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Best Practices in Online Teaching - During Teaching - Assess Messages in Online Discuss... - 0 views

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    "This module focuses on how to assess student messages in an online discussion forum when teaching in an online environment. This module is part of the Best Practices in Online Teaching Course created by Penn State University World Campus as a guide for faculty who are new to teaching in an online environment."
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JOLT - Journal of Online Learning and Teaching - 0 views

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    "In this paper, we use Bain's (2004) book What the Best College Teachers Do to discuss some of the major ways that the practices of effective teaching in general can be applied to online teaching in particular. "
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Starting to Teach Online - 0 views

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    Thoughts on what not to do and how to rethink how you will teach online
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How to Teach Online - Community - Google+ - 0 views

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    for cMOOC How to Teach Online
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http://www.mnsu.edu/cetl/teachingwithtechnology/tech_resources_pdf/Ten%20Principles%20o... - 0 views

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    10 Principles of Effective Online Teaching: Best Practices in Distance Education - Report
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IMPLEMENTING THE SEVEN PRINCIPLES - Chickering and Ehrmann - 1 views

  • The biggest success story in this realm has been that of time-delayed (asynchronous) communication. Traditionally, time-delayed communication took place in education through the exchange of homework, either in class or by mail (for more distant learners). Such time-delayed exchange was often a rather impoverished form of conversation, typically limited to three conversational turns: The instructor poses a question (a task). The student responds (with homework). The instructor responds some time later with comments and a grade. The conversation often ends there; by the time the grade or comment is received, the course and student are off on new topics. Now, however, electronic mail, computer conferencing, and the World Wide Web increase opportunities for students and faculty to converse and exchange work much more speedily than before, and more thoughtfully and “safely” than when confronting each other in a classroom or faculty office. Total communication increases and, for many students, the result seems more intimate, protected, and convenient than the more intimidating demands of face-to-face communication with faculty.
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    Chickering and Gamson's Seven Principles of Good Practice in Undergraduate Education, provide a meaningful lens for thinking about online teaching and learning.
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How to use blogs for learning and teaching - 0 views

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Half an Hour: MOOC - The Resurgence of Community in Online Learning - 0 views

  • My understanding of the term ‘MOOC’ is a bit different; it is derived from a theory of learning based on engagement and interaction within a community of practitioners, without predetermined outcomes, and without a body of knowledge that we can simply ‘transfer’ to the learner.
  • “to teach is to model and to demonstrate; to learn is to practice and reflect.”
  • What we are attempting to repeat on a massive scale in a MOOC is not the delivery of instruction or the management of learning resources. We are trying to emulate, on a massive scale, these small-scale and personal one-to-one interactions. It is this interaction that is the most significant in learning, but also often the most important, and for a course to be truly massive, it must enable, and even encourage, hundreds or even thousands of these small interpersonal interactions.
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  • ‘wrapped’ MOOCs, which postulate the use of a MOOC within the context of a traditional location-based course; the material offered by the MOOC is hence ‘wrapped’ with the trappings of a more traditional education. This is the sort of approach to MOOCs which treats them more as modern-day textbooks, rather than as courses in and of themselves.  
  • Our thesis that knowledge is distributed across a network of connections, and therefore that learning consists of the ability to construct and traverse those networks. Knowledge, therefore, is not acquired, as though it were a thing. It is not transmitted, as though it were some type of communication. You can’t ‘promote’ something simply by assembling course packages and sending them out into the world.
  • The idea of a connectivist course is that a learner is immersed within a community of practitioners and introduced to ways of doing the sorts of things practitioners do, and through that practice, becomes more similar in act, thought and values to members of that community.
  • So what a connectivist course becomes is a community of educators attempting to learn how it is that they learn, with the objective of allowing them to be able to help other people learn. We are all educators, or at least, learning to be educators, creating and promoting the (connective) practice of education by actually practicing it.
  • he course design gradually began to look less and less like a traditional course, and more like a network, with a wide range of resources connected to each other and to participants. And the course became much less about acquiring content or skills, and much more about making these connections, and learning from what emerged as a result of them.
  • Learning is a social activity, and that is why the picture of distance learning wherein each person studies from their own home, supported by a personal computer and desk videophone, is wrong.
  • one of the keys is ownership. By that, what I mean is that the members of the community play a key role in shaping the community.
  • It is not a place where the organizer provides material and the members consume it. It is a shared and constructed environment, where the members along with the organizers play roughly equal roles in content creation.
  • The MOOC is for us a device created in order to connect these distributed voices together, not to create community, not to create culture, but to create a place where community and culture can flourish,
  • People talk of ‘learning communities’ but strictly speaking there is no such thing as a ‘learning community’ – save, perhaps, the strained and artificial creations of educational institutions that try to cram classes into collectives, creating personal relationships where none naturally exist.
  • The value of a community, however, and especially of a learning community, comes from the diversity in the community. Students gather around an instructor precisely because the instructor has knowledge, beliefs and opinions that the students don’t share. They gather around each other because they each have unique experiences. Fostering a learning community is as much a matter of drawing on the differences as it is a matter of underlining the similarities.
  • To learn is not to acquire or to accumulate, but rather, to develop or to grow. The process of learning is a process of becoming, a process of developing one’s own self.
  • ecent discussions of MOOCs have focused almost exclusively on the online community, with almost no discussion of the individual learner, and no discussion peer community. But to my mind over time all three elements will be seen to be equally important.
  • We might also define three key roles in online learning: the student, the instructor, and the facilitator. The ‘instructor’ is the person responsible for the online community, while the ‘facilitator’ is the person responsible for the peer community.
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Instructor Presence in the Online Class - Key to Learner Success | online learning insi... - 0 views

