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this page shows the advantages and disadvantages of eLearning!

You've got to be cautious about sites like this. When you see a page full of ads and links, it's likely not a very reliable resource. You'll notice they don't provide information about who runs the site. If you click on their blog link, they haven't posted since 2008. This is probably a site making money off pay-per-click ads. There are lots of sites like this, as well as aggregator/collector sites. Those sites actually harvest content from legitimate sites, and put it all together on their site, where they make money off ads.

There is a website that shows about the eLearning network in Washington state! :)

The trend for businesses to go online with learning seems to have really taken hold. I know University of Washington also uses an on-line training system, both for optional and mandatory training.

Interesting. I don't remember ever seeing that before. I'll have to check it out some more.

I found this website while I was searching for some information about eLearning. I think this website will help many kids who study online! :)

This looks like lots of fun. I'll have to share it with my kids. They love online learning games.

This is related to some of our inquiry last week about open courses. ELI is an important conference. I hope you get a chance to check out some of the free sessions online. "Educating in the Open: Philosophies, Innovations, and Stories February 14-16, 2011 * Washington, D.C. or Online Free Conference Streaming SessionsJoin us for the ELI 2011 Annual Meeting "Educating in the Open: Philosophies, Innovations, and Stories," where we as a community will explore the theme of openness in Washington, D.C., February 14-16. If you can't attend in person, participate online. We'll explore the many meanings of "openness": open textbooks, open curriculum, open research, and open resources, as well as openness to new ideas. Today's technologies have transformed the way we interact and engage with the world around us. New devices, services, and effective practices have increased access to information while new policies and philosophies that explore openness have accelerated that change. The growth of social networks and virtual communities has transformed the learning environment into an interactive place to share and build content and community using collaborative systems. * What are the opportunities and the challenges associated with educating in the open? * How might our learners benefit from becoming producers and consumers in this environment? * How can we, as a community of teaching and learning professionals, collaborate more openly? * What evidence do we have that the trend toward openness is having the impact we hope for? Through a highly interactive and engaging program, we'll also examine the value of cross-campus collaboration in the creation of new learning environments and explore strategies to develop campus environments built on engagement, collaboration, authenticity, and co-creation."

Authentic learning is a solid pedagogy approach, no matter the environment. However, two concepts of authentic learning that I feel can be particularly expanded on with the internet and etools are "hooks" and "experts". "Hooks" is what picques and keeps the student's interest and motivation in the activity. With the use of video, games, tools, etc., there are many more ways to do this. "Experts" is being able to bring in subject resources, which on the internet, makes accessibility easy. For my course framework activity, therefore, I expanded on the colon treatment options module. For a hook, I searched YouTube for "colon cancer comedy" videos. There were quite a few actually. I added as a introduction to the module one of these videos - two singing colon surgeons - on colon surgery. For experts, I added references to the National Institute of Health and American Cancer Society on treatment options and survival statistics. I also am having the students connect directly to true cancer experts - patients, caregivers, and survivors. This puts a "face" on the disease, as well as an experience to what it means to have colon cancer. The course framework activity: (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HZKsjzymKk1Bn2gXDt1LOp5gqEsUvOqXE4m-72b8WYw/edit?hl=en#) In my online work experience as a math tutor, hooks are particularly important, as these students would not be in the program if they weren't already performing at a lower math level. Math is not a subject they enjoy. The automated lessons they take, often have "game" quizzes they take and can get immediate feedback on their answers. As an instructor, I try to utilize their life experiences. For example, I might ask them how old they are and then tell them how old I am. I then use these facts to construct subtraction and/or division questions.

I'm not a big fan of the awards, but this is a good place to start looking at education blogs by category.  Check out the nominees, as well as the winners for the categories that interest you.  Voting can become a popularity contest, so  I wouldn't suggest the winners are necessarily the best.

This is an interesting article giving the NSTA's position on the use of online education for science teachers. Oops! The title is actually: The Role of E-Learning in Science.

Its good to standards evolving. It implies a legitmacy to elearning.

This is a simple Survey Monkey feedback form I created for my Galapagos Course Framework. It is designed to be inserted into Module 1 of the Course as one way of meeting Boettcher's BP 6--Ask for informal feedback early in the course. This is also my Portfolio9 activity.

I like your informal feedback early in the course! I am also thinking of making survey for the students if they have any trouble while taking the course. Your work helped me to think about my informal feedback survey! :)

Thanks for using a new survey tool and sharing it with the class. I haven't used survey monkey in a while, but it's probably the survey tool I see used most often at work.

Here it is--at last!! This is my Final Course Framework tour with 8 of Boettcher's Best Practices featured. I'm really pleased with the way it turned out considering that 100% of the knowledge required to create it was new to me at the beginning of this quarter!!

I loved it! When you can get animals to participate in the learning process...that is amazing ( I loved those pics!).

What a great project for grade school students to learn and understand these principles and also learn about the Galapagos. I visited the islands in 2009 and still am in awe.

This post is found in my blog under the title noted above. It is my Portfolio10 activity. As a side note, thank you ALL for your " presence" to me as fellow students. We had a wonderful journey together, I learned from all of you, and am now looking forward to our next class together!