Leading Blog: A Leadership Blog: 12 Leadership Guidelines for Leading through Learning ... - 0 views
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Understand that we will never get back to normal: While it is comfortable to want to seek the status quo, “normal” in times of a crisis is constantly changing. Leaders need to move on to seek better ways of doing things, letting these new ways become the new normal. Take care of one another: Listening reduces anxiety. Provide regular updates on what is happening across the organization and expand inclusivity. React…pause…respond: The right response will be made once information gathering, integrity, an open heart, and seeking to understand have been considered. Talk—even when you don’t believe there is much to say: Overcommunication is essential during turbulent times. Consistent and continuous messaging prevents rumors from spreading and demonstrates the leaders’ approachability and transparency. Be visible—now is not the time to play hide-and-seek: People become fearful when the leader goes into hiding. As a leader, be present, inform comfort, and provide strength for others. Maintain integrity and high value morals: Current circumstances should not influence or distort your definition of integrity and other core values. Optimize costs, with retention in mind: Make cost optimization decisions keeping employee retention in mind. This allows leaders to assess risk and make more informed decisions. Be a brand ambassador: The organization needs people who are brand ambassadors. As brand ambassadors, you are responsible for representing the organization both internally and externally in a positive manner. This means you must refrain from making statements that might cause further turbulence. Assess and rebuild trust: Rebuilding an injured organization requires making difficult decisions that not everyone will understand. For this reason, you and other leaders must continuously asses and rebuild trust. Remember, leaders are human, too: Though there will be difficult times during a crisis, as leader, it is important to remain composed. Think like a child: Try to live “in the moment,” not allowing business to consume every moment. Work/life balance can exist, even in a crisis. Take care of your emotional, physical, and spiritual well-being: Don’t put any aspect of your well-being on hold. While change and uncertainty at work are draining, you cannot allow them to take over your life.
Does Class Size Matter? - Distance Education Report Article - 1 views
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Does class size matter? http://www.magnapubs.com/newsletter/distance-education-report/270/Does-Class-Size-Matter-13523-1.html This article originally appeared in Distance Education Report. I've been the director of online education at my institution since 2007. One question I've been asked many times over the years is "What is the optimal number of students to have in an online class?" My usual response is to pretend I didn't hear the question and walk away as quickly as possible. Well, that's not totally true. But as you can imagine, this is not an easy question to answer, as there are many variables that come into play--the topic of the class, the overall course design, the academic rank of students in the class, the experience of the instructor teaching the class, etc. I've had many interesting discussions with students, staff and administrators over the years about enrollments in online courses. When I first started teaching online, my courses would fill almost immediately, sometimes within minutes. Inevitably, students would contact me and request an override for the course - not just one or two students, but dozens upon dozens of students. They were usually surprised when I said no. These frustrated students would often reply with a comment such as, "But it's an online class, so you can take unlimited numbers of students and it won't be any additional work for you." Surprisingly, I've heard this kind of comment from some faculty, staff and administrators as well. I usually view these interactions as opportunities to offer a bit of education about online learning. So I might say, for example, that if I had seven graded assignments in my online course, and 25 students, I would end up grading 175 assignments--with the emphasis on "I." However, if I doubled the number of students in my class and graded seven assignments for 50 students, that would be 350 assignments to grade. There were also 22 quizzes, two exams and multiple
Bob Sutton: Leading Innovation: 21 Things that Great Bosses Believe and Do - 0 views
Survey Software and Web Survey - Online Surveys from Vovici - 0 views
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complete solution for creating and distributing surveys and collecting, analyzing and reporting results. Common survey applications include customer and employee satisfaction surveys, course evaluations and opinion polls. Other common applications include lead-generation forms, technical-support inquiry forms, web-feedback questionnaires and product-order forms. SurveySolutions also includes the ability to produce instant "live" survey results, making it ideal for publishing entertaining and informative polls on your web site.
Study suggests instructional spending leads to better student employment outcomes | Ins... - 2 views
Why Americans Are the Weirdest People in the World - 0 views
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In the end they titled their paper “The Weirdest People in the World?” (pdf) By “weird” they meant both unusual and Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic. It is not just our Western habits and cultural preferences that are different from the rest of the world, it appears. The very way we think about ourselves and others—and even the way we perceive reality—makes us distinct from other humans on the planet, not to mention from the vast majority of our ancestors. Among Westerners, the data showed that Americans were often the most unusual, leading the researchers to conclude that “American participants are exceptional even within the unusual population of Westerners—outliers among outliers.”
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the “weird” Western mind is the most self-aggrandizing and egotistical on the planet: we are more likely to promote ourselves as individuals versus advancing as a group. WEIRD minds are also more analytic, possessing the tendency to telescope in on an object of interest rather than understanding that object in the context of what is around it. The WEIRD mind also appears to be unique in terms of how it comes to understand and interact with the natural world. Studies show that Western urban children grow up so closed off in man-made environments that their brains never form a deep or complex connection to the natural world.
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metaphysical questions: Is my thinking so strange that I have little hope of understanding people from other cultures? Can I mold my own psyche or the psyches of my children to be less WEIRD and more able to think like the rest of the world? If I did, would I be happier?
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The Flipped Class Revealed - THE DAILY RIFF - Be Smarter. About Education. - 0 views
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Discussions are led by the students where outside content is brought in and expanded. These discussions typically reach higher orders of critical thinking.Collaborative work is fluid with students shifting between various simultaneous discussions depending on their needs and interests.Content is given context as it relates to real-world scenarios.Students challenge one another during class on content.Student-led tutoring and collaborative learning forms spontaneously. Students take ownership of the material and use their knowledge to lead one another without prompting from the teacher.Students ask exploratory questions and have the freedom to delve beyond core curriculum.Students are actively engaged in problem solving and critical thinking that reaches beyond the traditional scope of the course.Students are transforming from passive listeners to active learners.
Using Peer Teams to Lead Online Discussions - 0 views
A "Learn To Code" Startup For Instagram-Loving Teenage Girls | Fast Company | Business ... - 1 views
The Digital Citizen - My Sojourn in the World of Web 2.0 by Irene Watts-Politza - 0 views
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Aug 04 2012
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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.
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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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Student Reflections @wattspoi on "Heutagogy & its Implications for Evaluative Feedback" http://t.co/xiuWsCsD #lrnchat #edchat
Episode 25: But FIRRST…. Lead Innovation! | Center for Distributed Learning - 0 views
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RT @topcastnow: TOPcast ep 25 includes shoutouts to @alexpickett @NMCorg @OLCToday @wcet_info @SpitfireCoffee @passionhousecr https://t.co…
Using a Proposed Library Guide Assessment Standards Rubric and a Peer Review Process to... - 0 views
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SUNY’s Online Course Quality Review Rubric or OSCQR a
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OSCQR is an openly licensed online course review rubric that allows use and/or adaptation (OSCQR-SUNY, n. d.). SUNYY-OSCQR’s rubric is a tool that can be used as a professional development exercise when building and/or refreshing online courses (OSCQR-SUNY, n.d.).
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The SUNY Online Course Quality Review Rubric OSCQR to re-mix as the Library Guide Assessment Standards Rubric with annotations.
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