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The Digital Citizen - My Sojourn in the World of Web 2.0 by Irene Watts-Politza - 0 views

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shared by alexandra m. pickett on 15 Oct 14 - No Cached
  • Aug 04 2012
  • Reflecting on the online course design process, I realize I have made a tremendous transition from first-time student to instructor in the space of one semester. What I have learned about myself is that I have an affinity for designing in the online environment. 
  • I just finished what may be my last discussion post for ETAP640. As I went through the post process, I was cognizant of each step: read your classmates’ posts; respond to something that resonates within you; teach (us) something by locating and sharing resources that support your thinking;  include the thinking and experiences of classmates; offer your opinion on what you are sharing; cite your resources for the benefit of all; tag your resources logically.
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  • I am technology-proficient.
  • blog posts are personalized records of learning, thinking, and being. 
  • students’ learning is demonstrated through the vehicle of discussion.  
  • While I am not yet a full technophile, I am surely no longer a technophobe!
  • discussion is the heart of online learning. 
  •   I so deeply enjoyed the reading and studying portion of this course … it opened a new world of theory to me, made more exciting by the historic proximity of the leading researchers in the field. 
  • It is not about what the instructor wants to hear, it is about hearing the student’s articulation of what is being learned that is essential to evaluating the content of a blog post.
  • (Think Twitter, Irene!) 
  • I have spent my academic life I believing that I have to ‘go it alone’, since I walked home from school alone the first day of first grade.  Strangely, this course, in which I spend so much time alone, is teaching me that I don’t. 
  • Through trying to be “fearless” about using technology, as Alex advises, I have come to learn that confidence is something that one must exercise in all spheres of the online environment.
  • The resulting ah ha moments became the core of my entry …
  • It causes me to reflect on the similarities between online and physical communities, something I had not thought of before.  Could it be that we really are, slowly and steadily, growing into a genuine community?
  • we can not help but to teach when we learn and to learn when we teach.
  • I kept telling myself, “You need the experience if you want to be an instructional designer!”
  • I am a student whose understanding of connectivism and heutagogy is being developed experientially through taking this course.
  • Teaching presence also involves anticipating students’ needs based on monitoring progress and being ready to find that perfect something to support the student’s learning.
  • I realized that the online environment is actually a type of classroom; is that why course language includes such terms as “area”, and “room”?
  • “As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.” This is certainly true of discussion forum.  We learn with and for each other: as  you learn, I learn. 
  • So, reflection has proven its worth yet again:  reflecting on my work in designing EED406 thus far is proof that research-based best practice works.
  • complaints, above, I think about the layout of the course; if it’s too many clicks away or the explanations aren’t clear, students become anxious, lose interest, and possibly
  • alexandra m. pickett on 15 Oct 14
     
    Student Reflections @wattspoi on "Heutagogy & its Implications for Evaluative Feedback" http://t.co/xiuWsCsD #lrnchat #edchat
alexandra m. pickett

Executive summary of Making Digital Learning Work report | EdPlus at Arizona State Univ... - 0 views

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shared by alexandra m. pickett on 12 Apr 18 - No Cached
  • The study found that when colleges and universities take a strategic approach to digital learning and invest in the design and development of high-quality courses and programs, they can achieve three critical objectives: 
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Is technology the best way to stop online cheating? No, experts say: better teaching is. - 0 views

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cheating assessment academicintegrity

shared by alexandra m. pickett on 07 Sep 21 - No Cached
  • The better question than "how can I stop cheating?" is "how can I best facilitate and assess learning?"
  • "Students are more likely to engage in dishonesty when they’re under stress and pressure, when the norms are unclear, and when there are temptations and opportunities," she said.
  • "when students don’t feel connected and a sense of belonging to the learning community, whether it's online or face-to-face, they are more likely to detach from any sense of collective community responsibility or ethics and substitute for that a pure ethic of mercenary self-interest,"
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  • 'What’s the best teaching and learning experience I can construct and deliver for the vast majority of students who are there to learn authentically and who want to succeed?'"
alexandra m. pickett

New approaches to discussion boards aim for dynamic online learning experiences - 2 views

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shared by alexandra m. pickett on 15 Jul 19 - No Cached
  • Constructing a learning experience around collaboration as a means to deeper understanding.
  • initial post by Wednesday,
  • probing questions l
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  • cut in half
  • allows students to respond to discussion prompts with PowerPoint presentations, YouTube videos and concept maps in addition to written text.
  • “Compare your concept map to the rest of the class. What’s missing? What’s different?”
  • fewer
  • more in-depth,”
  • sking open-ended questions
  • goal
  • alking to each other
  • timely feedback
  • start their own threads
  • “advance the discussion.”
  • steering conversations
  • marks down
  • “cluster posting”
  • They’re not my
  • Voicethread
  • "single thread of conversation" that extends through the entire semester.
  • “a little pushback”
  • Discuss
alexandra m. pickett

State of Washington to Offer Online Materials, Instead of Textbooks, for 2-Year College... - 0 views

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textbooks elearning chronicle

shared by alexandra m. pickett on 27 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • If the course designers feel that the best instructional materials are online versions of traditional textbooks, that's fine. Or they can use a smorgasbord of teaching modules and exercises developed by other open-learning projects, such as those created by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Carnegie Mellon University. Interactive-learning Web sites and even instructional videos on YouTube are also perfectly acceptable resources.
  • Traditional textbook publishers, which now promote e-textbooks, aren't the solution, insisted David Lippman, who teaches math at Pierce College and is a self-confessed open-source purist. "I find the publishers' online offerings nothing more than the old ancillaries they've always offered bundled up in a proprietary system," he said.
  • Maybe we collectively need a Sociology 101 textbook (with all of the supplemental materials included). Ohio (or Washington or Texas or Florida) releases an RFP for the creation of a "Sociology 101" textbook. Maybe you win the bid ... maybe Pearson wins the bid. The difference is, the publisher does not own the copyright - the State of Ohio owns the copyright - and chooses to share that textbook with everyone with a CC BY license. Everyone can now use / modify the open textbook, Ohio has saved a bunch of money for its students, so did other states / countries, and the publisher still had an income stream.
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  • What is most important is that we collectively get to high quality, multi-format (digital web, mobile, print-on-demand), accessible, affordable educational instructional materials. Creating and maintaining those materials is expensive, and no one is going to do it for free - nor should they. What I'm suggesting is higher education teaches roughly the same top 100 highest enrolled courses... the same can be said of K-12. As such, there is an historical opportunity to share - using creative commons licensing - the digital courses and textbooks we all need. Yes - we all teach / build courses slightly differently ... and open licensing allows anyone to make changes to fit local needs.
alexandra m. pickett

Instructional Design in Higher Education: Defining an Evolving Field - 1 views

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shared by alexandra m. pickett on 29 Jul 18 - No Cached
  • alexandra m. pickett on 29 Jul 18
     
    Excited to read, Instructional Design in Higher Education: Defining an Evolving Field, a new white paper released by the OLC Research Center for Digital Learning & Leadership https://t.co/eD4uqAcoFy #instructionaldesign #highered #onlineeducation #ins
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