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    online learning insights blog
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Creating a community of inquiry in online environments: An exploratory study on the eff... - 0 views

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    Zydney et al. Creating a community of inquiry in online environments: An exploratory study on the effect of a protocol on interactions within asynchronous discussions"
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George Siemens "Designing, development, and running (massive) open Online Courses | abo... - 0 views

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    A lengthy but good overview of MOOCs, with a close look at xMOOCS - Coursera, Udacity, edX that have taken advantage of scalability but tend to reinforce a traditional teacher-student model, and cMOOCS - knowledge building/networking, flexible tools, self directed, chaotic learning. Siemens goes on to share lessons learned from cMOOCs he has been involved with and provides 9 Steps How to Plan/Create a MOOC [approx 58:00] Around 18:00 he makes a provocative statement that because of the expertise available in xMOOCs, he would throw out all of his content, tell his students to take one of these courses, interact with them around the content themes and then assess their work. Other interesting ideas include: the need for regional MOOCs to diversify and fully explore potential innovation [export vs import]; the concern that mid-range universities stand to loose to the 'superstar' professors in the xMOOC model; & the notion of teaching globally, accrediting locally [e.g. Udacity -Pearson testing option for credit]
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http://eac595b.pbworks.com/f/macknight+2000+questions%5B1%5D.pdf - 0 views

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    MacKnight - Teaching Critical Thinking Through Online Discussion
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One Size Doesn't Fit All: HyFlex Lets Students Choose | EDUCAUSE - 0 views

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    "Key Takeaways Large lecture courses are often required of an institution's newest learners, who lack skills to help them succeed. To open alternative paths through these courses, a team at Ohio State University redesigned an intro-level econ course that typically serves more than 600 students at a time. Part of the redesign includes offering these students a hybrid flexible (HyFlex) lecture option that lets them choose to experience lectures in the classroom or online through a live stream at a location of their choosing. Other technologies reduce logistical overhead, letting instructors spend more time teaching and helping students, and less time dealing with basic questions about course rules, schedules, and so on."
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Designing online learning for the 21st century - 0 views

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    reference from Bates webinar
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Taylor & Francis Online :: Learner‐interface interaction in distance educatio... - 0 views

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    Hillman et al (1994) 4th kind of interaction [follow up to Moore 1989)
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