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Insights into Promoting Critical Thinking in Online Classes
Murchú and Muirhead have related key theories to best practices in teaching and learning. Critical thinking is crucial to facilitate higher levels of learning. It goes broader and deeper than problem solving, and “often requires reflecting on information from several academic disciplines or knowledge domains.”
Evaluating Online Learning
Education in this country has evolved dramatically from the days of one teacher in a one-room schoolhouse. today, student learning is no longer confined to a physical space. Computers and the Internet have broken through school walls, giving students greater opportunities to personalize their education, access distant resources, receive extra help or ore-challenging assignments, and engage in learning in new and unique ways. (No Child Left Behind)
Some Best Practices for Online Teaching
"Designing Online Instruction that Develops Critical and Creative Thinking Skills,"
Tips for Managing Larger Online Classes
"The following simple tips can assist instructors in fine-tuning the course for a greater number of students while still adhering to the course learning objectives and to UMUC's commitment to student-centered, interactive online classes. Each tip is grounded in the principles of arranging the class so that you can interact more with the whole class and groups of students, encouraging active learning and student initiative, and reserving precious time for providing feedback on major assignments to individual students." ( DE Oracle @ UMUC)
What's Online Learning Really Like?
"The Chronicle‘s Goldie Blumenstyk has covered distance education for more than a decade, and during that time she’s written stories about the economics of for-profit education, the ways that online institutions market themselves, and the demise of the 50-percent rule. About the only thing she hadn’t done, it seemed, was to take a course from an online university.
But this spring she finally took the plunge, and now she has completed a class in government and nonprofit accounting through the University of Phoenix. She shares tales from the cyber-classroom — and her final grade — in a podcast with Paul Fain, a Chronicle reporter. " (Chronicle.com)
Best Practices in Online Learning
"Many of the suggested activities in this chapter encourage in-depth investigation and planning. We anticipate that you will want to complete these after reading the chapter. We have developed a word document to assist you that you may download or print. Or, you may choose to create your own document using the information provided as a guide." (NLN Living Book)
Using Interaction in Online Discussion Boards
"Successfully fostering interaction in online courses requires incorporating both instructional and social types of interaction in discussion boards" (EDUCAUSE Quarterly)
SCORM in 5 minutes or less, with pictures!
"SCORM (Shareable Content Object Reference Model) is a world-wide standard set of specifications for communication between elearning content and learning management systems."
Theory and Practice of Online Learning (pdf)
"The book is available for purchase or as a free download. Topics include social media, philosophies of technology, mobile learning, cost decisions about technology, libraries, learner support and more. On a personal note, I appreciated Mohamed Ally's opening chapter on learning theory, including extensive discussion on connectivism. The broad range of subjects, both theoretical and practical, ensures that this publication will continue to be a critical resource for trainers, educators, and students." (elearnspace)
Providing clear structures and guidance for online learners
"n a small-scale implementation where the technology incorporated does not include a LMS, there may be no features to help teachers develop such a schedule of activities. On the other hand, if the online course is built around a wiki or blog, the teacher is not constrained by the LMS interface." (Verso)
Approved Minimum Standards of Excellence for WOSC Online Courses
"Approved Minimum Standards of Excellence for WOSC Online Courses"
Hybrid Courses More Effective for Students
"A technical report from a University of Houston Department of Health and Human Performance researcher finds that students in a hybrid class that incorporated instructional technology with in-class lectures scored a letter grade higher on average than their counterparts who took the same class in a more traditional format." (University of Houston Study)
Instructional Design for Online Learning: A NERCOMP SIG Event
"While many educators, particularly those involved in online learning, may feel a pressing need to understand the ins and outs of instructional design, they're still not quite sure what it is--or even if it's necessary! I must confess that, at times, I even count myself among that crowd." (Academic Commons)
You Can Teach Online
"Here's a collection of sites tha I have found very useful as free resources for most any topic on distance learning. I will be continually adding to this site, and invite you to submit your favorite free and useful sites for DL resources." (G. Moore)
Learning Resources
"ADEC is a non-profit distance education consortium composed of approximately 65 state universities and land-grant colleges. The consortium was conceived and developed to promote the creation and provision of high quality, economical distance education programs and services to diverse audiences, by the land grant community of colleges and universities, through the most appropriate information technologies available. "
WiZiQ Online Teaching, E-Learning and Live E-tutoring for Education
The free online teaching and e-learning platform. Find teachers, network, use the web-based Virtual Classroom for collaboration and conferencing, ...
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