Posts Tagged ‘online learning environment’
January 17 - Transformative Learning: Four Activities that Set the Stage
By: Joyce Henderson, EdD in Online Education
It’s thrilling when I, as an educator, witness a student’s transformation from a limiting perspective to one that is broader, more inclusive, and most times empowering and inspiring. I can see that the change in their ways of thinking opens their mind to new possibilities about their lives and their worlds. The recognized precursors for
April 27 - How to Enhance Online Student Engagement and Satisfaction
By: Mary Bart in Online Education
Most online courses rely heavily on text-based communication, but given the vast array of audio and video tools now available to instructors and students alike, it’s never been easier to enhance the media richness of the online classroom. However, just like with home improvement, you have to select the right tool for the job.
November 8 - Solving the Problem of Online Problem Solving
By: Ellen Smyth in Effective Teaching Strategies
When first visualizing an online mathematics course, I saw a barren, text-only environment where students learned primarily from the textbook and where instructors provided text-based direction, clarification, and assistance. But typing is not teaching and reading is not learning. Students deserve more from online courses than regurgitated textbooks and opportunities to teach themselves. With today’s technology, we can create a rich learning environment.
October 22 - Online Courses: Step-by-Step
By: Mary Bart in Online Courses
This three-part online course provides an in-depth, yet straightforward explanation of online teaching’s essentials. You’ll gain valuable insight into the pedagogy of online teaching, the tools and technology at your disposal in the online classroom, and how to get your courses up and running efficiently and painlessly!
August 9 - Digital Storytelling Brings a Human Connection to Online Education
By: Deborah A. Raines, PhD in Instructional Design
Once upon a time people told stories to share experiences and to teach. With the growing popularity of distance learning modalities educator have been searching for ways to enhance social presence and reflective thinking in the online learning experience. The use of digital storytelling might be a strategy to bring human thought and emotion into online education.
August 5 - Providing Multiple Paths for Learning
By: Rob Kelly in Online Education
Students come to an online course with different interests, prior knowledge, and preferred learning styles. This is something that Stephen Holland, chair of the English department at Muscatine Community College and online learning and training associate at the Eastern Iowa Community College District, takes into account whenever he creates or seeks to improve an online course.
February 5 - For a Successful Online Teaching and Learning Experience: Communicate
By: Lawrence Ragan, PhD. in Distance Learning Administration
Regardless of the size of course enrollments, the key to a successful teaching and learning experience for both the learner and instructor is communication. Clearly defining and communicating the expectations will address the uncertainly of what role and responsibility is required of each participant.
August 7 - 11 Strategies for Managing Your Online Courses
By: Mary Bart in Free Reports, Online Education
If you think the flexibility of online teaching also means that it’s OK to “wing it” now and then, you’d be wrong. If anything, you have to be more organized, more consistent and more prepared for anything than ever before.
July 24 - Online Design: Reaching Students Eight Different Ways
By: Rob Kelly in Online Education
The online learning environment offers great potential for individualized learning. One way to achieve this is through adaptive hypermedia—using learner use patterns to adapt course presentation, navigation, and content to suit individual students’ needs and preferences.
June 29 - Student Engagement Strategies for the Online Classroom
By: Rob Kelly in Online Education
Cognitive engagement is important to student success in any learning environment. However, cognitive engagement takes on more significance in the online learning environment, where students learn in a physically isolated environment and often lack elements that typically engage students in the face-to-face classroom.
