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23 Oct 09

Online teaching was the perfect part-time job for me. E-learning and online teaching replaced coaching and after school clubs as a way to supplement my income. I loved it! I was working with great teachers from around the world and learning new things everyday. I also realized I was opening a door to a new career. Eventually, after 25 years in a traditional classroom, I decided to take early retirement, and pursue my passion for online teaching and learning full time.

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28 Jul 09

Why a Wiki? « Experiencing E-Learning

Quick video explaining the use of wikis n a design group. Video done with a product called extranormal... Tight info in a 2 minute avatar driven video

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Our team uses a wiki to document our design and development processes, something I wrote about in a short column for the eLearning Guild’s Learning Solutions magazine. This weekend I was imagining a conversation between two people about the benefits of a wiki. This overlaps quite a bit with the reasons in my article, but it’s a more fun presentation with Xtranormal.

27 Jul 09

The eLearning Guild : Guild eBooks: Handbook on Synchronous e-Learning

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The eLearning Guild’s Handbook on Synchronous e-Learning is intended for anyone who wants to produce, lead, or promote live, interactive learning events on the Web.
Access Instructions: Depending on the speed of your internet connection, this document could take a few moments to download because of its size (140 pages in PDF format, ~7mb). We urge you to save it to your computer first and then open it.

Do We Still Know Our Audience? « eLearning Weekly

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02 Jul 09

News: The Evidence on Online Education - Inside Higher Ed

Timely information for our group! The learning time issue in particular is an important finding that points to a cost effective way to increase student learning time without tackling the issue of a longer school day head on. We know that more time on meaningful tasks is crucial, but the physical cost of attending a bricks and mortar classrooms is prohibitive.

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WASHINGTON -- Online learning has definite advantages over face-to-face instruction when it comes to teaching and learning, according to a new meta-analysis released Friday by the U.S. Department of Education.
The study found that students who took all or part of their instruction online performed better, on average, than those taking the same course through face-to-face instruction. Further, those who took "blended" courses -- those that combine elements of online learning and face-to-face instruction -- appeared to do best of all. That finding could be significant as many colleges report that blended instruction is among the fastest-growing types of enrollment.
the positive results appeared consistent (and statistically significant) for all types of higher education, undergraduate and graduate, across a range of disciplines, the study said.
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- On the topic of online learning, there is a steady stream of studies, but many of them focus on limited issues or lack control groups. The Education Department report said that it had identified more than 1,000 empirical studies of online learning that were published from 1996 through July 2008. For its conclusions, however, the Education Department considered only a small number (51) of independent studies that met strict criteria. They had to contrast an online teaching experience to a face-to-face situation, measure student learning outcomes, use a "rigorous research design," and provide adequate information to calculate the differences.
- Using technology to give students "control of their interactions" has a positive effect on student learning, however. "Studies indicate that manipulations that trigger learner activity or learner reflection and self-monitoring of understanding are effective when students pursue online learning as individuals," the report says.
- n noting caveats about the findings, the study returns to the issue of time.
  "Despite what appears to be strong support for online learning applications, the studies in this meta-analysis do not demonstrate that online learning is superior as a medium," the report says. "In many of the studies showing an advantage for online learning, the online and classroom conditions differed in terms of time spent, curriculum and pedagogy. It was the combination of elements in the treatment conditions (which was likely to have included additional learning time and materials as well as additional opportunities for collaboration) that produced the observed learning advantages. At the same time, one should note that online learning is much more conducive to the expansion of learning time than is face-to-face instruction."
- " What the study demonstrates, she said, is that colleges need to think broadly about using online education, and not be "artificially limited" to face-to-face instruction.
- Successful education has always been about engaging students whether it is in an online environment, face to face or in a blended setting. And fundamental to that is having faculty who are fully supported and engaged in that process as well."

News: U.S. Push for Free Online Courses - Inside Higher Ed

Something for all of us interested in e-learning and online teaching to be watching is a proposal to provide Community Colleges with a new hope that will serve students seeking job skills.

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June 29, 2009

WASHINGTON -- Community colleges and high schools would receive federal funds to create free, online courses in a program that is in the final stages of being drafted by the Obama administration.
The funds envisioned for open courses -- $50 million a year -- may be small in comparison to the other ideas being discussed. But in proposing that the federal government pay for (and own) courses that would be free for all, as well as setting up a system to assess learning in those courses, and creating a "National Skills College" to coordinate these efforts, the plan could be significant far beyond its dollars.
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- the impact of bringing free online courses to those who may need basic skills and job training could have much more of an impact than the free courses from elite universities.
- "I couldn't think of a more important target than high schools and community colleges for open courses," he said.
- According to the draft materials from the administration, the program would support the development of 20-25 "high quality" courses a year, with a mix of high school and community college courses. Initial preference would go to "career oriented" courses. The courses would be owned by the government and would be free for anyone to take. Courses would be selected competitively, through peer review, for support. And the courses would be "modular" or "object based" such that they would be "interoperable" and could be offered with a variety of technology platforms.
- Advocates for open courses guess that the proposal reflects the ideas of Martha J. Kanter, the under secretary of education. Kanter was previously chancellor of the Foothill-De Anza Community College District. In that position, she helped to create the Community College Consortium for Open Education Resources, which has pioneered the idea of making textbooks and other course materials for community college students available free and online.
- As for concerns that the students who could benefit might not have laptops or Internet access, Bonk said that was a real concern. But now, he said, students lack those things and perceive college as too expensive. By making courses available free, he said, communities can then expand library access to computers, or start laptop programs -- and this will make more sense when the tuition issue is removed. "I think the ability to tell people, 'Hey there are these courses now available for free' is going to create incentives for lots of laptop programs to appear," he said.
- J. Noah Brown, president of the Association of Community College Trustees, said that the proposals the administration is drafting "reflect big priorities of ours." Brown said that the colleges recognize that the administration "can't cure all of our infrastructure ills" or sagging budgets. But he said that with community colleges being forced to limit enrollments in ways "that break my heart," these programs are a huge advance.

