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Preparing Instructors for Quality Online Instruction - 0 views

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shared by TESOL CALL-IS on 09 Oct 12 - Cached
  • http://www.westga.edu/%7Edistance/ojdla/spring81/yang81.htm Preparing Instructors for Quality Online Instruction Yi Yang Ph.D. Candidate Department of Instructional Systems, Leadership, and Workforce Development Mississippi State University yy47@colled.msstate.edu Linda F. Cornelious, Ph.D. Professor Department of Instructional Systems, Leadership, and Workforce Development Mississippi State University lcornelious@colled.msstate.edu Abstract With a growing number of courses offered online and degrees offered through the Internet, there is a considerable interest in online education, particularly as it relates to the quality of online instruction. The major concerns are centering on the following questions: What will be the new role for instructors in online education? How will students' learning outcomes be assured and improved in online learning environment? How will effective communication and interaction be established with students in the absence of face-to-face instruction? How will instructors motivate students to learn in the online learning environment? This paper will examine new challenges and barriers for online instructors, highlight major themes prevalent in the literature related to “quality control or assurance” in online education, and provide practical strategies for instructors to design and deliver effective online instruction. Recommendations will be made on how to prepare instructors for quality online instruction.
  • TESOL CALL-IS on 09 Oct 12
     
    What is the new role for instructions in online learning environments? How will students communicate and interact? How will students be motivated? We are still wrestling with these questions.
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ESL Writing Online Workshop (ESL-WOW) - 6 views

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shared by TESOL CALL-IS on 23 Apr 13 - No Cached
  • TESOL CALL-IS on 23 Apr 13
     
    "The ESL Writing Online Workshop is an online multimedia program designed to guide non-native speakers of English through each stage of the pre-writing, while-writing, and post-writing processes: 1) Getting Ready to Write, 2) Developing Your Ideas, 3) Revising Your Work, and 4) Editing and Polishing. This online resource is designed for community college students and adult learners. "ESL-WOW is hosted at Excelsior College. it is part of the Excelsior College Online Writing Lab (OWL). Please email info@eslwow.org for more information. " This is a great site for ESL writers at the college/academic level and has supporting videos for each step in the writing process.
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Teaching Online in the 21st Century - 4 views

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online-teaching flipped-classroom online-learning VSL

shared by TESOL CALL-IS on 05 Dec 15 - No Cached
  • TESOL CALL-IS on 05 Dec 15
     
    "Teaching in the 21st Century demands instructors adapt their methods and learn new skills. In an effort to support best practices, we've compiled resources for current and future online educators to help generate quality online education." A list of references on various aspects of online teaching, including authentication of student work, flipping classes, developing engaging courses, best practices, etc.
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Instructional Strategies for Online Courses - 3 views

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pedagogy teacher-training VSL

shared by TESOL CALL-IS on 01 May 13 - Cached
  • The online learning environment allows educators and students to exchange ideas and information, work together on projects, around the clock, from anywhere in the world, using multiple communication modes. Given the advantages and resources of this rich learning environment, how can multiple instructional strategies best be utilized for online learning? Just as in the traditional classroom, instructional strategies are most effective when employed specifically to meet particular learning goals and objectives. Effective course design can begin with asking and answering the key question: what are the major learning goals and objectives for this course?
  • TESOL CALL-IS on 01 May 13
     
    An excellent outline of teaching models for courses offered in an online environment. "The online learning environment allows educators and students to exchange ideas and information, work together on projects, around the clock, from anywhere in the world, using multiple communication modes. Given the advantages and resources of this rich learning environment, how can multiple instructional strategies best be utilized for online learning? Just as in the traditional classroom, instructional strategies are most effective when employed specifically to meet particular learning goals and objectives. Effective course design can begin with asking and answering the key question: what are the major learning goals and objectives for this course? "
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YouTube - MERLOTPlace's Channel - 0 views

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teachers pedagogy online_learning research VSL

shared by TESOL CALL-IS on 18 May 09 - No Cached
  • MERLOT - Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching - is an online community where you can find peer reviewed online teaching and learning materials, share advice and expertise about education with expert colleagues, and be recognized for your contributions to quality education.These videos provide instruction on the MERLOT environment, highlight some of our award-winning materials, and offer keynote addresses from our annual international conference.
  • TESOL CALL-IS on 18 May 09
     
