Principles for Excellence in Online Teaching

The authors of this article compiled a list of 9 principles to provide direction in the search for online teaching excellence.
In our view, an excellent online course is one in which the student is able to focus on the course itself and the medium of delivery becomes transparent to this process. It is one that [...]

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Honored to be Nominated for an Education Shorty Award

It all started on Dec 28th when I was checking my Twitter: I found these 2 tweets:
- shortyawards @emapey, you were nominated by @nycrican2 for a #education Shorty Award http://bit.ly/hGIo 8:23 PM Dec 28th, 2008
- shortyawards @emapey, you were nominated by @buthaina (and 1 other) for a #education Shorty Award http://bit.ly/hGIo 8:40 PM Dec [...]

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Learning 2.0 With Blackboard Online Learning LMS

Another great post from Lisa M. Lane shows us how to use the Blackboard LMS to administrate a college online course while using outside Learning 2.0 tools (blogs, wikis) we want to use for teaching. Blackboard is still a very popular LMS for the administration of college online courses.

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Collaborative Learning in Online Courses

Links to articles about benefits, students engagement and socialization strategies, conflict resolution and grading in collaborative learning groups:
- CITE Journal – Teacher Perspectives on Online Collaborative Learning
- Assessment in and of Collaborative Learning: A handbook of Strategies
- Collaborative Learning – GDRC
- Workshop: Cooperative and Collaborative Learning – Thirteen Ed Online
- JTE – Collaborative [...]

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Smooth Transition to Online Teaching

Random Mind attended a round table given by Bret Nelson of San Jacinto College at the 2007 Conference on Information Technology, on making a smooth transition to online teaching. Her post seems to have captured the essence of the round table.
Topics included:
- On the difference between teaching online and teaching face-to-face
- On developing your [...]

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How Students Learn Video

This video was created by Prof Wesch and the 200 students enrolled in ANTH 200: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology at Kansas State University, Spring 2007. It began as a brainstorming exercise, thinking about how students learn, what they need to learn for their future, and how our current educational system fits in. Via: bwatwood’s [...]

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Do Learning Management Systems (LMS) Limit Instructional Creativity and Pedagogy?

In addition to a counterintuitive organizational scheme, integrated commercial systems have a built-in pedagogy, evident in the easiest-to-use, most accessible features. The focus on presentation (written documents to read), complemented by basic “discussion” input from students, is based on traditional lecture, review, and test pedagogy. This orientation is very different from the development of [...]

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Online Teaching – Seven Principles for Good Practice in Online Undergraduate Education

The Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education is a popular framework for evaluating teaching in traditional, face-to-face courses
You can read how these Seven Principles are used to evaluate good practice in online undergraduate courses:
- TLT Group
- The Technology Source Archives
- SUNY Learning Network
- Journal of Online Learning and Teaching
- Journal [...]

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Trends Affecting Administrators of Distance Education

This article provides decision makers with 32 trends that affect distance learning and thus enable them to plan accordingly. The trends are organized into categories as they pertain to students and enrollment, faculty members, academics, technology, the economy, and distance learning. All the trends were identified during an extensive review of current literature in [...]

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E-learning 2.0: E-learning Evolving With the Web 2.0

E-learning as we know it has been around for ten years or so. During that time, it has emerged from being a radical idea—the effectiveness of which was yet to be proven—to something that is widely regarded as mainstream. It’s the core to numerous business plans and a service offered by most colleges and universities.
And [...]

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