Dear Colleague, Sue Beckingham and I would like to invite you to consider submitting an expression of interest to the ‘Influence of Social Media on Online Education” stream within the International Journal on Innovations in Online Education (IJIOE) http://onlineinnovationsjournal.com/. Our plan for this stream is to feature innovative ways that social media is being used in…
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Another #HumanMOOC starts 11/14/16
On November 14th the course Humanizing Online Instruction: #HumanMOOC will begin again. I’m delighted to be working with Maha Al-Freih, Patrice Torcivia Prusko, and Matt Crosslin again on the course. This time we will be utilizing a new social learning discussion and curation tool called YellowDig and hope to gain some valuable insights into the…
The web: network, dreamcatcher, patterns #blimage
Before I share my response to the #blimage gauntlet that was thrown down by Sue Buckingham while I was sleeping last night, what the heck is #blimage? It seems that #blimage began with Steve Wheeler, Simon Enzor, and Amy Burvall on Twitter. A blog image? When thinking about ways to motivate people to blog, this…
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…
Excerpt from: Course iteration as a reflective process
MOOC iteration as a reflective process: HumanMOOC In 2012, xMOOCs rose from the laboratories of computer scientists who brought a machine learning approach to education. These xMOOCs or instructivist MOOCs were best know for their re-creation of the lecture as video, computer graded assessments and very little to no interaction with the professor. While technology…
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…
Bill and Melinda Gates Panel: Improving Teaching and Learning Now
Session Notes: The session began with a e-Literate-TV: regarding Developmental Math (to be released soon on e-LiterateTV) http://schedule.sxswedu.com/events/event_EDUP991240 The session is implementation focused Daniel Patrick Moynihan regarding education and systems thinking in 1971: This is not a simple input-output system. Jen McGrath: Rio Salado: Systems approach – we communicate well and include many people in the…
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…
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.…