Note: I will use this space over the next month to share excerpts from my dissertation The Evolution & Impact of the Massive Open Online Course. The research was a Delphi study bringing together 20 MOOC experts to discuss the MOOC in educational, political, and sociocultural terms (slides from the oral presentation can be seen here).…
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Loading...In 2013, Academic Partnerships published A Guide to Quality in Online Learning. Neil Butcher and Merridy Wilson-Strydom co-authored the text, and we served as editors. That document focused on formal online courses and programmed leading to certification. Reaction to the guide from around the world was very positive, but, because it appeared at a time of intense press coverage of massive open online courses (MOOCs), some readers asked if we could prepare another document that would explore quality issues in less formal types of online learning.
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...We have published a pioneering primer on the key quality issues in online education. Edited by international higher education authorities Stamenka Uvalić-Trumbić and Sir John Daniel and authored by learning experts Neil Butcher and Merridy Wilson-Strydom, A Guide to Quality in Online Learning is designed to provide insight into opportunities presented by online learning and is available to readers free of charge.
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I’ve been following a Chicago Tribune series titled “A New Plan of Chicago” since last October when it was launched. Sunday’s article focuses on improving the lives of disadvantaged Chicagoans. I encourage you to read it and other articles in this series and engage people in your own family, business and faith network in this process.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...In this podcast episode I discuss the ideas of using a persistent hangout chat as an educational bat signal
How are you creating educational bat signals throughout your learning environment?
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(No Ratings Yet)Loading...This is a really nice chrome extension for creating visual, but simple, stories. I’m excited that this can work offline as well. Also, there is a cat on their App page, so there is that.
Chrome Web Store – My Story Editor
…Did you ever wish you could tell a simple, interactive and illustrated Story?
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Created with Haiku Deck, the free presentation app
Resilience. For yourself. For your students.
My friend Susan Spellman-Cann created the HaikuDeck and a blogpost, “Bent But Not Broken” to guide us in resilience.
She says, ” We need to see students as they should be and help them to see what they are capable of becoming.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...While this is a very specific purpose, I am interested in the idea of using email to create content. Just think about a filter in gmail that could push to an rss feed. This means, any time someone (or some service) sent an email on a given topic, it could be available to anyone who could subscribe to the feed.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Recently, I have found the need to lower the barrier to entry for people to use twitter, construct tweets, and learn how to create a social conversation with one another. I know that other folks have done this, so I went a searching and this is what I found:
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