29 Mar 09

Environmental Economics Search Engine (S.Rubenzer- E-Learning for Educators, UW-Stout)

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12 Mar 09

E-Learning Curve Blog

Thanks to Rich Jaenke in the E-learning for Educators group for this blog. New to me and just in time info I can use.

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Information can and (should even) be encoded and transmitted using both visual and auditory (narration) channels. If verbal information is encoded auditorily it reduces the cognitive load of the learner. Consequently their working memory can process information more effectively. Mayer has calls this the the Modality Principle.

10 Feb 09

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05 Jan 09

6 Quick Steps to Create a Game Based E-learning Course « One-Stop Resource for Instructional Designing

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Using game concepts in learning will definitely engage and interest the learner.

Instead of giving lectures and lessons on a subject, try presenting the subject as a problem or an activity to the learner and allow him to solve the problem or participate in the activity. Learning must happen as the learner tries to solve the problem or indulges in the activity.

20 Dec 08

CMS: CMS Home

The EduTools site has been re-launched as a community-driven site, beginning with the Course Management System (CMS) site. Just like the original EduTools site, we continue to offer feature-by-feature product comparisons and decision-making supports. In addition, the site now includes the ability for any user to submit reviews for new products that haven't already been reviewed or to add their own feedback as to how well specific products have implemented various features.

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18 Dec 08

Universities and the Corporate E-Learning Market « Strategy, Research and Management in Online Higher Education

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Now many of these same schools are rushing to add online training to their corporate market offerings. The transition to the Net, however, may fall short of expectations for both the universities and their clients. Online education – particularly the development of course content – requires certain skills, organizational structures, and operational strategies that are rarely found among traditional universities. Unlike the corporate sector, and certain parts of the non-profit sector, universities have not adjusted their course development practices to the new demands of online education.
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- There are, however, great differences between the process of creating and delivering online education in the commercial and higher education sectors. In the commercial sector, online content is typically developed by a team of specialists that may include a subject-matter expert, instructional designer, project manager, quality assurance experts, learner-support staff, programmers, and the instructor. This is essentially an industrial approach to course development, in so far as it assumes, correctly I think, that no one individual could possibly have the myriad of skills or time required to single-handedly create high quality online content.
- When most traditional universities develop online courses they draw directly from the traditions and logic of their centuries-old classroom model, what has been described as the ‘cottage-industry’ model. In this approach, individual professors are often almost entirely responsible for the quality of the online course, just as they have long been in the classroom. While universities routinely set up service departments that are staffed by e-learning specialists (the same staff used in the commercial sector), these specialists are rarely directly involved in course design. Instead, they have an ‘arms-length’ relationship to the courses; often acting as trainers of the instructors, for example. Notably, these services provided by the university are used by instructors on an ‘as-needed’ basis. It is the instructor, herself, not the institution that decides whether she needs assistance.
- The resistance to adopting substantially different models of course development in higher education stems from a number of factors, the most important of which is the desire for autonomy among academics.
- Universities have historically focused on the generation of knowledge, rather than on the strategies for effectively presenting knowledge.
- Although there have been efforts in universities during the past decade to pay more attention to teaching quality, professors are still rewarded largely on the basis of research and publishing activities, not on the effectiveness of the classroom experiences they provide.
- unlike K12 teachers, university professors often enter the field of university teaching with no teacher training whatsoever. Most professors remain, primarily, subject matter experts.

10 Dec 08

eLearning Authoring Tools : eLearning Technology

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Several questions came up recently around Authoring Tools and I wanted to point people to some past posts on authoring tools that I think serve as good foundation.

20 Nov 08

Sloan-C International Symposium | Emerging Technology Applications for Online Learning

The Sloan-C International Symposium on Emerging Technology Applications for Online Learning is designed to bring together individuals interested in the technological aspects of online learning. Experts, intermediate users and novices are welcome to participate in Symposium activities that will include face-to-face and virtual components. This event will be held on June 17-19, 2009 at the Hyatt Regency in San Francisco, California.

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11 Nov 08

» 5 Common Quiz Question Mistakes (And How to Avoid Them) The Rapid eLearning Blog

Assessing the learner’s progress is important. How else can we provide the best feedback or certify that the learner’s met a certain level of understanding? That’s why we need to ask the right questions. Avoid the following mistakes and you’ll create a more effective learning experience.

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31 Oct 08

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