Posts Tagged ‘course management system’
October 18 - Pearson Launches OpenClass, a Free LMS
By: Mary Bart in Trends in Higher Education
In a major move to increase access and collaboration in higher education, last week Pearson launched a free learning management system (LMS) delivered from the Cloud. Dubbed OpenClass it offers institutions and instructors the ability to engage and interact with their students using the collaborative technologies that students are embracing.
March 31 - Embedding Web 2.0 Tools into Your Course Management System
By: Mary Bart in Instructional Design
If Web 1.0 was about information, then Web 2.0 is about sharing information. This second generation of the web is more personalized, more collaborative, and more engaging. Is it any wonder faculty are looking for ways to leverage these capabilities in their courses?
February 4 - Free Web 2.0 Tools to Use Inside Your LMS
By: Mary Bart in Online Seminars
Teaching with Web 2.0 technologies can transform and reinvigorate your classes while unleashing student and faculty potential. This seminar will help you find the most powerful online applications and explain how to put them to work in your classes.
October 30 - Policies for More Meaningful Participation in Online Discussions
By: Rob Kelly in Online Education
One instructor’s study of student participation in online discussions in two of his asynchronous online courses over a five-year period has yielded some interesting results that have influenced how he conducts his courses.
October 5 - Using Shared Online Video to Anchor Instruction: YouTube and Beyond
By: Curtis J. Bonk, PhD. in Instructional Design, Trends in Higher Education
It was August 26, 2009. That evening I receive a phone call from someone in Japan looking to create free online math and science courses on mobile devices for youth in India using existing shared online video. The following day, I get an email from a colleague at a university in Canada who had just read my new book, The World Is Open: How Web Technology Is Revolutionizing Education. Many points made in the book seemed to resonate with him except for my advocacy of YouTube videos in teaching. Like most faculty members, he was very reluctant to show the YouTube homepage to his class because an offensive video might be featured.
September 15 - A Modular Course Design Benefits Online Instructor and Students
By: Rob Kelly in Online Education
Andrea Henne, dean of online and distributed learning in the San Diego Community College District, recommends creating online courses composed of modules—discrete, self-contained learning experiences—and uses a course development method that specifies what to include in each module.
June 15 - Addressing the Unique Needs of Your Students
By: Mary Bart in Online Education
Why are you interested in improving your courses and instruction?
That was the question posed to attendees to kick off the online seminar Five Steps to Improve Your Online Courses and Instruction by presenter Dr. Patti Shank. Most of the respondents selected as their answers “to better support students” or “I hope this will reduce some of the hassles of teaching online.” A few of the more honest ones chose “I’m expected to do this” and a couple more came because they “need to address specific problems.”
May 4 - Online Assessment: Tips on Rubrics, Discussion Boards and Gradebooks
By: Mary Bart in Educational Assessment, Online Education
Even the most experienced educators can feel overwhelmed when they teach their first hybrid or fully online course. On top of dealing with the time and space constraints of asynchronous learning, there are so many different tools to learn. Tools, it seems, that all of their students either know how to use or master very quickly.
March 17 - Tips for Teaching Large Classes Online
By: Rob Kelly in Distance Learning Administration, Online Education, Trends in Higher Education
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 course design and management ideas.
September 24 - Choosing Appropriate Distance Learning Tools
By: Rob Kelly in Distance Learning Administration, Online Education
Faculty need to consider learning objectives, learning styles, accessibility, cost, and available technical support when designing distance learning courses, says Laurie Hillstock, manager of distance learning at Clemson University.
Hillstock works with faculty to develop satellite, CD-ROM, and Web-based courses using a design model that is roughly 80 percent asynchronous and 20 synchronous. Within this model, instructors can…
