Calling all educators! Please contribute your thoughts, expertise and resources in this crowd sourced wall related to the following questions: 1. How do you demonstrate teaching presence in face-to-face classrooms? 2. As learning moves into online spaces, how do we develop a teaching presence to support students?
With more than 12 years of professional online learning experience, Houston C. Tucker shares key tips on transforming virtual schools Full-time, online public schools originated as alternatives to traditional education approaches and were even bandied about as ways to revolutionize the learning paradigm.
Say what you like about technology use in the classroom, the biggest difference for me is that it changes the way I teach, and the way my students learn. That may seem easier for me to say, since I'm a mostly-live online teacher.
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Scott Merrick is the v-Learning Specialist at Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools (TN). Here, he recounts how the district built a virtual school, how he keeps students engaged and how he plans to expand the school's offerings.
Otus is a free online learning environment that I first learned about in July. One of the founders of the company recently gave me a hands-on tour of the environment, I was impressed by the possibilities of what I saw.
Flickr:VFS As the number of K-12 students who take online courses continues to grow - more than two million are currently enrolled - the need to uphold rigorous standards to online education is becoming that much more important.
To hear some ed tech enthusiasts tell it, online learning is sweeping aside the barriers that have in the past prevented access to education. But such pronouncements are premature. As it turns out, students often carry these barriers right along with them, from the real world into the virtual one.
Each year Fuel Education partners with EdNET Insight to conduct a nationwide survey to understand best practices in implementing online and blended learning. This year's survey, to be published in the fall, once again has "teachers available to intervene/assist students in a timely manner" h as one of the highest rated attributes of a successful online or blended program.
More than 7.1 million students are currently taking at least one online course. Despite the apparent popularity, however, educators have given the trend low marks. But a new study from MIT suggests naysayers should think otherwise.
The last post posed the question: "Are digital natives automatically good e-learners? " My response to this question was that this doesn't necessarily turn out to be true in real practice. I would suggest to you the following additional observations about digital natives and e-learning: The assumption that digital natives are proficient with all things involving computers, mobile or otherwise, is false.
When we launched Edublogs nearly a decade ago, it was with the ultimate goal of extending learning beyond the four walls of traditional classrooms. This has been our mission with every single thing that we do. With that, today we're introducing CoursePress, a brand new plugin that takes online learning to a whole new level.
Guest post by Frank Freeman, co-founder of Propagate. Whether you're a teacher, parent, or tutor, you've probably been faced with the challenge of needing to explain something to a student through a digital medium such as phone, email or text. As a private tutor, graduate school instructor, and entrepreneur, I've collected many ideas on how to do this successfully.
Nowadays, more and more eLearning professionals in their effort to keep up-to-date with latest trends in instructional design for eLearning, try to employ a non-linear instructional design approach for their eLearning courses.
Although the concept of non-linearity in eLearning course design may seem straightforward, misconceptions about non-linearity in instructional design are common. In this article, I'll discuss some common misconceptions about non-linearity, as well as the fact that, in most cases, instructional designers follow a mixed approach, including both linear and non-linear elements.
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