearly there is an association between poverty and achievement in science and mathem
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Transformation via Online Learning - 4 views
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original target audience,
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Nontraditional, commuter, reentry are terms assigned to my target student population, which I refer to as adult learners. Adult learners are difficult to categorize, as the determinants are often arbitrary. Their demographic variables cut across a wide swath of the population. Ross Gordon (2011) refers to a set of shared characteristics which include: delayed entry or reentry to college, employment, and family and community responsibilities. They are also primarily part-time students. The group is typically described to be between the ages of 25-64. Reference Ross-Gordon, J. (2011). Research on adult learners: supporting the needs of a student population that longer nontraditional. Association of American Colleges and Universities. (Previously bookmarked in Diigo)
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adult online students
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I am assuming that adult online learners meet the six assumptions of Knowles' Andragogy learning theory. Traditional college students are often still formulating self-concepts and are involved in much more socialization on campus. Adult students are usually not seeking the social component and are driven by the immediate application of acquired skills and knowledge to life outside of the classroom. The University of Central Florida (UCF) drilled down into the age demographics of their adult student population and extrapolated generational data. Hartmann et al. (2005) reported results of a survey of nearly 1,500 online learners at UCF that shed light on generational differences in attitudes and expectations among students born during 1946- 1964 (the cohort authors nicknamed 'Baby Boomers'), students born during 1965-1980('Generation X') and others born during 1981-1994 (the so-called 'NetGen' students). The results noted that there were substantial differences between the cohorts as far as learning engagement, interaction value, and whether they changed their approach to learning as a result of their online experience. Hartmann, J., Patsy, M. & Chuck, D. (2005). Preparing the academy of today for the learner of tomorrow. In D. G. Oblinger & J. L. Oblinger (Eds.), Educating the Net Generation, pp. 6.1-6.15. Washington, DC: EDUCAUSE. Retrieved from http://www.educause.edu/research-and-publications/books/educating-net-generation/preparing-academy-today-learner-tomorrow (Bookmarked in Diigo)
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students who attend fully online
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Are these students that solely attend online classes? Do they attend classes on campus as well?
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traditional and non-traditional students i
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This perspective/distinction is very interesting/curious to me. I don't distinguish. I guess you mean traditional age college students vs. older "adult" students. In my mind they are all adults and they are all online students. Just an observation of my own perspective. : )
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The literature I have reviewed indicates that younger age college students may not like the lack of social interaction and find the online classroom's demands of extensive writing too laborious. I have also found a distance difference between the two groups in my own experience. Of course this is a broad generalization and there are exceptions.
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If undergrads enroll in online courses and do not actively participate, this will impact the development of critical thinking skills and meaningful learning outcomes for all students
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in my experience this "undergrad" or age variable is not significant. : )
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I think the maturity of the student matters greatly as far as motivation and level of participation. This would impact lower level undergrad courses much more. However, your experience proves that andragogy is not always defined by age.
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Jun 12th, 2014
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Satisfied. I am thrilled that I persevered and was able to complete the course. My Moodle course is far from stellar but I am pretty happy with the results of my maiden voyage.
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I know that I have learned that social presence and teaching presences are as important as cognitive presence. More to the point, I learned that as an online student my reluctance to focus on the social aspects of the online classroom may have inhibited community building.
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Morrison, D. (2014, February 28). Best methods and tools for online educators to give students helpful and meaningful feedback. Online Learning Insights. Retrieved from http://onlinelearninginsights.wordpress.com/2014/02/28/best-methods-and-tools-for-online-educators-to-give-students-helpful-and-meaningful-feedback/
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QUALITY IN ONLINE DELIVERY: WHAT DOES IT MEAN FOR ASSESSMENT IN E-LEARNING EN... - 0 views
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Diigo won't let me highlight on the PDFs! So I will comment instead: This article discusses how striving for quality in online education changes the assessments. Some themes are: -product or performance based assessment -students participate and contribute toward a learning community -self and peer assessment should be included
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Mary Huffman: ETAP640 reflections blog - 0 views
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IEP’s unless they are GIEP’s.
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I do wonder why the gender percentages are so different,
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ok. so this is a perfect opportunity to do some research. You have your thoughts, assumptions, ideas maybe about why, but can you find research to support our findings? If you have a question, answer it!!
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Since Latin is offered alongside other languages such as German, Spanish, and French, I assume that students who choose to take Latin are doing it for a reason, and are interested in a challenge.
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I think I will learn a lot about the students’ thought processes and understand which concepts they are grasping (or not).
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“I think that we take for granted the huge amount of information that we pass on to our students in a F2F classroom just by our presence and interaction with them (bathroom passes, appropriate conduct with each other, respect for the work and management of time) the aspects of education that never finds its way into our lesson plans. In many ways in learning to teach online we are having to learn how to teach again, to focus on the minutiae that is generally accepted we do, to take nothing for granted, assume nothing and to take the entire content of our and every moment of that course (every moment of 8+ weeks) and place it in text form in a virtual environmen
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It isn’t easy to write a good discussion question, but it is essential for a productive discussion.
