Technology
Should you "friend" your students?
Well, Magna Pubs has their expert, who gives a qualified yes (see link below). My opinion? I would not advise it. I suppose if you set up a separate profile […]
Teaching & Learning 2.0
New Dept of Ed Study of Online Ed
From the Abstract of the report, found at: http://www.ed.gov/rschstat/eval/tech/evidence-based-practices/finalreport.pdf “The meta-analysis found that, on average, students in online learning conditions performed better than those receiving face-to-face instruction. The difference between […]
Black Swan? From John Sener
Does A(H1N1) = A Black Swan for OL? Submitted by John Sener on Fri, 2009-05-01 17:04. Evolution of Online Education Cases increasing, campuses closing; the prospect of a far worse […]
How Americans Spend Their Time
If you open the link at the end of this post, you can view the graphic for the age group 15-24 (as well as other demographics), and then slide along […]
Students' proficiency in Office applications
This study is worth a read – the results indicate that their sample of 171 students self-stated as having intermediate to high computer skills, were less proficient than they thought […]
Hype Cycle Redux
Here is a cleaner version of the Gartner Hype Cycle. It’s a helpful model for understanding which technologies have made it into broad, mainstream use and therefore should be considered […]
Best Practices – Academic Integrity
This paper says it’s about online academic integrity, but many of the suggestions cover on-campus classes as well – very useful, definitely some unique approaches — http://wiche.edu/attachment_library/Student_Authentication/BestPractices.pdf
Teens Don't Tweet
This may not seem like a very relevant post, but the study basically focuses attention on the fact that the major mode of under-25 communication online is texting or facebook. […]