Sue Beckingham’s #blideo challenge accepted! It seems that Steve Wheeler has come up with another way to get us all blogging about education. The call to action is to view the video and write a response to the video that connects it to education in some way. I will then have to select a new…
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The #HumanMOOC at #eMOOCs2015
Pecha Kucha format for eMOOCs conference talk yesterday in Mons, Belgium: Slide 1: It is my pleasure to share with you the design intent and iteration of the HumanMOOC. This course developed community while exploring the Community of Inquiry. The redesign included a competency based, badges first approach leveraging social media and asynchronous video. Slide…
Synchronous vs Asynchronous Debate
On Sunday, March 22nd, I was joined by two brilliant ladies, Dr. Maha Bali and Dr. Peggy Semingson in a #HumanMOOC Google Hangout. We discussed the affordances and limitations of technology specifically synchronous and asynchronous communications in online courses. Dr. Semingson makes some good points about the personal attention that can be given to an…
Voice and Video tools – which one do you prefer?
This week in the #HumanMOOC the community shared their thoughts on how to enhance Instructor Presence using three different tools. They used the video recording functionality in Canvas to record an instructor introduction video and gather feedback from their peers, then we took to the web to utilize VoiceThread and FlipGrid. The VoiceThread below contains…
Dr. Phil Ice talks about the Community of Inquiry
In this interview of Dr. Phil Ice, we talk about what drew him into researching the Community of Inquiry in the first place. He explains how retention is tied back to social presence in online learning and explains how important teaching presence (or instructor presence) is at the start of a course. He discusses how important…
Bring your Own Device 4 Learning
Next week a truly open learning experience will take place online and I’m honored to be a facilitator. Bring your own device for learning is a collaborative open event that kicks off with a Twitter chat on Sunday at 2pm Central and 8pm Central using both #txeduchat and #byod4lchat hashtags. The week of January 12-16 there…
a look inside Motivis Learning’s competency based platform
Competency based education (CBE) is not new but the interest in CBE has been supercharged lately. Karen Ford at the University of Maryland University College (UMUC) has published a very helpful literature review on the topic: Competency-Based Education History, Opportunities, and Challenges and dates early models of competency-based learning back to the 1920’s and 1930’s as mastery learning…
Strategies for Providing Feedback in Online Courses
The video below is from The Center Moderator Michelle Pacansky-Brock discusses the power of the human voice (depth, warmth, and intonation) with two faculty who give feedback to their own students using video and voice. They share their own processes for giving feedback in this manner. Hangout Archive from: The Center Use Audio and Video Feedback.…
Asynchronous or Synchronous? Which do you prefer?
The battle between synchronous and “A”synchronous communication tools This poll is closed, but you can see the results of a quick twitter poll on the use of synchronous sessions in online courses here: http://twtpoll.com/brv493cq58em9jx When I consider my experiences as a student, I much prefer asynchronous communication tools. This is not because I am an…