Communication is key to successful online teaching as well. Being present on the course site and answering questions directed to me are a given, but I also work at consistent updating. If I’m traveling to speak at a library or conference, I let my students know. If I’m at a conference, I’ll share links and insights. My students have done the same, using Twitter or their class blogs to share their own opinions and takeaways from attending professional conferences. The sharing and communication can be informal, and it strengthens the feeling of community.
The best teachers understand that technology use in coursework is not just for the sake of technology but to extend and enhance the learning process. Recently, Michael Wesch from the University of Kansas responded to an article about his advocacy for participatory technologies in coursework. His eloquent statement resonates with me: “My main point is that participatory teaching methods simply will not work if they do not begin with a deep bond between teacher and student. Importantly, this bond must be built through mutual respect, care, and an ongoing effort to know and understand one another.”
The sage on the stage in giant lecture halls is giving way to a collaborative, hyperconnected world of newer methods and channels of learning, but the human connection can and should remain. Bring yourself to your online teaching – share, be authentic and connect with students via the heart and the keyboard.
Five Critical Elements of Any Adult Education Program - The EvoLLLution | The EvoLLLution - 3 views
Seven Skills Students Need for Their Future - 1 views
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1. Critical thinking and problem-solving 2. Collaboration across networks and leading by influence 3. Agility and adaptability 4. Initiative and entrepreneurialism 5. Effective oral and written communication 6. Accessing and analyzing information 7. Curiosity and imagination Someone makes a point in the comments. "Dr. Wagner states that "we have no idea how to teach or assess these skills." How about the idea of 'letting learners watch someone already possessing these skills, exercise these skills'....what happens if teachers can act like students - 'showing them how to gain the knowledge, using resources made available, from someone who possesses the knowledge already', rather than attempting to teach such knowledge.
The Flipped Classroom: Turning the Traditional Classroom on its Head - 3 views
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EML info
Measuring the Success of Online Education - NYTimes.com - 1 views
The Taming of the MOOC-- using ePortfolio Evidence - 9 views
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"Are students really learning from what could seem merely a very, very large lecture hall? If they are learning by participating in MOOCs, how can we know that? And how can that learning be better documented and visible?"
Is Google Making Us Stupid? - Nicholas Carr - The Atlantic - 5 views
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" In the world of '2001: A Space Odyssey', people have become so machinelike that the most human character turns out to be a machine. That's the essence of Kubrick's dark prophecy: as we come to rely on computers to mediate our understanding of the world, it is our own intelligence that flattens into artificial intelligence."
Online courses need human element to educate - 9 views
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"..the best of MOOCs should be able to bring together ideal, heterogeneous groupings of students based on their profiles and past performance, and also create ample opportunities for them to engage with one another in the spirit of learning. Perhaps this spirit of mutual aid is what built the Internet in the first place. Now that this massive collaborative learning project has succeeded, it would be a shame if we used it to take the humanity out of learning altogether."
Professor Creates Engaging Online Learning Environment | SJSU News - 1 views
10 Ways Augmented Reality Could Change Learning Experience | Classroom Aid - 2 views
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"apps utilizing your GPS location can provide information about the historical landmark you are viewing. With AR technology, that landmark or statue could essentially come to life on your screen and tell you its story first hand."
Living in a Post-Human World | Michio Kaku | Big Think - 0 views
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"We will become the gods that we once feared."
Big Themes in Learning - 1 views
The Guardian Books - Guardian Books podcast: The future - dystopia or utopia? | Mixcloud - 1 views
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"The future - dystopia or utopia?" 30 minute podcast from the Guardian
Gourlay & Oliver: Curation, combat coping? Student entanglements with technologies in HE - 0 views
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More interesting work from Lesley Gourlay
lastrefuge: E-Learning and Digital Cultures - 2 views
BBC Radio 4 - Digital Human - 4 views
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Interesting BBC radio series from Aleks Krotoski covering topics such as "What is the biggest threat to privacy: governments, corporate entities or our friends?", "Is control over one's digital life an illusion? And what happens if control is lost?", " if we have all become cyborgs without even knowing it."
University of the People - The world's first tuition-free online university - 1 views
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This one has some courses on social sciences supported by the United Nations. They are complete undergraduate degrees online!
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Thanks Chris - will keep an eye on this, Sandra (NB: because we built a Diigo group for our website, www.londonmet.ac.uk/studyhub, when I post here my moniker comes up as Study Hub.)
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