    MERLOT - Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching - is an online community where you can find peer reviewed online teaching and learning materials, share advice and expertise about education with expert colleagues, and be recognized for your contributions to quality education. These videos provide instruction on the MERLOT environment, highlight some of our award-winning materials, and offer keynote addresses from our annual international conference.
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Web Accessibility Checklist - 2 views

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shared by TESOL CALL-IS on 21 Apr 13 - No Cached
  • TESOL CALL-IS on 21 Apr 13
     
    A downloadable, free web accessibilty checklist: "Whether your course includes one web assignment or is a full-blown online journey, you're developing and managing online content for your students, who may have disabilities like "…blindness and low vision, deafness and hearing loss, learning disabilities, cognitive limitations, limited movement, speech disabilities, photosensitivity, and combinations of these. "And just like your instructional material, your online content should be understandable-and accessible-by your diverse students. Your online content should include the basic web accessibility features."
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Online Educational Delivery Models: A Descriptive View (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUCAUSE.edu - 2 views

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shared by TESOL CALL-IS on 25 Feb 13 - No Cached
  • TESOL CALL-IS on 25 Feb 13
     
    "What does this emerging landscape of educational delivery models look like? I have categorized the models not just in terms of modality-ranging from face-to-face to fully online-but also in terms of the method of course design (see Figure 1). These two dimensions allow a richer understanding of the new landscape of educational delivery models. Within this landscape, the following primary models have emerged: ad hoc online courses and programs, fully online programs, School-as-a-Service, educational partnerships, competency-based education, blended/hybrid courses and the flipped classroom, and MOOCs (see Figure 2)." This article has excellent graphis and visuals to help explain his categories.
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Creating Online material « My Integrating Technology journey - 1 views

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tools online_teaching online_lessons adult_learners teachers VSL

shared by TESOL CALL-IS on 23 Mar 10 - Cached
  • TESOL CALL-IS on 23 Mar 10
     
    "This year in February I moderated week 5 of Becoming a Webhead 2009. As a natural researcher I had to investigate these tools and their educational potential. Below you will find a list of the different tools that can make our teaching excel and our imagination grow. Be ready to create quizzes, online sheets, interactive exercises and online surveys." This looks like a set of very useful tools to use online and off.
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The Best Ways For Students To Create Their Own Online Art Collections | Larry Ferlazzo'... - 0 views

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  • TESOL CALL-IS on 17 May 09
     
    Many art museum websites offer users the ability to choose favorites from their online exhibitions and create an online exhibition. The best also let you write captions and describe these individualized collections, and then allow you to post the link on a website or blog. This kind of activity provides lots of language-development opportunities for all levels of English Language Learners. so I thought it would be a good topic for a "The Best…" list. You can find links to all the sites on this list, and other "art collection" sites that didn't quite make the grade, on my website under Student Art Collections. Of course, students can also create collections of art work they've have created online. You can find those sites at The Best Art Websites For Learning English.
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10 Best Websites to Create Free Cartoons from Your Photos | ZDWired - 3 views

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digital-storytelling tools writing young-learner adult-learners digital-literacy VSL

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  • TESOL CALL-IS on 25 May 17
     
    "Creating cartoon avatar of yourself is fun and interesting. You can convert your photos into cartoon effects using free online tools which you can use on your online profiles like Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter and any other place you want." This article suggests almost a dozen online applications to make cartoons out of photos. Find a useful tool for your students to use in digital storytelling.
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Teaching Online - A Time Comparison - 0 views

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shared by TESOL CALL-IS on 09 Oct 12 - Cached
  • Teaching Online - A Time Comparison Joseph Cavanaugh, Ph.D. Associate Professor Of Economics Wright State University, LC joseph.cavanaugh@wright.edu Abstract The success of distance courses has prompted universities nationwide to increase the number of courses offered online. As the number of these courses has increased, the challenges involved in developing and offering them have become more apparent. One particular difficulty when teaching in an online format is that it can be more time-consuming than teaching in a traditional in-class format. This case study investigates this issue through the use of a detailed comparison of the time required to prepare and teach a traditional course, and that required for the same course presented in an online format. The additional time required by the online format is found to result largely from increased student contact and individualized instruction and not from the use of technology per se.
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Innovate - MMOGs as Learning Environments: An Ecological Journey into Quest Atlantis an... - 0 views

