SCoPE

"Video is not being used enough in online learning in post-secondary education. When used it is often an afterthought or an 'extra', rather than an integral part of the design, or is used merely to replicate a classroom lecture, rather than exploiting the unique characteristics of video."

PresentationTube integrates a variety of presentation aids and synchronizes presenter's audio and video, PowerPoint slides, whiteboard, drawing board, and Web content.

Salman Khan talks about how and why he created the remarkable Khan Academy, a carefully structured series of educational videos offering complete curricula in math and, now, other subjects. He shows the power of interactive exercises, and calls for teachers to consider flipping the traditional classroom script -- give students video lectures to watch at home, and do "homework" in the classroom with the teacher available to help.

SCoPE seminar: As video gets easier to record and publish, it's valuable to step back and ask ourselves a few questions: Why use video? What purpose does it serve, and what problems does it solve in the online classroom? How much video is enough? How long should clips be, and how many is too many? What accompanies video? What do we add or create to increase viewer engagement? When is security important? How do we balance accessibility and privacy? What questions do we ask of ourselves and our colleagues when choosing what to film, how to edit it, how to frame it and how to share it? Bring your questions, your ideas, and what you've read to the discussion. We won't find any definitive answers, but certainly some new scenarios and resources, and new questions to jump start discussions in our respective workplaces.

A cartoon about the politics of teacher evaluations

"Educators should choose instructional strategies that are most effective for accomplishing a particular educational objective. From this perspective, instructional strategies are tools available to educators for designing and facilitate learning ."

An excellent book, blog, collection of resources on planning and facilitating live online events

Source of symbols

EdTechWeekly #186 March 6, 2011 Hosts: Dave, John, and Jen Topics: Learning Analytics, OER University, Using OER Texts

"a continuum of collaboration"

Presentation by Brent Lee - BC Educational Technology Users Group Spring Workshop June 2010

Collecting resources for the SCoPE Educational Uses of iPads seminar that runs October 18-29, 2010

"Here are a few tools you may want to consider, some of their notable features and the cost for using them" (¶2, 2010.11.24).

"Motivation and Adult Learning Online: Dec 1-17, 2010 Facilitator: Firat Sarsar What motivates adult learners in online learning environments? What are the barriers? How do we measure motivation? Motivation is both complex and multidimensional and there is a lot to explore during this seminar. We will look at the sources of motivation and what we, as educators, can do to support adults in meeting their learning goals."

PDF - recommended reading for the SCoPE seminar on Culturally Diverse Learners http://scope.bccampus.ca/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=13711

Revisiting the Community of Inquiry Framework: July 9-22, 2012 Facilitators:  Cindy Xin and  Sarah Haavind Since its original publication, Garrison, Anderson and Archer's (2000) "Critical Inquiry in A Text-based Environment: Computer Conferencing in Higher Education" has inspired a great many researchers and advanced our understanding of online learning and online education. In recent years, a number of reviews of the Community of Inquiry framework (CoI) have been published, including, Garrison and Arbaugh's (2007), Swan and Ice (2010). Cindy Xin, author of a recently-published critique (Xin, 2012) will be with us to explain her argument and, together with Sarah Haavind, facilitate a discussion reconsidering the CoI and its recent reviews and critiques. By provoking new thoughts and possibly constructing new theories and methods, we hope to further our understanding of online discussion in particular, and online education in general.

"Shared Thinking is a 'group-oriented generative learning environment.' It uses technology to create a space in which the diversity of views can be generated and then shared as a re-usable resource for learning and research."

Qualitative analysis of the attitudinal surveys following the activity provided data regarding students' preference for the Physical Webbing activity over the traditional lecture, acceptance of participatory manipulatives, perceived learning and attitudes towards collaborative kinesthetic three-dimensional Mind Mapping.

Evaluation of Type With Me "This is an online rich text editor that allows people to share their writing and upload files. It differs from Google docs in that realtime collaborative editing can occur between teams. Authors can choose to have their writing in different colours."

This Flexible Learning Guidebook was posted by Bronwyn Hegarty to the seminar on Culturally Diverse Learners http://scope.bccampus.ca/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=13541#p55751

Scheduled seminar facilitated by Emma Duke-Williams