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Dr. Tony Bates is the author of eleven books in the field of online learning and distance education. He has provided consulting services specializing in training in the planning and management of online learning and distance education, working with over 40 organizations in 25 countries. Tony is a Research Associate with Contact North | Contact Nord, Ontario’s Distance Education & Training Network.
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Amy Bruckman finds the accomplishments of such online collaborations as Wikipedia, Apache and Firefox “nothing less than astounding,” and is both eagerly seeking and hoping to foster the next creative group Internet sensation.
In her lab’s empirical studies, Bruckman has dissected different types of ensemble internet projects. She describes them as “naturally occurring constructionist learning environments,” where individuals bring “who they are to the process of making meaning,” and receive from their community technical and emotional support. This stuff matters, she says, because “people working together can create mind-bogglingly interesting stuff,” not least because the most inclusive projects reflect the values of all their contributors.
Hi impact, curated magazine of articles and professional resources for those interested in e-learning and online teaching. Published by Dennis O'Connor, Program Advisor for the University of Wisconsin Stout E-Learning and Online Teaching Graduate Certificate Program.
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As designers of electronic learning and information, we often find ourselves confronted by the purpose of the learning. Electronic Learning is about performance and content; in a sense instructional design is not purely creative; it is design with intent.
Our storyboards and design documents need to be an extension of this intent. Design documentation may not be about solving problems, but it can help avoid them by providing an elegant way to document design intent.
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Learning spans the lifetime. Yet, learning there is little collaboration between K-12, College and Corporate Learning. We do little sharing, almost no common research and rarely leverage technologies across our sectors.
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Educators need to connect with and learn from each other.
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One suggestion that may change the way we all think about teaching online is to talk with you students everyday by phone. That certainly puts the synchronous element at the top of the list.
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Educators who teach in an online setting should foster strong relationships with their students’ parents and should offer plenty of positive feedback, says the nation’s first-ever K-12 Online Teacher of the Year.
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This special report, another installment in Education Week's series on virtual education, examines the growing e-learning opportunities for students with disabilities, English-language learners, gifted and talented students, and those at risk of failing in school. It shows the barriers that exist for greater participation among special populations, as well as the benefits and drawbacks of this approach. It also looks at the funding tactics schools are using to build virtual education programs for special populations and the evolving professional-development needs for these efforts.
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Download the interactive PDF version of the report, E-Learning for Special Populations.
This is a 5 Module self paced course that leads you through the process of creating a GoogleSite for an eTeacher. Very clever!
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Becoming an eTeacher by Erin Harmer, Ed Du Vivier, Michael Seery, & Paul Melrose is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.
in list: K-12 Online Toolkit
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Stepping into a virtual learning environment can help struggling students interact with curricula in a new way, begin learning with a clean slate, and provide more flexibility to accommodate work or family obligations, say educators and experts working online with students who are at risk of academic failure.
But none of those factors will make such students successful unless they have the support and resources they need to engage with the material and the motivation to work hard for their credits, experts stress.
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Community has never been lost. Yet since the Industrial Revolution, most people have believed that large-scale technological and social changes had destroyed community in the developed world and were well on their way to killing it in developing countries. Policymakers and pundits echoed and reinforced this belief, and until a generation ago, most social scientists agreed with them.
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Wherever they have looked, researchers have found thriving communities.
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Genetically-evolved human capacities to invent and communicate led to social institutions that favored genotypes better able to live in cooperative groups — human nature is, to a large degree, defined by our social capabilities -- but the invention of culture took the evolution of cooperation into the symbolic and out of the genetic level. Authors call this the "social instincts hypothesis."
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People are innately prepared to act as members of tribes, but culture tells us how to recognize who belongs to our tribes, what schedules of aid, praise, and punishment are due to tribal fellows, and how the tribe is to deal with other tribes: allies, enemies, and clients."
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News about Information Fluency, online education, 6-traits writing, web 2.0 and other tech oriented passions. Use the E-Learning Jobs Tag to find work as an online teacher or curriculum desinger.
Another great video from COFA in Austrailia. I met these folks via Facebook. Their videos are superb.
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Discussions are an important component of many forms of online student interaction. For students to benefit from an online discussion, it is important for teachers to generate relevant topics, effectively moderate student activity and participate regularly. This episode will highlight several strategies to help you manage online discussions more effectively, and make them more beneficial for your students.
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The Federal Government Distance Learning Association (FGDLA) is a nonprofit, professional association formed to promote the development and application of distance learning in the Federal Government
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The FGDLA is a chapter of the United States Distance Learning Association.
in list: K-12 Online Toolkit
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Joubert argues that virtual school allows students and teachers to work more closely together. “Students still talk with their teachers; you might even say they talk more. When I was in school, you didn’t have many one-on-one conversations with your teachers. Your teachers spoke to you, they didn’t speak with you. Here, they do oral exams, they talk with the kids, they really get to know each student.”
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By having this type of learning, we are able to still have a family life. We have the ability to travel when we want to and choose our time. You can’t do that in traditional schools. Our kids have had the opportunity to go places and see things that other students don’t get to.
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