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problem-based MMOG pedagogy research VSL

shared by TESOL CALL-IS on 01 Mar 13 - No Cached
  • they identify and define nine principles of learning that allow such games to have valuable potential as tools for educators: the perception-action cycle, embodied cognition, social attributes of situated learning, boundary constraints on behavioral trajectories, affordance-effectivity duals, goal-directed action, contextualized learning, repetition, and detection of the raison d'être. They then provide examples of these principles in the case of two MMOGs—The Sims Online and Quest Atlantis—in order to illustrate the potential of this technology to enhance student learning in educational contexts.
  • TESOL CALL-IS on 01 Mar 13
     
    A paper describing massively multiplayer online games for situated learning, which give students a chance to operate in a simulated environment and share with other online players through chat. (Second Life has now become the standard for MMOGs.)
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The Top 27 Free Tools to collaborate, hold discussions, and Backchannel with Students ~... - 0 views

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shared by TESOL CALL-IS on 26 Mar 13 - No Cached
  • TESOL CALL-IS on 26 Mar 13
     
    "With the advance of web 2.0 technologies, there emerged a wide range of educational tools that we can use with our students in and outside the classroom.Collaborative web tools is one example. Using such websites, teachers will be able to help in holding online and real-time discussions with their students, help them in their projects and assignments, guide their learning, do backchanneling, and synchronously moderate discussion threads and many more." The focus here is on tools for collaboration. Many are new and interesting, such as virtual whiteboards, searchteam to do online searches together, browse websites together, create online projects collaboratively, create your own chatroom, etc.. Some of these will be gone quickly, but they all appear quite useful. About 30 in the list.
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Blended Learning: Combining Face-to-Face and Online Education | Edutopia - 4 views

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pedagogy teachers teacher-training online_teaching VSL

shared by TESOL CALL-IS on 28 Oct 12 - No Cached
  • TESOL CALL-IS on 28 Oct 12
     
    "I have found that many who dream of online learning somehow imagine a virtual school where the teachers are no more than those who load up the assignments and set up the learning management system. But by taking actual teaching out of the distance learning equation, we are dooming distance learning to mere correspondence course status." An interesting blog post on the need for teacher-student interactions in the world of online learning. But I would hasten to add that it doesn't have to be f2f or blended -- it could be in a video conferenced setting as well.
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Six ways to keep teenagers safe online | Macworld - 1 views

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  • TESOL CALL-IS on 14 Nov 13
     
    "A few years ago, all I had to do to keep my kids safe online was set up the family computer in a well-trafficked room and walk by every so often. Now, my daughters are 12 and 14, and each has her own iPhone. Their online lives are lived in WhatsApp, Facebook comments, texts, and occasional emails. They regularly interact with kids I've never met. While they're (probably) smart enough not to reveal information to strangers they've never met, my daughters are at risk for cyberbullying (both being bullied and being bullies), overexposure on social networks, and even sexual solicitation. " Some good cyber rules to keep kids from destroying their own lives.
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10 Things I've Learned (So Far) from Making a Meta-MOOC - 0 views

