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According to this survey, rethinking pedagogy for online takes longer than learning technology. Developing online courses does take longer, especially the first time, but as faculty gain experience, they become more efficient.
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In Freeman’s research, it appears that it takes an instructor a little longer to figure out what they want to do with the course pedagogically than to become comfortable with the technology.
“That’s one of the biggest things, that the technological learning curve is shorter than the pedagogical learning curve,” Freeman says. “The technology’s not the problem. It’s not what’s making people take longer when they teach.”
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Freeman was able to demonstrate that, once past the first online course, there is a significant reduction of instructor time. This leads him to believe that much of the complaint of excessive time consumption probably comes from the first-time experience.
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Quick comparison of when to use discussion forums, blogs/journals, and wikis for assignments,
Ning community for online faculty, with lots of resources for effective practices available even to non-members. Includes information on SUNY/SLN's faculty development process
Checklist from SUNY for interaction and assessment for online courses.
Process to guide faculty in converting courses to online, with readings, checklists, examples, and other resources from SUNY
Rubrics for assessing assignments, including wiki, blog, twitter, online discussions, and more. From UW-Stout by Karen Franker and others
Tony O'Driscoll explains how he uses social media with an MBA course. He also talks about social technology in the broader context of the enterprise.
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In this new context, by comparison, anybody who writes anything, whether it’s an individual or a team, is now exposed in the commons. Everybody is required to review three deliverables other than their own and rank and review them. That’s a little foreign, and there’s a fair amount of pushback on that. People say, “What do you mean, other people can see my stuff?” And I say, “Well, that’s how peer learning works.”
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The motive in this kind of social context is altruism. It’s to help others. By contrast, the motive in a business context is all about profit.
Enterprise behavior is different. You can’t take the same social technologies and plop them into a profit-making context and expect that people will immediately engage. The question is, once the underlying motivation shifts from purpose to profit, will the motivation to engage persist?
A physics professor at Harvard discusses the improvements to learning results when he stopped lecturing and started using small group discussions and peer learning. He's using a more engaging and interactive way to teach even though he has large classes with 100+ students.
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At a recent class, the students — nearly 100 of them — are in small groups discussing a question. Three possible answers to the question are projected on a screen. Before the students start talking with one another, they use a mobile device to vote for their answer. Only 29 percent got it right. After talking for a few minutes, Mazur tells them to answer the question again.
This time, 62 percent of the students get the question right. Next, Mazur leads a discussion about the reasoning behind the answer. The process then begins again with a new question. This is a method Mazur calls "peer Instruction." He now teaches all of his classes this way.
"What we found over now close to 20 years of using this approach is that the learning gains at the end of the semester nearly triple," he says.
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Mazur says the key is to get them to do the assigned reading — what he calls the "information-gathering" part of education — before they come to class.
"In class, we work on trying to make sense of the information," Mazur says. "Because if you stop to think about it, that second part is actually the hardest part. And the information transfer, especially now that we live in an information age, is the easiest part."
Curt Bonk's collected list of masters and doctoral programs in instructional technology
Learning Solutions Magazine article on online education programs for instructional designers. Compares certificates to masters degrees and PhDs. Includes ideas on how to pick a program that is the right fit for you. The table at the end with a list of schools, programs, and costs is very helpful.
Mega list of online resources related to assessment--tools, journals, conferences, consultants, glossaries, online discussions, portfolio tools, handbooks, and more
Selections from a literature review on the efficacy of online learning. Lots of resources from seven sites, mostly focused on higher ed
Check the comments for responses from people who have ID degrees or certificates and share their thoughts
A list of Masters degree and certificate programs in instructional design and technology
Case study examining what types of interactions (student-teacher, student-student, student-content) students found most valuable in an instructor-led self-paced online course.
Notes on a session with Karl Kapp comparing instructional design in corporate & higher ed environments.
General thoughts on telepresence for online collaboration and learning
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But through a combination of HD technology, interface design, and careful attention to room geometry, these telepresence systems are on the verge of erasing the physical and psychological distance between participants in online collaboration and learning.
Info on colleges offering ed tech and instructional design degrees
Response to a question about whether universities should teach personal branding
Lots of open courseware classes from different universities, sorted by subject. Nice to have an aggregated list from the various sources
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