Joan Erickson's List: etap687 module 1 readings and findings

• This immediate access has had an impact in campus students’ retention and  learning achievement
• Virginia Tech

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• online education provides easy access to peers
• Online education blurs the line between distance education and traditional,  place-based education
• extend the classroom discussions, to allow for student insights on a new topic,  to enhance a lecture, or to discuss readings
• distance education turned out to be more and more noticeable as a part of the  higher education family because of the uses it makes of educational technologies  and new pedagogical strategies that improve the process of teaching and learning
• affect the people (teacher and learner), the processes (teaching and learning),  and the organizations
• be willing to give up control in order to empower the learners to exploration;  create opportunities for collaboration that go beyond the classroom boundaries  in time and space; develop some familiarity with the technology in use; and be  open to learn from others, including colleagues or students
• A successful implementation of online  learning in the classroom requires training in technology and pedagogy; the  development of a good support system, both academic and technical; and the  availability of hardware and software

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• He cannot post the official notes that day so those who subscribe to his  teacher’s math blog via an RSS feed can read what’s going on in his class. His  assignments do not automatically turn into communities of discussion where  students help each other at any time of the day. His school has successfully  blocked the cool containers Dan uses at home from “contaminating” any rigorous  academic content. It is an irony that in too many schools, educators label these  effective learning tools as hindrances to teaching

• If we could get past our fear of the unknown and embrace the very tools we  are blocking (which are also essential tools for the global economy) then we  could build much more motivating and rigorous learning environments. We also  have an opportunity to teach the ethics and the social responsibility that  accompany the use of such powerful tools. For example, many students do not  realize that once something is on the Internet it has the potential to follow  them for the rest of their lives.
• The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman

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• 62%           Female

• 39.30                          Conflicts with personal schedule
•   43.45       Full-time
• 53.40       Full-

• 48.61        Campus/Professor/fellow student

• 14.09        Friend/Relative

• 0.9289384                43,570      New  York

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• severe drop rates and attrition in online classes
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• Online students are generally older
• GPA
• successful online students exhibited a higher average GPA prior to enrollment in  the online course (avg. GPA = 3.02) than unsuccessful students (avg. GPA =  2.25).
• Learning styles
• then teachers should consider altering their instructional methods as one means  of preventing drops
• Successful students' independent styles of learning were significantly,  negatively related (p < .01) to their collaborative and dependent learning  styles. That is, their preference for independence was not tied to needs for  external structure and guidance from their teacher or a need to collaborate with  their classmates.

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