Science Labs for Online Science Courses

Examples from faculty teaching online science laboratory courses.
Universities using lab kits and other methods to offer lab sciences at a distance, University of Arkansas Distance Education Task Force Blog
Free online physics, chemistry, biology, earth science and math simulations, PhET project at the University of Colorado.
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Planning Distance Learning – Trends Affecting Online Learning

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 the [...]

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Letters to Online Course Authors and Developers

Jeff Borden blogged about how not to build an online course. These are 2 “must read posts” for online teachers and college administrators.
I saw one of your courses the other day. Whoops! It’s hard to know where to start in trying to explain the numerous problems I saw, but I’ll try to [...]

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Backup the Web Sites you Use for Presentations on Online Classes and Virtual Conferences

Lisa M. Lane posted:
Then I got fancier with my History of England and Western Civ classes. I linked out to websites. I thought, what was the point of a class being web-based if there weren’t any hyperlinks? So I linked to informative, sometimes fascinating, websites from every lecture page. Then, when I recorded [...]

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Twitter Conversation: Introducing New Learning 2.0 Tools in your Organization

This is my Twitter conversation I had with my friend Gabriela Sellart about the resistance from students to using new Learning 2.0 tools.
Gabriela asked:
gsellart: how do you convince your students to write directly on the wiki, instead of copying/pasting from word?about 2 hours ago from TwitterFox
emapey2: @gsellart They want to have a copy and [...]

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Teaching and Managing Large Online Classes

Jonathan P. Mathews, assistant professor of energy and geo-environmental engineering at Penn State University, teaches a high-enrollment (more than 400 students) general education online course, Energy and the Environment. Although he has two teaching assistants, the logistics of managing such a large class would be overwhelming without implementing the following online course design and management [...]

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How to Teach Online Chemistry Laboratory Courses

Online Degrees have not yet caught on for most science courses that require laboratory sessions, as many educators think they can’t teach the lab sessions outside of the classroom.
This is a list of articles I have found, explaining teachers and professors how they can teach chemistry laboratory courses online.
- Kitchen Chemistry Provides Distance Learners [...]

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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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