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Hello everybody. I'd like to get your feedback on the course to improve it for the second half of the course. Please fill in the attached form and provide your comments and insights on the course.

Sercan, thanks for noticing this. I think I fixed the problem now. Can you check again?

yeah, it works fine now.

Hello Everybody. I invited Matti Pirttimaa to our group. He is a university teacher at the University of Turku, Finland and he is very interested in our coursework. Please welcome Matti to our Diigo group. 

In our University we use Moodle2. Last autumn we started to use Moodle2, it is a little more advanced version, but don't have possibilities for social media. I think also that as a disadvantage. Evrim, I would to ask you, which is the main subject of the students in this group? Are they subject teacher students? How about this your course and your role here, is that an independent course just for learning technology in education? Or are you studying some other subject, but you use this group and social media tools for learning the subject content? Whatever, I think these things are very usefull for the students despite of the disciplines.

Matti, this is "Research and Practice on Technology in Teacher Education" graduate course. Students are from the masters and PhD programs such as computer education, science education, curriculum and instruction, math education, and physical education. Throughout the semester, we will be investigating recent practices on how technology is integrated into teacher education programs as well as the TPACK framework. We are using these tools to extend our class interaction beyond what happens in a limited 3 hour face to face meetings. Besides, students are using this further after the class ends.

AtademiX, MOOC platform maintained by Distance Education Center at Atatürk University, offers several courses to anybody. I plan to enroll in "Kişilik tiplerine göre öğrencilerle iletişim kurma becerileri" course. I think this course will be helpful to all teachers in any grade level.

MIT Open Courseware for Brain and Cognitive Sciences course , Cognitive Processes like attention, working memory, judgement, problem solving etc.

An infographic about Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs).

To me, the most interesting thing in this infographic is that distance learning is not recent at all, and it actually dates as back as 1700s through correspondence. As you walk through the history of online learning on the left column, the right column will inform you about some other fun facts that happened at the very same year.

Dear friends, I liked this infographic because it is followable to see the development of online learning, year by year

I think a striking point in this infographic seems to be that the developments in the last decade seems to be quicker and more extensive than ever. There are only 12-year distance (2002-2014) between when OpenCourseWare started and 98 % of the universities started online programs. It is also seen that online courses are regarded as highly as face-to-face courses for most people of business and academy which might put the existence of today's pyhsical schools into risk. When we consider that online courses and learning tools are not that common in Turkey, it seems we are left behind that new distant learning paradigm in the world.

"MOOC and online courses are changing the face of higher education. Here are some details on how some colleges are adapting." This infographic shows that MOOCs will not replace traditional, residential classes at least in the near future contrary to popular belief among some MOOC fans. The biggest reason behind MOOCs complementary role in education could be their unidirectional nature which makes it difficult for students to receive personalized/differentiated instruction, in-depth feedback, and other mediums for deep learning. Nevertheless, they offer great resources for those highly motivated, self-directed/regulated learners. Another interesting issue in the infographic is that the U.S. colleges, at least almost 60% of them, are willing to integrate online component into their regular college education; I really wonder what statistics our Turkish universities would provide. :)

"I really wonder what statistics our Turkish universities would provide." This is a good research question Yasin and I would really like to learn the answer. :) Bets anyone? :)

A new way to debate! They may find more evidence about their claim of course if this is not considered as cheating. :)

Murat, this is interesting. I plan to conduct similar experiment in my class using Twitter for debating. There are some examples out there!

This might help to those who plan to prepare qualitative doctoral dissertation proposal. 

Since we have enrolled this course, most of us will probably respond the question positively. However when we read and join the discussion, we should think about the question once again... and decide how to use technology to worth the cost. 

This is a commercial Online schooling site. it  provides a set of courses in different disciplines ranging from Art, History, Language Arts/English, Math ,Science, Music, and Social Sciences.

In this infographic, six strategies to develop mobile learning courses is given. In the chapter "mobile Learning" Sharples and et. all (2009) gives these strategies as designing mobile learning and evaluating mobile learning.

Take free online classes from 115+ top universities and educational organizations. We partner with schools like Stanford, Yale, Princeton, and others to offer courses in dozens of topics, from computer science to teaching and beyond. Whether you are pursuing a passion or looking to advance your career, Coursera provides open, free education for everyone.

Like many other arenas, to be a pioneer institution for OpenCourseWare Project, as METU members, we need to increase the number of high quality courses published and reach more learners as possible. In this process, METU Instructional Technology Support Office supports faculty members for developing course materials and publishing those materials on the Web.

When Southern New Hampshire University President Paul LeBlanc stepped onto the stage at Campus Tech 2015 in July, he painted a bright picture of competency-based higher ed. "Today, 500 institutions are moving to competency-based education, and they are not-for-profit," he said. "There's a lot of opportunity." LeBlanc certainly had that right.

Washington state community college students seeking an associate degree will soon be able to opt for a competency-based online business transfer degree that uses open educational resources (OER) in all courses. The courses are under creation in partnership with Lumen Learning.

More on this Many North Carolina students had class for only two days in the last two weeks because of the icy weather. But that doesn't mean some of them haven't been learning, or that teachers have stopped teaching. On Friday morning at Millbrook High School in Wake County, Mark Grow carefully sidestepped an icy pathway where someone was shoveling. There is no snow holiday!