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So with all this rumbling, what do the three national unions that represent faculty members think about the MOOC movement and the faculty role? So far, they are dubious at best, and say that they are studying the issues involved.
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Education calls for real interaction with faculty members and a consensus through which faculty members can design, manage and evaluate degree programs, he said. “It’s fine to put lectures online, but this plan only degrades degree programs if it plans to substitute for them.”
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what appears to be a democratization process might be more aristocratic than democratic.
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.”
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)
"Designing Online Instruction that Develops Critical and Creative Thinking Skills,"
"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)
"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)
"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)
"Successfully fostering interaction in online courses requires incorporating both instructional and social types of interaction in discussion boards" (EDUCAUSE Quarterly)
"SCORM (Shareable Content Object Reference Model) is a world-wide standard set of specifications for communication between elearning content and learning management systems."
"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)
"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"
"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)
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