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Burks Oakley

MANAGING ONLINE EDUCATION: The 2009 WCET-Campus Computing Project Survey of Online Educ... - 0 views

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    Great new survey from KC Green at the Campus Computing Project.
Burks Oakley

Trustee may learn identify of anonymous Internet poster - Chicago Breaking News - 0 views

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    Good article about Internet privacy
Justin Powers

Finally Enlightened - 1 views

started by Justin Powers on 19 Mar 13 no follow-up yet
Justin Eastwind

Earth-Friendly Bamboo - 1 views

started by Justin Eastwind on 10 Apr 13 no follow-up yet
Burks Oakley

H1N1 absences lead to creative teaching methods - 0 views

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    Good article about using technology to reach students quarantined due to H1N1 illness.
Burks Oakley

The Wired Campus - Utah State U.'s OpenCourseWare Closes Because of Budget Woes - The C... - 0 views

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    This is a perfect example of what happens when the Hewlett grants run out - they don't have any separate source of revenue to support their efforts.
Burks Oakley

News: What Doomed Global Campus? - Inside Higher Ed - 0 views

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    Good article about why the University of Illinois Global Campus failed.
Burks Oakley

Community College Online Course Retention and Final Grade: Predictability of Social Pre... - 0 views

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    Good research study about the importance of social presence to student success in online courses.
Burks Oakley

Who's Driving Twitter's Popularity? Not Teenagers - NYTimes.com - 1 views

  • Though Twitter’s founders originally conceived of the site as a way to stay in touch with acquaintances, it turns out that it is better for broadcasting ideas or questions and answers to the outside world or for marketing a product.
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      This is the power of Twitter - in forming a "personal learning network".
Burks Oakley

News: H1N1 Scenarios - Inside Higher Ed - 0 views

  • Expand or create distance learning programs for those who need to be isolated.
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      This is very important - we have "Blackboard for All" at UIS - so we are ready for this.
Burks Oakley

Innovate: Positioning Faculty Support as a Strategy in Assuring Quality Online Education - 0 views

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    Good paper about the need for strong faculty support in developing quality online courses - access to full article requires free registration
Burks Oakley

News: Teaching the Quarantined - Inside Higher Ed - 0 views

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    Teaching the Quarantined
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    Teaching the Quarantined - good article about how the Univ. of Michigan is preparing to serve students who may contract the H1N1 virus this coming year
Burks Oakley

Gorsky - 0 views

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    Really good research paper about how an instructor can impact an online class.
Emily Boles

JOLT - Journal of Online Learning and Teaching - 0 views

  • tand the pedagogy of the adult learner.  To use the online tools effectively, instructors must be familiar with the technology available to them as well as how to use it. This paper describes effective andragogical methods for adult instruction. It will also present the available tools and the method and reason for using them. By reviewing the research of current methods of instruction, a road map to course design will be recommended. There are effective techniques to
  • ture, discussion, lab, and practice. They move the course to the online environment using the same
Burks Oakley

WMICentral - From other pens - The future of education is online - 0 views

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    Good summary of online education as a disruptive technology.
Daniel Sprotte

Libraries Losing Teens - 1/1/2006 - School Library Journal - 0 views

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    Older article on teens and libraries but still interesting
Jeffrey Kendall

Debate: Is text messaging causing the destruction of the English language? - Helium - 0 views

  • They've become so used to this informal language, that they cannot write formally when they need to.
  • If you look at texting as a bad thing towards talking and ruining face to face communication skills, then lets take a look at that. If they're texting you, but won't talk to you face to face, maybe they haven't had very good confrontational skills to begin with, maybe that person wouldn't be talk to you at all if he/she didn't have texting as a way to talk to you.
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    Debate as to whether or not texting is damaging the English language. Good for anyone looking at the effect of the internet on society
Delilah Cole

How the iPhone Could Reboot Education | Gadget Lab | Wired.com - 0 views

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    A quick overview of Abilene Christian Universities iPhone pilot program.
Burks Oakley

State of Washington to Offer Online Materials, Instead of Textbooks, for 2-Year College... - 1 views

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    Great to see the State of Washington embracing Open Educational Resources!
Burks Oakley

The Case for the Virtual Classroom - 0 views

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    Excellent summary of why online education is important - and why it will grow in the near future.
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