Posts Tagged ‘Educating Online’
February 8 - A Checklist for Facilitating Online Courses
By: Mary Bart in Distance Learning Administration, Online Education
There are two common assumptions about teaching online that can sink even the most well-meaning neophyte. One is that “teaching is teaching” regardless of whether it’s face-to-face or online and there’s no reason to deviate from the proven principles that work so well in the traditional classroom. The second assumption is that teaching online is all about the technology, and if you design your course properly, it pretty much runs itself.
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.
August 11 - Creating Trust in Online Education
By: Rob Kelly in Articles, Online Education
In order to have a productive learning environment, the instructor needs to develop and maintain a sense of trust between and among the students and the instructor through good course design and facilitation, says Nancy Coppola, associate professor of humanities at New Jersey Institute of Technology. In a study that looked at developing trust in
August 9 - Project-Based Learning: A Natural Fit with Online Education
By: Rob Kelly in Articles, Online Education
The Buck Institute for Education’s definition of project-based learning-”a systematic teaching method that engages students in learning knowledge and skills acquired through an extended inquiry process structured around complex, authentic questions and carefully designed projects and tasks”-shares many of the same tenets as online learning. However, little has been written about the links between the
August 8 - Online Education: Questions Every Faculty Member Should Ask
By: Carol Bormann Young in Articles, Online Education
If we had been asked if we were prepared to teach online before teaching our first online courses, the answer would have been a naïve “Yes.” We had attended several training sessions and thought that we were ready! In retrospect, after teaching more than 30 sections of online courses over the past five years, we
August 7 - Aligning Students’ Expectations With Realities of Online Education
By: Rob Kelly in Articles, Online Education
Students’ perceptions of what an online course will be like are often quite different from how it really is. That is why Jim McKeown, assistant professor of computer science at Dakota State University, makes it a point to clearly articulate what he expects in his online courses. He also makes it a point to build
August 6 - Translating On-Ground Courses into Effective Online Education
By: Sherion Jackson in Articles, Online Education
Creating a Web-based course from a current, successful on-ground course is difficult and, at best, can be considered a translation process. In the past, instructors have created Web-based courses by taking those courses that were being taught on-ground and posting the information online, then calling these courses “Web-based.” Imitating a sound, successful on-ground course will