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shared by TESOL CALL-IS on 09 Aug 15 - No Cached
  • Technology has a way of making people lose their marbles — both the hype and the hysteria we saw a year ago were ridiculous.  It is good that society in general is hitting the pause button. Is there a need for online education? Absolutely. Are MOOCs the best way? Probably not in most situations, but possibly in some, and, potentially, in a future iteration, massive learning possibilities well might offer something to those otherwise excluded from higher education (by reasons of cost, time, location, disability, or other impediments).
  • Also, in the flipped classroom model, there is no cost saving; in fact, there is more individual attention. The MOOC video doesn’t save money since, we know, it requires all the human and technological apparatus beyond the video in order to be effective. A professor has many functions in a university beyond giving a lecture — including research, training future graduate students, advising, and running the university, teaching specialized advance courses, and moving fields of knowledge forward.
  • My face-to-face students will learn about the history and future of higher education partly by serving as “community wranglers” each week in the MOOC, their main effort being to transform the static videos into participatory conversations.  
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  • I’ve been humbled all over again by the innovation, ingenuity, and dedication of teachers — to their field, to their subject matter, and to anonymous students worldwide. My favorite is Professor Al Filreis of the University of Pennsylvania who teaches ModPo (Modern and Contemporary American Poetry) as a seminar.  Each week students, onsite and online, discuss a poem in real time. There are abundant office hours, discussion leaders, and even a phone number you can call to discuss your interpretations of the week’s poem. ModPo students are so loyal that, when Al gave a talk at Duke, several of his students drove in from two and three states away to be able to testify to how much they cherished the opportunity to talk about poetry together online. Difficult contemporary poets who had maybe 200 readers before now have thousands of passionate fans worldwide.
  • Interestingly, MOOCs turn out to be a great advertisement for the humanities too. There was a time when people assumed MOOC participants would only be interested in technical or vocational training. Surprise! It turns out people want to learn about culture, history, philosophy, social issues of all kinds. Even in those non-US countries where there is no tradition of liberal arts or general education, people are clamoring to both general and highly specialized liberal arts courses.
  • First let’s talk about the MOOC makers, the professors. Once the glamor goes away, why would anyone make a MOOC? I cannot speak for anyone else — since it is clear that there is wide variation in how profs are paid to design MOOCs — so let me just tell you my arrangement. I was offered $10,000 to create and teach a MOOC. Given the amount of time I’ve spent over the last seven months and that I anticipate once the MOOC begins, that’s less than minimum wage. I do this as an overload; it in no way changes my Duke salary or job requirement. More to the point, I will not be seeing a penny of that stipend. It’s in a special account that goes to the TAs for salary, to travel for the assistants to go to conferences for their own professional development, for travel to make parts of the MOOC that we’ve filmed at other locations, for equipment, and so forth. If I weren’t learning so much and enjoying it so much or if it weren’t entirely voluntary (no one put me up to this!), it would be a rip off. I have control over whether my course is run again or whether anyone else could use it.
  • Interestingly, since MOOCs, I have heard more faculty members — senior and junior — talking about the quality of teaching and learning than I have ever heard before in my career.
  • 9. The best use of MOOCs may not be to deliver uniform content massively but to create communities and networks of passionate learners galvanized around a particular topic of shared interest. To my mind, the potential for thousands of people to work together in local and distributed learning communities is very exciting. In a world where news has devolved into grandstanding, badgering, hyperbole, accusation, and sometimes even falsehood, I love the greater public good of intelligent, thoughtful, accurate, reliable content on deep and important subjects — whether algebra, genomics, Buddhist scripture, ethics, cryptography, classical music composition, or parallel programming (to list just a few offerings coming up on the Coursera platform). It is a huge public good when millions and millions of people worldwide want to be more informed, educated, trained, or simply inspired.
  • The “In our meta-MOOC” seems to me to be an over complication, and is in fact describing the original MOOC (now referred to as cMOOC) based around concepts of Connectivism (Downes & Siemens) itself drawing on Communities of Practice theory of learning (Wenger). This work was underway in 2008 http://halfanhour.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/mooc-resurgence-of-community-in-online.html
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50 List of Free Online Photo Editing Tools | blueblots.com - 1 views

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shared by TESOL CALL-IS on 07 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • TESOL CALL-IS on 07 Nov 10
     
    "Editing an image is very popular these days due to the innovation of graphic software programs that will allow us to create computer arts from scratch. However, we could also enhance, add some cool effects and customize the look of our images easily without having the need of these soft wares through the online photo editors. An online photo editor tool allows us to edit and manipulate a photo in the Web Browser. This is more advantageous compared to the softwares for editing an image as this could not consume much of the memory of your desktop and the processing is done faster by the server. With just a few clicks, we could now be able to customize our own photos, create funny photos from our pictures or even feature ourselves in a magazine cover like that of a celebrity."
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Ten Free Web 2.0 Tools for the Classroom | Once a Teacher…. - 1 views

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  • TESOL CALL-IS on 21 Mar 11
     
    "Teachers who want to put web 2.0 technologies to work for them can find many different free options online. There are tools for creating online classrooms, social networks, student podcasts, web-based flashcards, elearning modules, and much more. Here are 10 free web 2.0 tools for teachers to try in the classroom this year." The first of these, Engrade, looks like it would be useful as an online assignment calendar, gradebook, IM, and progress report system.
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Study Finds That Online Education Beats the Classroom - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • TESOL CALL-IS on 09 Sep 09
     
    A recent 93-page report on online education, conducted by SRI International for the Department of Education, has a starchy academic title, but a most intriguing conclusion: "On average, students in online learning conditions performed better than those receiving face-to-face instruction."
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Free Technology for Teachers: 7 Ways to Create and Deliver Online Quizzes - 3 views

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shared by TESOL CALL-IS on 03 Aug 13 - No Cached
  • TESOL CALL-IS on 03 Aug 13
     
    From R. Byrne: "Creating and delivering quizzes and tests online offers a number of advantages over paper-based quizzes and tests. Many online quiz services allow you to create quizzes that give your students instant feedback. Some of the services provide the option to include picture and video prompts in your quizzes. And all of these services save you the hassle of printing your quizzes. "
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