Check out “‘You Can Do it in your Jammies’ and Other Things We Should Never Say About Learning Online” a new chapter from The CU Online Handbook.
Read other chapters from the Handbook online.
Here is an interesting series of infographics on the Higher Education Bubble with a corresponding video.
Click the image below to check them out:
Check out some of these articles!
The top ten EDUCAUSE Review articles from 2011.
| 1. Top-Ten IT Issues BRET L. INGERMAN, CATHERINE YANG, AND THE 2011 EDUCAUSE CURRENT ISSUES COMMITTEE |
| 2. The Changing Landscape of Higher Education DAVID J. STALEY AND DENNIS A. TRINKLE |
| 3. “This Game Sucks”: How to Improve the Gamification of Education SARAH “INTELLAGIRL” SMITH-ROBBINS |
| 4. Mobile Literacy DAVID PARRY |
| 5. Second Life Is Dead, Long Live Second Life? DANIEL LIVINGSTONE |
| 6. Why Mobile? MARY ANN GAWELEK, MARY SPATARO, AND PHIL KOMARNY |
| 7. The Need for Student Social Media Policies REYNOL JUNCO |
| 8. Prospects for Systemic Change across Academic Libraries JAMES G. NEAL |
| 9. Leading the Higher Education IT Organization: Six Building Blocks of Success STEPHEN J. LASTER |
| 10. Technical Skills No Longer Matter TIMOTHY M. CHESTER |
Check out these articles by Patti Shank on instructional design and instructional development!
Visit Learning Solutions or read below.
Krish, Maros, and Stapa just published a study titled “Sociocultural Factors And Social Presence In An Online Learning Environment” in GEMA Online Journal of Language Studies.
The abstract reads:
In a computer supported learning environment both in the synchronous and asynchronous
mode, interaction is a prerequisite to facilitate learning. Hence to facilitate effective
interaction, a good working team of learners and instructors is important. For this to
happen, social presence is necessary to create sound social interaction for instructional
effectiveness. Social presence is the ability of the instructors and learners to project their
physical and emotional presence (Mardziah H. Abdullah (2004). However, the level of
social presence in a virtual learning environment depends on the students’ and
instructors’ sociocultural background. The sociocultural theory in language learning itself
emphasizes the roles of interpersonal interaction rather than intrapersonal interaction.
This article discusses some findings of a study on a computer supported collaborative
learning environment. It shows how distance learners at an institution of higher learning
in Malaysia responded to a questionnaire on the issues of social presence. The postings in
the learner management system (LMS) and data from focus-group interviews were also
analysed and discussed. The findings share some positive responses towards social
presence in a virtual learning environment and calls for a more in-depth inquiry that will
contribute to the literature on online collaborative learning in the Malaysian context.
The article can be accessed at: http://www.ukm.my/ppbl/Gema/GEMA%20vol%2012%20(1)%202012/pp_201_213.pdf
Here is a great infographic on world religions. (Before getting into the field of instructional design and technology I studied religion).
Each year I read the Sloan-C report on online learning. This year they have included a nice infographic summarizing the results.
Here are the slides for the presentation Joni and I are doing on student stories.
