This from a recent exchange in the Kirkwood Community College open online course on ‘Teaching Online: Reflections on Practice’
Janet’s Question:
As an instructor, I have a question about instructional designers. How does one become an ‘instructional designer’ and what are the qualifications for employment?…
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From a recent discussion on the Canvas hosted course ‘Teaching Online: Reflections on Practice’
Discuss the implications for deadlines and due date structuring in your online classes. How do you plan to keep your students on track throughout your course? What sort of due date/deadline structure will work best for you and your students?…
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You would think I had taken enough xMoocs or cMoocs in the past 2 years, but in my non- teaching semester this winter, I have added one more to the mix: Teaching Online: Reflections on Practice, a free open course offered on the Canvas Network by Kirkwood Community College in Cedar Rapids,Iowa.…
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These are some of my ramblings on various lively discussion board forums while engaged in Duke University’s xMOOC entitled “The History and Future of (Mostly) Higher Education” led by Dr. Cathy Davidson, co-founder of Hastac. I did not take the weekly quizzes which many participants were acing without watching the video lectures and where most of the right answers were choice (d) all of the above.…
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The Future of Higher Education and Community: The Role of Faculty*
Let’s see if I can combine several ideas in this blog post as I engage in several ‘c’ and ‘x’ Moocs* during my non-teaching semester. Dave Cormier invites us to consider community as curriculum in the P2PU course “Rhizomatic Learning” and Dr.…
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The prompt this last week in Dave Cormier’s P2PU #rhizo14 ‘course’ was to consider the question “Is books making us stupid?”. This video is my response. And here is the Google + conversation which ensued.
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Wow, it’s been two months since I last posted. I’ve had many thoughts, experiences and learnings, but time seems to tick away. Time? It’s a challenged for me as I always try to strieve a balance between my vocational duties and personal interests and priorities.…
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Jeff Merrel and Kimberley Scott of Northwestern University have extended their 5 week PLN seminar, by offering a Google Plus Community called “Learning and Change”. There are already some very significant discussions occurring in this community. I am posting one example here on my blog site because it ties into some of my own thinking about change management.…
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The PLN Pitch
A personal learning network for higher education
*Here is my own final learning artifact for Northwestern University’s Seminar Exploring Personal Learning Networks
*And my collaborative final learning artifact for Northwestern University’s Seminar Exploring Personal Learning Networks
*Useful information here: Exploring PLNs Collaboration Tools
At the end of the the five week online seminar, we were given a case to consider….…
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