Comments for Online Learning Update http://people.uis.edu/rschr1/onlinelearning Online Learning News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor ~ University of Illinois at Springfield Fri, 25 Mar 2011 15:26:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 Comment on The future of distance online learning is calling by Marjorie Vai http://people.uis.edu/rschr1/onlinelearning/?p=2285&cpage=1#comment-27862 Marjorie Vai Fri, 25 Mar 2011 15:26:59 +0000 http://people.uis.edu/rschr1/onlinelearning/?p=2285#comment-27862 The examples of using audio and so basic here, yet they add so much to the online learning experience. One cannot underestimate the value of using a variety of communication forms on the web. These are elements that engage learners in exactly the right way. Nothing about them distracts. On the other hand, second life is not so simple. Is it really worth all the prep time just to learn how to use it? Would observing teaching on second life really be the best use of a teacher trainee's time given a basic standard for online that states that authenticity is critically important? Is teh teaching on second life worth observing? And then there is my personal gripe about second life- being a visual learner I find that needing to look at such strange, unattractive visual stimulation very distracting. I find it difficult to pay attention to what's being said and what's going on. As a friend and founding director of online at The New School likes to say: "It's not about technology, it's about learning." The first two examples here are about learning. The examples of using audio and so basic here, yet they add so much to the online learning experience. One cannot underestimate the value of using a variety of communication forms on the web. These are elements that engage learners in exactly the right way. Nothing about them distracts.

On the other hand, second life is not so simple. Is it really worth all the prep time just to learn how to use it? Would observing teaching on second life really be the best use of a teacher trainee’s time given a basic standard for online that states that authenticity is critically important? Is teh teaching on second life worth observing? And then there is my personal gripe about second life- being a visual learner I find that needing to look at such strange, unattractive visual stimulation very distracting. I find it difficult to pay attention to what’s being said and what’s going on.

As a friend and founding director of online at The New School likes to say: “It’s not about technology, it’s about learning.” The first two examples here are about learning.

]]> Comment on Got Online Learning Classes? Don’t Buy Textbooks – Rent Them Instead, Part II by Lorenzo Orlando Caum http://people.uis.edu/rschr1/onlinelearning/?p=1827&cpage=1#comment-27132 Lorenzo Orlando Caum Thu, 17 Mar 2011 19:59:26 +0000 http://people.uis.edu/rschr1/onlinelearning/?p=1827#comment-27132 With renting books for a semester, then there is no risk that the students are stuck with a book that they can’t sell back. - Lorenzo http://lorenzocaum.com With renting books for a semester, then there is no risk that the students are stuck with a book that they can’t sell back.

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]]> Comment on Blogging for class credit: Social Media for Journalists to be offered online in spring by Gary http://people.uis.edu/rschr1/onlinelearning/?p=1453&cpage=1#comment-26933 Gary Tue, 15 Mar 2011 00:13:00 +0000 http://people.uis.edu/rschr1/onlinelearning/?p=1453#comment-26933 Hopefully many other schools will begin following this same model. In many ways blogging is replacing the standard news outlets of old and the aspiring journalists need to have the tools that they will be using in their life after school. Hopefully many other schools will begin following this same model. In many ways blogging is replacing the standard news outlets of old and the aspiring journalists need to have the tools that they will be using in their life after school.

]]> Comment on Webinar | Performance To Go: Designing m-Learning | YouTube Video by RUSS MEADE http://people.uis.edu/rschr1/onlinelearning/?p=2159&cpage=1#comment-25545 RUSS MEADE Sat, 05 Mar 2011 10:40:45 +0000 http://people.uis.edu/rschr1/onlinelearning/?p=2159#comment-25545 Excellent Ray! As perhaps the newest member of NCLC just wanted to say hi and great work! Russ Excellent Ray!

As perhaps the newest member of NCLC just wanted to say hi and great work!

Russ

]]> Comment on Online Learning: More Professors Are Using Twitter—but Mostly Not for Teaching… yet by Naida Casselberry http://people.uis.edu/rschr1/onlinelearning/?p=1295&cpage=1#comment-20790 Naida Casselberry Tue, 25 Jan 2011 19:10:55 +0000 http://people.uis.edu/rschr1/onlinelearning/?p=1295#comment-20790 I do not even know how I ended up here, but I thought this post was good. I do not know who you are but certainly you are going to a famous blogger if you are not already ;) Cheers! I do not even know how I ended up here, but I thought this post was good. I do not know who you are but certainly you are going to a famous blogger if you are not already ;) Cheers!

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]]> Comment on Digital Learning Now by Blogging About Virtual Schools « Virtual School Meanderings http://people.uis.edu/rschr1/onlinelearning/?p=1744&cpage=1#comment-20028 Blogging About Virtual Schools « Virtual School Meanderings Wed, 19 Jan 2011 13:05:09 +0000 http://people.uis.edu/rschr1/onlinelearning/?p=1744#comment-20028 [...] Digital Learning Now from Online Learning Update [...] [...] Digital Learning Now from Online Learning Update [...]

]]> Comment on Digital Learning Now by Muvaffak Gozaydin http://people.uis.edu/rschr1/onlinelearning/?p=1744&cpage=1#comment-15499 Muvaffak Gozaydin Sun, 19 Dec 2010 21:32:24 +0000 http://people.uis.edu/rschr1/onlinelearning/?p=1744#comment-15499 Dear Tom : You can do all these with online. Turkey has done it for 16.000.000 K12 students. Free internet b roadband + free national curriculum contents for every subject + free computer ( thi,s is a bottle neck now. Only 1 netbook or computer per 10 students. ) Now we are after a one to one project. With new $ 200 10" netbooks we will provide all families with $ 8 per month installment for 36 months. Digital , that is online is the only way one can do everything in education for today. Tomorrow there will be a technology better than digital . Don't miss the boat . ONLINE is for America with its 60-65 million K12 students . + wonderful contents you have . SHARE your ONLINE contents with all Americans . Dear Tom :
You can do all these with online.
Turkey has done it for 16.000.000 K12 students.
Free internet b roadband + free national curriculum contents for every subject + free computer ( thi,s is a bottle neck now. Only 1 netbook or computer per 10 students. )
Now we are after a one to one project. With new $ 200 10″ netbooks we will provide all families with $ 8 per month installment for 36 months.
Digital , that is online is the only way one can do everything in education for today.
Tomorrow there will be a technology better than digital .
Don’t miss the boat .
ONLINE is for America with its 60-65 million K12 students . + wonderful contents you have . SHARE your ONLINE contents with all Americans .

]]> Comment on Harvard professor Paul Peterson talks education reform in Steamboat by Lanny Arvan http://people.uis.edu/rschr1/onlinelearning/?p=947&cpage=1#comment-3565 Lanny Arvan Fri, 20 Aug 2010 16:20:43 +0000 http://people.uis.edu/rschr1/onlinelearning/?p=947#comment-3565 It seems to me a lot of folks confuse the textbook (or current day equivalent) with the course. I could see eTexts having the type of multimedia mentioned here though, ironically, textbook publishers don't seem to be going in that direction much. In some cases with really great materials perhaps student self-teaching will be sufficient. But otherwise, we still need a course and coaching from the instructor and peers. It seems to me a lot of folks confuse the textbook (or current day equivalent) with the course. I could see eTexts having the type of multimedia mentioned here though, ironically, textbook publishers don’t seem to be going in that direction much. In some cases with really great materials perhaps student self-teaching will be sufficient. But otherwise, we still need a course and coaching from the instructor and peers.

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