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Christopher Pappas

6 Myths of Online Colleges Infographic | e-Learning Infographics - 0 views

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    6 Myths of Online Colleges Infographic From 2002 to 2008, the percentage of students taking distance learning courses, which include online courses increased form 8 to 20% 6.7 million (32%) of the approximately 21 million college students in the U.S. were taking one online course. Myth 1: Online course credits are not accepted or respected by employees. Myth 2: Good professors don't want to teach online. Myth 3: Online classes are easier than in-person courses. Myth 4: Respected schools don't offer online courses. Myth 5: Online students aren't smart enough for traditional colleges. Myth 6: Online courses are for anti-social people. Do you agree or disagree? http://elearninginfographics.com/6-myths-of-online-colleges-infographic/ #distance #online #learning #education #college #professor #student
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Online hiring challenges | Ways to tackle jobs | Pinhopes - 0 views

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Christopher Pappas

Free Testing and Quizzing Tools for Online Education - 0 views

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    Would you be interested in for list of 15 Free Testing and Quizzing Tools that you can use in your Online Classroom? At the following list of Free Testing Quizzing Tools for Online Education you will find 15 Free Online Tools that you can use for Testing and Quizzing at your traditional or online classroom! I have used the most of them but I am not going to tell you which is my favorite! You have to try them your self and share with me your thoughts! We do not have all the same educational needs! If you know a Free Testing and Quizzing Tool that is not included in the list please share it with me!
Joh Fra03

Interaction in Learner-Paced Learning - CIDER - 0 views

  • 63.6% for the 2002-2003 period. Completion rates for the same courses offered in seminar format (either through synchronous technologies or face-to-face) averaged 86.9% over the same period (Athabasca University, 2003, p.12).
  • Nor do we know how to create and structure collaborative activities within independent study courses so that desirable characteristics of both collaboration and learner pacing can be retained. Further, we know little about demographics, learning styles, attitudes, or lifestyles of students who are more likely to appreciate and participate in collaborative activities at a distance.
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  • We also posted invitations on 17 applicable listservs for non-AU faculty to participate in telephone interviews about the topic.
  • Twenty-nine respondents were interviewed by telephone, two sent their replies via email, and one participated through an online audio conference with the help of a translator. 
  • students who are most motivated are also more likely to participate in collaborative activities and finish the course in quicker times. 
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      students most motivated more participation
  • effective, collaborative and interactive activities must be designed and integrated
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      collaborative and interactive activities added to the class
  • efforts must be expended by institutional staff to promote, monitor, coordinate, and assess these activities
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      instructor interaction is needed
  • Requiring participation only makes sense if the learning outcomes that result are sufficient to justify the reduction in learner control and flexibility that accompanies such prescribed activities
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      interaction must be justified in order for the learner to loose control
  • cooperative learning, which is somewhere in between, in the spectrum of learning, individual and collaborative learning. Cooperative learning, in my opinion, is to work with others, but you are not really dependent upon their input to complete your assignment or to progress in your studies. You cooperate with other students when they are there, and they can have some input into what you are learning, but you are not really dependent upon them.
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      cooperative learning, not dependent upon other students in order to complete the assignment
  • I could do that in three ways: as individual, cooperative or collaborative learning
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      implementation
  • I would write the task in slightly different ways. In individual learning, I would say, ‘Write down your thoughts on this and submit it to your teacher as an email.’ If I wrote it as a cooperative assignment, I would say something like this, ‘Discuss this with a colleague or a peer student. Using this discussion as a background, you should submit your assignment as an email to your teacher.’ If I should write it as the third alternative, collaborative learning, I would say something like this, ‘Contact a peer student and write the assignment together, and submit it as something you have written together to your teacher in an email.’
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      differing forms of implementation
  • The respondent suggested that interaction need not be student-to-student within a particular course to be beneficial, but could consist of employee-employee or employee-employer interaction. Another respondent noted that a community necessary for lifelong learning has to exist outside of a single structure, stating: “Why should people want to be part of a community? I am not sure that course-based learning, unpaced or paced, is compelling enough to engage the learner in that context because the course is not the thing they are there for - the community is bigger than that. It is something that has drawn them into this
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      student choise in community and collaboration
  • noting that is unlikely that sufficient numbers of students will be registered in low-enrollment courses and be at approximately the same place to make collaborative activities possible. One respondent argued that this activity therefore should be used only in large-enrolment courses, commenting: “A learning community is feasible with undergrad
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      low enrollment andon participati
  • Students may choose to participate in online group activities instead of completing individual, written assignments. If they choose online activity, their participation is marked. Besides engaging in asynchronous discussions, these students are required to evaluate and critique a submission from one peer. Students can self-register in the discussions.
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      choice of particiption in group activities
  •  About 40% of students choose the online discussion option in the current version of the course, compared to about 5% in the prior version, when facilitators were not used.
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      more participation when moderator / instructor
  • The respondents in general were experienced online and distance learners. The average number of online courses completed by each student was 2.1 with a range from 0 to 19. The number of courses that were based on self-study (that included older print-based correspondence model courses) was only slightly lower (m=1.9 range from 0-29).
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      variable how seasoned as online distance learners , or online courses in general
  • 24% reported working with friends, family, or co-workers. The majority of student respondents (71%) chose not to participate in the interactive components of their courses, which consisted mostly of online discussion groups. Of the respondents who did participate in asynchronous conferences, 24% read or posted responses daily, 53% participated once or twice per week; and the rest only a few times during the course. Most respondents (79%) contributed 4-5 postings in each course.
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      results
  • Eighteen percent felt that participation would take too much time. A further 17% were not aware that discussion forums were available, 14% thought that participation would not significantly increase their learning, and 10% indicated that they felt they had nothing to contribute. About 10% of respondents cited a lack of recent posti
  • 78% of respondents either agreed or strongly agreed that they would interact with other students as long as they were able to proceed through the course at their own pace. When queried how they would like to interact, 70% preferred asynchronous media like email and computer conferencing, 27% preferred a combination of synchronous and asynchronous technologies, and only 3% preferred synchronous interaction alone (for example, audio conferences or face-to-face interaction).
  • 95% of student respondents reported a desire to access the work of students either currently or previously enrolled in the courses. About 77% of respondents indicated an interest in accessing animated student-content interaction devices such as a “ChatBot.” Only 25% of students felt that participation should be graded.
  • 49% indicated they would not; 29% indicated they would; and 22% were unsure. When queried for the reasons that they did not wish to engage in collaborative activities, 58% said they preferred to learn on their own. About 25% indicated that they have a strong support group at work or at home, and 17% provided a variety of other reasons.
  • student survey results indicate that peer collaboration in general, at least in the form of asynchronous discussion groups, is not perceived as an important part of the learning experience within Athabasca University undergraduate individualized study courses
  • significantly increase faculty and administrative costs to the institution
  • The ability of students in each course to “see” when other students are online, and engage each other in online chats
  • student assessment incentives
  • communicate with other students in their courses at learner-determined times, and with a degree of social presence that meets their individual needs
  • designed to allow students to work with other students enrolled in the course as well as other non-registered members within and outside of the learning community. Where required, systems should be designed to permit spontaneous formation of groups of 4-5 students at a particular point in a course to perform a specified group task, after which the group would dissolve. 
  • Students can locate learning partners and participate in a variety of informal discussion groups. Some of these may be directly related to course content, others to more general socializing, informal learning, employment and family concerns
  • “Study Buddy”
  • Anderson, T. (2003a). Getting the mix right again: An updated and theoretical rationale for interaction. International Review of Research on Open and Distance Learning 4 (2). Retrieved September 2004 from: http://www.irrodl.org/content/v4.2/anderson.html
  • Hislop, G. (2000.) Working professionals as part-time online learners. Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks 4 (2). Retrieved April 2003 from: http://www.aln.org/publications/jaln/v4n2/pdf/v4n2_hislop.pdf
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    Good research on self-paced constructivism courses. Primary research
Christopher Pappas

