students unfamiliar with ALCs and active learning practices may even resist them.88 To succeed in adopting and implementing these practices, an institution’s teaching culture must evolve.89
Preparing students to leave their comfort zones is such an important part of teaching!
However, learning space design alone does not guarantee better learning outcomes.
Probably, nothing ALONE guarantees better learning outcomes, right?
learning space de-sign can impact learner engagement. T
This makes me wonder: As an online educator, what advice can I give my students about creating their learning spaces?
According to widespread research and several meta- analyses, active learning is the most effective mode for learning.75
For adults, too, I think.
mployers are increasingly seeking what is called the “T-shaped” graduate: the combination of deep vertical knowledge in a particular domain with a broad set of horizontal soft skills such as teamwork, communications, facility with data and technology, an appreciation of diverse cultures, and advanced literacy skills.60
I love this concept -- "T-shaped graduate." I'd never heard that term before, but see how true this statement about what employers are seeking is.
This study found that while awareness and adoption of OER remains low among faculty in higher education, both show significant year-to-year increases.
Significant increases year to year is a good thing.
Further, a smaller percentage of students dropped courses using OER compared to those using traditional textbooks, and a greater percentage achieved a grade of C or better in both face-to-face and online courses.
Very interesting. And important!
It is unlikely that ACTA will pass, however, as it has been unsuccessfully introduced to two previous Congresses
So even textbook companies have a powerful lobby? Sheesh! We REALLY need to get the money out of our US politics!
OER are made available under open licenses, such as those from Creative Commons,28 to ensure that they provide the “5R” legal permissions to users: the rights to retain, reuse, revise, remix, and redistribute the content.
This is so important for providing education to anyone who wants it.
ER became an issue on the world political stage in 2012 with the adoption of the Paris OER Declaration,26 which explicitly linked OER to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which states that “Everyone has the right to education.”
Interesting! Even though I knew about MIT, I didn't know this.
Why do our students need to muck around in the code?
This is definitely something I wish I could do!
UMW students in ds106 come away with an understanding that there is absolutely nothing standardized about their experience. (They’re also usually really exhausted by the end of the course and probably hate us just a little.)
Even in my experience in a digital storytelling course at the U of Colorado (which made many references to ds106), there seemed to be nothing standardized about the experience. I had never been in a class with such lack of formal "structure" as far as our assignmetns went. Yes, it was liberating, but it was also very uncomfortable -- and exhausting. Would it be something I would grow into if all my classes were like it? I just don't know.
clients will continue to invest in eLearning when it results in the desired learner performance outcome.
And this IS very important in my world....
the designer ultimately cares about the end-user and wants to create something useful and helpful and that really will solve that problem.”
Yes -- all communication (including training) can only be judged as truly successful by the receiver, not the sender.
passion for learning, along with their writing, researching, and communication skills
Well no WONDER this has been my chosen profession for so many years. LOL
online privacy
My only "privacy" concern is that I DO already have a couple professional websites out there for my training business -- I want to keep a "Michelle Poley" google search as focused on that business as I can. INTE 5665 last semester taught me that there are only a few social sites I intend to use in the business. (Twitter, Mighty Networks...)
NOT artistic ability
Thank you? (-;