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Dianne Krause

Communication in Online Courses: Strategies for Providing Feedback - 0 views

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    "Students need much more support and feedback in the online environment than in a traditional course. This is because the potential threat that students feel alienated is quite high in the Virtual Classroom. Using effective feedback strategies will enable the instructor to identify and meet individual student needs as well as encourage students to participate and continue to participate at a high quality level."
Dianne Krause

Tweeting Your Way to Better Grades - US News and World Report - 0 views

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    Sammy Garey, a recent graduate of Burlingame High School in Burlingame, Calif., is a devoted user of Twitter. She's used the website with her classmates for online book discussions for her AP English class, in which they post and share feedback, analysis, and questions about novels such as Crime and Punishment. Garey also turns to the website to check breaking news and feed her interest in science by following the tweets of specialized Twitter accounts such as MedUpdates and DrugInfo.
Dianne Krause

Adult Learning Theory - 1 views

  • Adults will commit to learning when the goals and objectives are considered realistic and important to them
  • professional development needs to give participants some control over the what, who, how, why, when, and where of their learning.
  • professional development learning and their day-to-day activities are related and relevant
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  • direct, concrete experiences in which they apply the learning in real work.
  • provide support from peers and to reduce the fear of judgment during learning.
  • practice the learning and receive structured, helpful feedback.
  • small-group activities during the learning to move them beyond understanding to application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation. Small-group activities provide an opportunity to share, reflect, and generalize their learning experiences.
  • diversity must be accommodated i
  • Coaching and other kinds of follow-up support are needed to help adult learners transfer learning into daily practice so that it is sustained
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    "Speck (1996) notes that the following important points of adult learning theory should be considered when professional development activities are designed for educators: "
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