Posts Tagged ‘online student learning’
April 4 - Measuring Educational Experience Using the Community of Inquiry Framework
By: Mary Bart in Online Education
End-of-course evaluations, conducted properly, can serve as valuable tools for improving online programs, but they’re not without their drawbacks.
“One of the problems is current students benefit little from the end-of-course surveys,” said Phil Ice, EdD, associate vice president of research and development at American Public University System. “Whenever you’re measuring what the student thinks of the course or their perceived learning, instructor performance, the way assets are utilized, you’re capturing that information retrospectively. So you’re not really helping the students who are engaged right now.”
September 20 - How to Design Effective Online Group Work Activities
By: Mary Bart in Online Education
There are many reasons why students don’t like group work, and in the online classroom the list of reasons grows even longer as the asynchronous nature of online courses not only makes collaboration more difficult but almost counterintuitive.
July 27 - Ten Factors that Determine Online Student Success at Community Colleges
By: Christopher Hill in Distance Learning Administration
Community colleges are especially prone to problems with student completion of courses and retention of the students to graduation. To assist these institutions in addressing problems of persistence among online students, Robert Knipe, dean of learning technologies at Genesee Community College, undertook a study with area colleagues to learn what factors are most critical in predicting success, with an eye to understanding which factors are in the college’s control and which may predict a student at risk for failing to persist.
July 15 - Student Performance and Satisfaction: Online vs. Face to Face
By: Maryellen Weimer, PhD in Online Education
Many faculty have questions about the relative merits of online courses versus the traditional face-to-face classroom experiences. Researchers also have an interest in the question, and a variety of studies have been conducted with the usual mixed results but overall accumulating evidence that online courses can provide rich learning experiences. But for many faculty, it is still an open and individual question. Many would like to have the opportunity Kathleen Dolan describes.
June 25 - Five Quick Tips for Using Streaming Media in Your Blended or Online Courses
By: Jerry Kapus, PhD in Asynchronous Learning and Trends
If you are thinking of adding streamed audio and/or video presentations to your blended or online course, here are some things to consider.
May 7 - Using Web 2.0 to Enhance Classes and Improve Retention
By: Mary Bart in Online Seminars
If you’re not using Web 2.0 tools in your classes, you’re missing out … and so are your students. This seminar will improve your understanding of Web 2.0 tools and show you how they can be integrated into your online course. The good news is these tools are much easier use than you might expect.
Todd Conaway is an instructional designer at Yavapai College in Prescott, Ariz. During his career, he has developed innovative presentations and workshops that reflect the need for a deeper instructor presence in online courses, and he has been a frequent presenter at conferences in sharing his passion for communication and knowledge of Web 2.0 and content management systems.