We will use this diigo group to add resources in our course. Each week, you'll be adding at least one resource that you research and include in your weekly discussion exemplar assignment.
This book is a few years old, but I read it last week for the first time. I agree with original NYTimes reviewer, who says the arguments of ths book seems both obvious and novel at the same time....
. How not to make a PowerPoint presentation a boring slide show: http://www.articulate.com/rapid-elearning/powerpoint-for-e-learning/ This was not a highly technical article, however it did chall...
David, This article lets me know how much more there is to learn in providing quality online education. Oh goodness, I may not live long enough to master this challenge after all!
https://www2.uwstout.edu/content/profdev/teachingonline/before.html http://cw.routledge.com/textbooks/9780415997263/pdf/Teaching_Online_Ch_5.pdf These two articles address the significance of th...
I can VPN, although at 5pm St. Thomas time, our internet gets really slow. I will try tomorrow. Thanks for the tip!
This article addresses some of our on line concerns about student readiness, motivation, self-regulation and persistence, all areas of interest as we move forward for on line work. Develops a conce...
Why do a minority of academic leaders in higher education still view online learning as inferior? Babson Survey Research Group, Pearson and Quahog Research Group, LLC (2013).
I have done some work in Second Life and would like to do more. This link, http://nlnjournals.org/doi/full/10.1043/1094-2831%282007%2928%5B156%3ANESL%5D2.0.CO%3B2, provides an interesting discussio...
Johnson's thesis draws on infant psychology to show how we never stop being babies in the way we fundamentally relate to the world through our bodies, which is the generator of all meaning. Meanin...
This article is very important for those envisioning turning a traditional face-to-face class into an online class. It explains how traditionally instructors have understood content, Pedagogical, a...
Abstract: The study examined students' perceptions of social presence in online and face-to-face course environments. Data from surveys of 112 undergraduate students (80 in online, 32 in face-to-fa...
This is an overview of of standards for online teaching in various categories, including Higher Education. https://www.qualitymatters.org/node/2343/download/QMOverviewforwebsite2014.pdf
Cutting-Edge Social Media Approaches to Business Education: Teaching with LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Second Life, and Blogs, Charles Wankel, St. John's University (Editor) (ISBN: P1617351164) Is ...
The book An Administrators Guide to Online Education by K. Shelton and G. Saltsman (Information Age Publishing, ISBN13:978-1593 114244) is endorsed by the US Distance Learning Association. The book...
Sounds interesting, but I don't think your link is working!
This article has some nice organizational tips, some of which I have seen in practice through the Foundations of Online Teaching
http://www.pnas.org/content/107/12/5334.full This essay by Christakis and Fowler (co-authors of the fascinating book Connected: The surprising power of our social networks and how they shape us, ...
This is an extremely helpful chapter. I intend to use it carefully next week while designing a draft syllabus. I tend to leave spaces open in my traditional syllabus for readings that may be added ...
