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Making Connections with Afghanistan in Kent
We had Emily Campbell’s ESOL class join my class today to discuss Afghanistan. I had a serendipitous meeting that took all of four minutes in the copy room – I mentioned that my students were working on a paper about … Continue reading
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Tips for New Teachers?
I would not have made it in my first year as a teacher without the generosity and collegiality of the more experienced instructors I had the privilege of working with. I uses to begin each year with a posting on … Continue reading
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Open Education for a Better World
I am excited about this and have volunteered to be a course mentor. Whenever someone hears me talking about OER coming from the community rather than a publisher, this is what I mean: the University of Nova Gorica and UNESCO … Continue reading
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MOOCs, Student Success, and Instructional Design
One of the common problems with online learning and MOOCs is student success and retention. Traditionally, there is a large gap between the success and retention rates of face-to-face and online courses. Just as some students need help in understanding … Continue reading
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Tagged connectivism, elearning, instructional design, MOOCs, Open Pedagogy, retention, student success
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Online Learning Efficacy Research Database
One of the challenges with working with faculty new to online teaching and learning is helping them to understand that learning modality (online or off) is not a factor in student success. Oregon State University is meeting this challenge with … Continue reading
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Why Open Matters
For myself, “open” covers open pedagogy, open education resources, and open textbooks. I think open education is one of the most significant things to hit education in 500 years – probably since the invention or the wide-spread use of cheap … Continue reading
Betsy DeVos Cancels Solar Eclipse
I don’t know if you have gotten this letter yet. Seems a little strange to me but I guess that is where we are now: August 16, 2017 Dear Fellow Educator, I am writing this letter to announce that the … Continue reading
Course Rubrics: OEI
The first rubric I will look at in this first of a seven-part series looking at course evaluation rubrics is the California Community College’s Online Education Initiative rubric. Who wrote it? This rubric was created by the California Community College … Continue reading
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Tagged assessment, california community college, course development, elearning, evaluation, instructional design, OEI, qarubrics, rubrics
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Evaluating Online Courses: a prelude
This is the first of a seven part series examining how different institutions evaluate online courses. Each of the seven blog postings after this will feature a different rubric from a different institution for evaluating online courses. I am specifically … Continue reading
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Tagged assessment, elearning, evaluation, online learning, Open Pedagogy, qarubrics, rubrics
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CmapTools for iPad
I have used Cmap on nearly every computer I have owned or worked with. It is a very useful tool and, I think, very under-rated. I used to think it was difficult to work with until I had a conversation … Continue reading
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