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Illinois Online Network: Instructional Resources : Pointers and Clickers : Facilitating Every Student in an Online Course
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Students need time management
skills, discipline and motivation, a sense of community ("people" skills),
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- Time Management Skills
- Discipline and Motivation
- Synergy and the Online Learning Community
- Communication Skills
- Technophobia
- Access
Collaborative Platform for Learning & Innovation
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Arguably, the term "community" has become an ambiguous buzzword
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community can be a vehicle for connecting people to other people's stories, experiences, and mentoring, which results in accelerated learning and the sharing of "tacit" knowledge** within an organization.
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JOLT - Journal of Online Learning and Teaching
MERLOT is a free and open resource designed primarily for faculty and students of higher education. The MERLOT Journal of Online Learning and Teaching (JOLT) is a peer-reviewed, open access, online publication addressing the scholarly use of multimedia resources in online education. JOLT is published quarterly in March, June, September, and December. The objectives of JOLT are to:
* Enable faculty to use technology effectively in online teaching and learning by learning from a community of researchers and scholars;
* Enable academic programs to design and deploy academic technology to optimize online teaching and learning;
* Build a community around the research and scholarly use of multimedia educational resources for online teaching and learning.
EdTech Leaders Online: Professional Development: Online Course Design and Delivery
The Online Course Design and Delivery program is designed for K-12 school districts, state departments of education, regional educational service providers, colleges and universities, and other organizations that provide professional development for teachers and administrators.
This program enables your organization to train online course designers who can develop online courses to meet your needs and integrate these courses into your ongoing professional development programs.
Educational Leadership:How Teachers Learn:Learning with Blogs and Wikis
Technology has made it easy for educators to embrace continual professional development.
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there are few portals through which new knowledge about teaching and learning can enter schools; few structures or processes in which teachers and administrators can assimilate, adapt, and polish new ideas and practices; and few sources of assistance for those who are struggling to understand the connection between the academic performance of their students and the practices in which they engage.
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Teachers rarely get to self-select learning opportunities, pursue professional passions, or engage in meaningful, ongoing conversations about instruction.
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K12 Education: Gary Stager on High-quality Online Education
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Most online programs are based on constraints, such as: too few student to justify advanced courses; geographic distance; teacher shortages; mandates squeezing electives out of the school schedule or budget cuts. In such cases, online classes respond to a crisis and are the Internet equivalent of the correspondence course.
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Why is it that we think about practice when discussing traditional classes and content when we imagine online learning?
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Free Online MIT Course Materials for High School | MIT OpenCourseWare
Highlights for High School features MIT OpenCourseWare materials that are most useful for high school students and teachers
Popular Quizzes, Polls, Surveys & Fun Tests Online - Quibblo
Create and take free quizzes, polls, surveys & personality quizzes with Quibblo. Easily create and post quizzes to your own blog, MySpace or Facebook page.
LimeSurvey.org - The Leading Open Source Tool for Online Surveys - Features
LimeSurvey (formerly PHPSurveyor) is an Open Source PHP web application to develop, publish and collect responses to online & offline surveys.
ENCYCLOPÆDIA BRITANNICA: School and Library Site
The following resources have been created to help new users become familiar with the features and functionality available within the Britannica Online products. These pages can be printed for distribution to your class, or for display in computer labs, li
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