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eLearning challenges: Developing and Encouraging
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Thursday, October 15, 2009. Distance Education Report magazine's June 2005 edition provides a succinct, cogent article on developing online teaching skills. The central figure to this article is Charles R. Harris, a former instructional developer at Troy University (formerly Troy State University). According to Harris, effective development will hopefully encourage experimentation which should lead to greater online teaching/learning experiences (Harris, 2005). Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). This bl...
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eLearning challenges: Growth is coming
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Friday, October 2, 2009. The US Department of Education released its report titled "Projections of Education Statistics to 2018" last month (September 2009). This report provides projections for. The focus of this post is the report's projections for post-secondary education. College enrollment is expected to increase 13.6% to 20.6 million students. Expect this growth to equate to an increase of "9% for students who are 18 to 24 years old; 25% for students who are 25 to 34. This report states from the ou...
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eLearning challenges: October 2009
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Tuesday, October 20, 2009. What makes faculty teach online? What motivates instructors to step outside their comfort zone and try a differnt course delivey? Are there factors that would inhibit or de-motivate faculty from instucting online? Qualitative research at a medium sized Eastern U.S. university in the Spring of 2006 revealed that certain common motivators exist to promote as well as inhibit faculty desire to teach online. Interestingly enough, very few faculty considered technical skill to be a f...
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eLearning challenges: Are we there yet?
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Wednesday, October 14, 2009. Are we there yet? The higher education survey consisted of 42 questions on the future of online learning in higher education. The workplace survey consisted of 49 questions regarding the current status and future directions of e-learning in workplace learning settings (Bonk and Kim, 2005). So how did these prognosticators do? Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). This blog's initial purpose was to examine how technically competent online instructors need to be and that focus wi...
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eLearning challenges: Social Presence & e-Learning
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Friday, October 9, 2009. Social Presence and e-Learning. I discovered a new 'social' word this week- social presence. As best I can tell, social presence is a nice blend of socialization (recognizing, adopting, learning, embracing a culture's values, attitudes, dos/don'ts) and presence (in this context, the level of participation in the virtual world) and according to an article by Mirah J. Dow, is a predictor of "satisfication with online learning" (Dow, 2008). Regarding ease of use of media tool, Dow s...
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eLearning challenges: "How" is as important as "What"
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Thursday, October 1, 2009. How" is as important as "What". How you teach may be almost important as what you teach, especially with respect to technical competence. Pedagogy drives design, delivery, and evaluation of any instruction, but e-learning requires the content delivery occur via technology. The instructor’s ability to use technology may enhance or hinder delivery and/or learning. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). This blog's initial purpose was to examine how technically competent online instr...
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eLearning challenges: Home grown
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Sunday, October 4, 2009. The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), the data compiling-massaging-distributing arm of the US Department of Education, released a report in December 2008 titled "Distance Education at Degree-Granting Postsecondary Institutions: 2006–07." This report is a comprehensive collection of responses to distance education questions posed to the almost 4200 Title IV degree-producing post-secondar institutions in the US. 66% offered online or blended courses. This blog's init...
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eLearning challenges: Digital Immigrants
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Sunday, October 18, 2009. Here's the link to where you can either read the abstract or purchase Kennedy's article in Information Today: http:/ tinyurl.com/ykw97ul. If you don't choose to buy the article, here's a link to a site she references that provides robust social networking demographics and data- I recommend bookmarking this one: http:/ www.web-strategist.com/blog/2009/01/11/a-collection-of-soical-network-stats-for-2009/. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Select a Podcast from the playlist.
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eLearning challenges: September 2009
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Wednesday, September 30, 2009. How responsive is your information technology (IT) department? Are your IT questions, suggestions, or comments treated professionally? Do you view your IT staff as part of the solution or problem? The answers to these questions may have an impact on how well technology is used to maximize e-learning. IT staffs have an important role in the e-learning environment. Most IT staffs accomplish their missions with little fanfare and probably less visibility (unless, of course...
