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Quality Matters Monday: Standard 2.2

QMIt’s Quality Matters Monday! Each Monday, we will highlight a Quality Matters standard and review its importance in an online course and how we evaluate this standard.

Today, we are reviewing Quality Matters Standard 2.2.

General Standard 2 addresses the necessary components that make up quality learning objectives or competencies, which establish a foundation upon which the rest of the course is based.

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Teaching on WordPress: Introduction

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Hello,

Here is my short bio for a long post secondary teaching career. I have joined this open, online workshop to learn more about using WordPress for my courses in conjunction with the university LMS.

Bio.

English faculty member at Kwantlen Polytechnic University since 1996, previously at UBC for 2 years and Thompson Rivers University for 6 years.…

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Alan Levine, #etmooc, and the cMOOC That Would Not Die

We can cut off its head, fill its mouth with garlic, and drive a stake through its body, but we apparently can’t kill a well-designed, engaging, dynamic learning experience and the community of learning it spawns. Nor would we want to.…

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Faculty Spotlight: Spring 2015 Faculty Research Grant Recipients, Part 1

We are going to spend the next few weeks spotlighting the recipients of the Spring 2015 faculty Research grants. Get to know these distinguished faculty members below!

Dr. Nancy Ahern

Dr. Nancy Ahern

Names: Dr. Nancy Ahern, Dr. R. Susan Crawford, & Dr. C.

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7 Top Tips for Effective eLearning Voice Overs

eLearning_IndustryGiving your eLearning course a voice offers a wide range of advantages, including a boost in user engagement and knowledge retention. However, these benefits can only be achieved if your voice over is carefully created and offer real value to the overall eLearning experience.

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How Does rhizoANT Work?

In my previous post, I summarized Farzana Dudhwala’s article What is Actor-Network Theory?, but I didn’t really explore what it might mean for the rhizo14 collaborative autoethnography (CAE). I want to do that here.

I start with Dudhwala’s first observation that for ANT, the social is a network of relations and “does not exist as an objective reality prior to the research having even begun” (3).…

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How Does rhizoANT Work?

In my previous post, I summarized Farzana Dudhwala’s article What is Actor-Network Theory?, but I didn’t really explore what it might mean for the rhizo14 collaborative autoethnography (CAE). I want to do that here.I start with Dudhwala’s first observation that for ANT, the social is a network of relations and “does not exist as an objective reality prior to the research having even begun” (3).…

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Academic Partnerships Announces Spring 2015 Research Grant Recipients

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Seven Faculty Research Projects from Five Universities to Study the Impact and Effectiveness of Online Learning

DALLAS (May 22, 2015) – Academic Partnerships (AP), one of the world’s largest representatives of online learning, today announced that it has awarded seven grants to researchers from five universities to study the impact and effectiveness of online learning.

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syndicating 5358 posts from 517 #etmooc blogs