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I understand how and why I did it, and I could do it again.
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One cool thing about this course is the ‘meta’ quality.
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what is best for the students. How can we serve our students? Are we doing the best we can to teach them? Are we teaching appropriate and relevant courses? Are we being interactive, engaging, are we even able to keep up with our students technology-wise? Do we adapt and change our methods to keep up with their demands, or try to force our students to adapt to our methods?
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Hedy's reflective blog | Online course blog - 0 views
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I feel like I have already learned a great deal.
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To start with many new Web 2.0 tools, that pre-occupied me for a major part of the first week of class. No doubt I struggled with setting up the blog, learning diigo, voicethread, etc. But throughout the frustration, I really enjoyed learning how to use these new tools and very happy to now have them in my elearning toolset! It is very exciting to see all of the great interactive tools available on the web to aid with online teaching an learning!
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http://ualbany.mrooms.net/file.php/242/readings/v8n3_pelz.pdf http://www.criticalthinking.org/pages/the-role-of-questions-in-teaching-thinking-and-learning/524
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hedy: can you make links live in your blog? they make interaction and reading your blog more engaging. : )
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Maree’s post.
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The Digital Citizen - My Sojourn in the World of Web 2.0 by Irene Watts-Politza - 3 views
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“You are interacting with one single individual at all times. There is no ‘class’ …”
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“Design a course with the student perspective, one who has never taken an online course before” (Pickett, What Works?).
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Great advice! I have a hard time sometimes with this, because there's part of me that also wants to design it for someone who not only hasn't taken an online course, but perhaps isn't very tech savvy :-)
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I must find a balance, however, in order to complete the necessary tasks well so I can savor the doing of those that have salience.
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I need to find balance myself. I think the only reason the way I'm doing things right now is ok is because I live alone. I will eventually have a family, and I want to be an online instructor...I will certainly need to figure this out!
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I realized that the online environment is actually a type of classroom; is that why course language includes such terms as “area”, and “room”?
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The resulting ah ha moments became the core of my entry …
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One activity that I am especially excited to observe is the students tweeting from their placements when they make a course- to- practice connection.
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How am I simultaneously learning how to be an online student and instructor?
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Something that has been proven to work is frequent, immediate instructor feedback.
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This is a HUGE difference I notice between Alex and other instructors. She has definitely built her social presence with me this way. Her podcast on my learning activities was an eye opener for me. It made me feel so good that she had ACTUALLY looked at my work! I have often wondered if other teachers REALLY did that.
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Reflecting on the online course design process, I realize I have made a tremendous transition from first-time student to instructor in the space of one semester. What I have learned about myself is that I have an affinity for designing in the online environment.
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I am technology-proficient.
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While I am not yet a full technophile, I am surely no longer a technophobe!
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I so deeply enjoyed the reading and studying portion of this course … it opened a new world of theory to me, made more exciting by the historic proximity of the leading researchers in the field.
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I kept telling myself, “You need the experience if you want to be an instructional designer!”
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So, reflection has proven its worth yet again: reflecting on my work in designing EED406 thus far is proof that research-based best practice works.
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discussion is the heart of online learning.
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students’ learning is demonstrated through the vehicle of discussion.
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blog posts are personalized records of learning, thinking, and being.
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It is not about what the instructor wants to hear, it is about hearing the student’s articulation of what is being learned that is essential to evaluating the content of a blog post.
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Through trying to be “fearless” about using technology, as Alex advises, I have come to learn that confidence is something that one must exercise in all spheres of the online environment.
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we can not help but to teach when we learn and to learn when we teach.
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“As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.” This is certainly true of discussion forum. We learn with and for each other: as you learn, I learn.
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I have spent my academic life I believing that I have to ‘go it alone’, since I walked home from school alone the first day of first grade. Strangely, this course, in which I spend so much time alone, is teaching me that I don’t.
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It causes me to reflect on the similarities between online and physical communities, something I had not thought of before. Could it be that we really are, slowly and steadily, growing into a genuine community?
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I am a student whose understanding of connectivism and heutagogy is being developed experientially through taking this course.
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Teaching presence also involves anticipating students’ needs based on monitoring progress and being ready to find that perfect something to support the student’s learning.
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(Think Twitter, Irene!)
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complaints, above, I think about the layout of the course; if it’s too many clicks away or the explanations aren’t clear, students become anxious, lose interest, and possibly
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I just finished what may be my last discussion post for ETAP640. As I went through the post process, I was cognizant of each step: read your classmates’ posts; respond to something that resonates within you; teach (us) something by locating and sharing resources that support your thinking; include the thinking and experiences of classmates; offer your opinion on what you are sharing; cite your resources for the benefit of all; tag your resources logically.
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Student Reflections @wattspoi on "Heutagogy & its Implications for Evaluative Feedback" http://t.co/xiuWsCsD #lrnchat #edchat