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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.
Notably, the report attributes much of the success in learning online (blended or entirely) not to technology but to time.
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- 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."

05 Feb 09

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My prediction? More technology, but not necessarily more sense about how to use it.
We'll see an increase in synchronous online classes, conferences, concerts, and other Kantian (time and place based) applications.
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- Countries will begin to see the value of subsidizing this type of e-learning, as opposed to more traditional schooling.
- For others who are concerned that students are actually learning, experimentation with creative approaches to e-learning might occur.
- A ruined economy will demand trained workers and college degrees will matter less than real abilities
- Others will follow. Real education, according to the second president of the United States, John Adams, "...is about learning to live and learning to make a living" an idea that got lost between the late 1700s and today. High schools and universities have simply failed to teach what needs to be taught.
- Instead they will become more reliant on employee-generated content
- There will also be a growing trend toward adopting a top-down approach to using social media in organizations by building a social media/learning strategy and implementing a platform that integrates a number of social media tools for enterprise use.
- The trend toward teaching language online from peer-to-peer in 2008 will continue to mushroom and lead to greater acceptance not just of teaching languages in free and collaborative ways, but of entire courses, programs, and degrees. As free and open learning becomes the norm for millions of learners around the globe, high schools, universities, and corporate training centers will need to adjust their policies, procedures, and philosophies related to teaching and learning. If not, it may be time to say goodbye to many of them in 2009.
- In its place will arise a more natural approach to learning through collaboration and sharing. There are great times ahead, an era of fulfilling, bounteous learning unprecedented in human history. However, the journey to this promised land will be brutal and unforgiving for people and organizations who resist change and lobby for "back to the basics."
- As a result, online content is becoming easier to maintain. Social interaction and social presence tools such as discussion forums, social networking and resource sharing, IM, and Twitter are increasingly being used to provide formal and informal support that has been missing too long from self-paced instruction.
- E-learning will finally break free of the courses-online model as more people realize the business benefits of networked informal learning.
- This combination of personal mentoring plus tailored e-learning environments for students could&mdashif we are imaginative&mdashwill usher in an age of personalized learning analogous to the movement toward personalized health care.
- E-learning could enable campuses to fulfill their obligation to serve the incoming tidal wave by expanding the capacity of their pipelines. As they also face severe cuts, it may mean focusing on delivering good product to the customer efficiently and trimming administrative salaries (Why am I thinking of car companies?), hiring more faculty, and deploying innovative technology.
- "Learning" as a discrete activity will take a back seat to the contextual tagging and appearance of appropriate knowledge chunks in support of specific tasks in real time.
- Instructional designers in corporations, public institutions, military, and higher education will increasingly use newer electronic communication tools such as wikis and social networks as well as older tools such as listservs, discussion forums, and blogs to cultivate learning communities within organizations. Whether tethered to distinct courses, as is now common in higher education, or as ongoing communities of practice, the challenge is to create structures and activities that generate informal content&mdashsuch as stories from the field&mdashin support of learning, training, or performance goals.
- Cloud computing will be the dominating factor for e-learning practices, as it allows for cost-effective, efficient, and an environmentally friendly form of educational and training opportunities.
- As a result of cloud computing, individuals with specific expertise will be able to offer their unique professional development services throughout the world at a much more affordable cost than traditional academic and training institutions.
- Social media use will increase because it saves money as it keeps knowledge in a central place (quick retrievability, international access,…). Educational policies will enable educational institutions to come to terms with new learning technologies and not banish them bluntly. Mobile learning will grow, especially in developing countries, as landlines are skipped in those regions.
- My advice to the e-learning community this year is to pay very close attention to the culture in which you are implementing. Ignoring the impact on culture will be the Achilles' heel of e-learning implementations in 2009.
- Thus, new synergies shall emerge between the traditional public sector IT providers and e-Learning related companies. Web 2.0 tools will continue to thrive and will be used to facilitate semantic tagging and annotation in already existing content, making it possible to incorporate such content in educational curricula, as well as in cultural and scientific digital resources libraries.
- Learning professionals' fears of obsolescence, expectations of connected employees, and demands for quicker solutions will drive the rest of us to increasingly abandon traditional instructional design (for realz!) in favor of experimentation&mdashcreating messy, loosely structured courses supplemented with low-cost social software and old-school support tools like job aids. Employees, craving personalization, will "go rogue" using tools and creating content that best suit their needs&mdashwhether supported by the organization or not
- I have been exploring frameworks during 2008 that give designers and developers the ability to create applications that can reside both online and on desktops; a capability that is quite frankly a little overwhelming when one thinks in terms of interoperability.

09 Jan 09

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facilitation should aim to stimulate critical thinking.
Your role therefore becomes one of "provocateur" asking questions, guiding learners to the right information, engineering debate and discovery.
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- connect people by highlighting similarities and differences
- Try not to always be the "authority"
- Be proactive in setting limits for the discussion
- Use open-ended questions and encourage learners to answer each others questions.
- Summarise key points and draw conclusions as the discussion ensues.
- This is where many learners become acquainted with the technology for the first time, and become familiar with the asynchronous discussion process. For this reason it is a good idea to begin with simple introductory content which enables learners to get a sense of the people with whom they are studying and, in the process, iron out any initial technical problems.
- As a general rule you will need to commit more time to participation early in the discussion.
- In the first forum it is important to provide a short, personal response to each posting.
- letting your learners know how often they can expect to 'see' you and then to be visible when you say you are going to be.
- good facilitation involves helping individual students to manage their time online. Look out for signals that students may be feeling overloaded with information or spending an excessive amount of time in the discussion.
- Text-based discussion requires a writing style that enables learners to overcome the lack of non-verbal cues that are associated with quality in face to face communication.
- Generally, the tone you adopt requires a careful blend of the formal and informal:
- From the outset establish a warm, friendly but purposeful tone.
  Use paragraphs and bullet points so that messages are not too dense.
  Aim for one screen of information per post.
  Use open ended questions and create opportunities for responses and interaction.
  Provide a glossary of terms somewhere in the course outline to clarify special terms or jargon.
- Especially in the early stages of discussion, it is important to reply to posts - as soon as possible.

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