5 Time-Saving Tips for Online Instruction - 0 views

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    Do you check your email before breakfast? Ever feel like your online class is taking over your life? Online instruction does operate at its own schedule, but the schedule should not control you. Here are some time saving tips for the online teaching environment. Here are 5 tips to manage your time during online instruction
Joh Fra03

OnLine Education Notebook - 0 views

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    a compilation of online resources such as online schools programs etc.
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Video Interview - The Next Step in Online Recruitment Process | Pinhopes - 0 views

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    Video interviews are becoming immensely popular in today's workplace. Today, companies are increasingly catering to global clients with diverse resource requirements, therefore hiring via video interview online, is the need of the hour
Joh Fra03

Kapp Notes: Teens, Tweens and Social Networking - 0 views

  • Online social networking is now so deeply embedded in the lifestyles of tweens and teens that it rivals television for their attention...Nine- to 17-year-olds report spending almost as much time using social networking services and Web sites as they spend watching television. Among teens, that amounts to about 9 hours a week on social networking activities,compared to about 10 hours a week watching TV.
  • any students engage in highly creative activities on social networking sites...Overall, an astonishing 96 percent of students with online access report that they have ever used any social networking technologies, such as chatting, text messaging, blogging and visiting online communities
  • Eighty-one percent say they have visited a social networking Web site within the past three months and 71 percent say they use social networking tools at least weekly.
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  • Students report that one of the most common topics of conversation on the social networking scene is education. Almost 60 percent of students who use social networking talk about education topics online and, surprisingly, more than 50 percent talk specifically about schoolwork.
Kerry Watson

LLB distance learning - an ideal course for those interested in making a career as lawy... - 0 views

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    A multi - billion dollar industry, practicing law requires patience, skill and above all the educational qualifications. Without proper educational qualification one cannot practice law. And if you are thinking of an online law degree, LLB (Hons) Law from Anglia Ruskin University is really worth the penny.
Joshua Sherk

Studywiz Spark » Virtual Tour - 0 views

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    A must for educators who want to teach online
Joh Fra03

Online discussions: Improving the quality of the student experience - CiteSeerX - 0 views

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    Article on how to improve online discussions. Links also to a database of various articles on online education
Joh Fra03

Using Online Collaborative Document Editors to Enhance Student Satisfaction and Cogniti... - 0 views

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    Using Online Collaborative Document Editors to Enhance Student Satisfaction and Cognitive Presence Outcomes
Joh Fra03

Innovate: Future Learning Landscapes: Transforming Pedagogy through Social Software - 0 views

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    Future Learning Landscapes: Transforming Pedagogy through Social Software by: Catherine Mcloughlin, Mark JW Lee Innovate Journal of Online Education, Vol. 4, No. 5. (2008)
Joh Fra03

Courses ‎(Peer 2 Peer University‎) - 0 views

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    example of an open online university
Joh Fra03

The Influence of Learner Control in Instructional Animation - 0 views

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    Study on the self-paced online course and constructivist elements. Discusses outcomes
Linda C

Reel Education: 50 Free Open Courses for Movie Lovers - 0 views

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    "Whether you're an aspiring filmmaker, or just a major fan, you'll be pleased to find out that there are a number of open courses available to movie lovers. These courses are offered by top universities, and cover topics including film culture, visual arts, and video production. Read on to learn more about them, and get access to the courses."
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