Listly by Ludmila Smirnova
This is a list of resources about the online teaching and learning
Facilitating an online environment has its own set of characteristics and challenges. When designing online learning, it's more important to drive it from the learning challenge rather than the technology perspective. You also need to design for student activity rather than delivery of content.
It allows educators to run their own education platform with almost 100 edu tools & features - from online courses, certificates & tests, to student management, multi-device access, student analytics and more.
This is my presentation for the Professional Development day at Mount Saint Mary College, Newburgh, NY. Jan. 15, 2014
Effective teaching depends on effective planning and design. Many problems that can occur once a course is in motion can be prevented by advance preparation and planning for your students' learning.
Pedagogy Instructional Best Practices Using Technology The following is a list of endorsed best practices that you may wish to explore and/or implement in your online course: Guidelines for Synchronous Assignments Organization: Instructional Design Well-designed course pages, rubrics, lessons, and assignments are paramount to superior design of online courses.
Pedagogy Best Practices Resources The following links provide you with checklists, rubrics, and principles for best practices in online courses: American Distance Education Consortium (ADEC) Guiding Principles for Distance Learning http://www.adec.edu/admin/papers/distance-learning_principles.html Southern Regional Education Board's (SREB) Electronic Campus Principles of Good Practice Checklist http://www.jsums.edu/distanceed/files/2013/08/SREB-Principles_of_Good_Practice_Checklist_2006.pdf Middle States Commission on Higher Education.
In this article the author shares her experience in creating the interactive syllabus. Samples are provided
View a sample of an interactive syllabus, designed by Michelle Pakansky-Brock
By the completion of this course, you will be able to: Explore the camera as a photographic tool over time. Map historical photographic concepts to current digital references. Identify a variety of successful photographers and examples of their work. Class Philosophy Some online learners start classes feeling isolated but not in this class!
J. V. Boettcher, Ph.D. Designing for Learning 2006 - 2013 Minor revisions May 2011 Our knowledge about what works well in online teaching and learning is growing rapidly and that is very good news. Yet it also means that it is easy to feel overwhelmed.
An Albion page.
As we return from spring break to the normal demands of the semester, it's a great time to think about student motivation. How effectively are your courses engaging your students and motivating them to learn?
"Online Education: More Than MOOCs" is a collection of news articles and opinion essays -- in print-on-demand format -- about the many forms of online learning that continue to develop outside the white-hot glare of hype surrounding massive open online courses.
The nature of scoop.it is user-driven, and new content is created every day by users. Day to day, educators, specialists comb through the content and look for the best posts and writers and then share the findings with the communities.
This social networking platform can be used for learners to collect the resources for projects, research and share it with the peers.
This module provides suggestions and strategies to help prepare students for learning in an online environment. This module is part of the Best Practices in Online Teaching Course created by Penn State University World Campus as a guide for faculty who are new to teaching in an online environment.
Meet your Professor video
A 4 minute 24 second Movenote presentation.
This is a video-introduction to the Literacy and Technology course
This is an example of the greeting from a student to the next class.
This module focuses on finding ways to motivate students to take control of their own learning in an online teaching environment. This module is part of the Best Practices in Online Teaching Course created by Penn State University World Campus as a guide for faculty who are new to teaching in an online environment.
This module focuses on how to assess student messages in an online discussion forum when teaching in an online environment. This module is part of the Best Practices in Online Teaching Course created by Penn State University World Campus as a guide for faculty who are new to teaching in an online environment.
Global Citizenship is... Global Citizenship does
How to stop talking about technology integration and just use it?!
The Movenote app lets you record video alongside documents or pictures to create an integrated video presentation with slides. Creating presentations is easy and fast. Simply record video with your device and swipe to synchronize the slides to the video. Presentations are shared by sending a link to the recipient and can be viewed without the app.
Present.me - the video presentation platform. Spread your ideas, not just your PowerPoint, Prezi, Keynote or PDF. No software to install, all you need is your slides, a webcam and YOU!