DistEd 09, Distance Teaching and Learning annual conference Madison, WI
August 6th-7th
Key Note - Michael Moore, Penn State, History of Distance Ed
Challenging to stay engaged, see ppt, etc.
Presentation 1:
Ohio State
Multitasking during Chat
Discussion of minful/mindfulness dialect
No new Info
Some good resources on ppt
Was hoping to hear more about usefulness of milti-tasking, or chatting (back chatter) during lectures. Still looking.
Presentation 2:
Bowling Green State
Web 2.0
Wordpress, ePortfolio, Flickr, Twitter, etc.
Blackboard User
When choosing a platform
Management
Control
Transferability
Costs
Support
Hosting
Features
Wordpress is free code and software (see Amy) - could we integrate with D2L
Scaleable, customizable, large user group/community
Check out Blogs.BGSU.edu
http://blogs.bgsu.edu/secondlife/
http://blogs.bgsu.edu/cobl/
can pull in flickr streams rights into their blog, twitter streams, youtube, etc.
have a course amangement wordpress w/interactive live search(Sharon)
Pretty cool stuff....
Lunch
Richard Case, Western Governors, Utah
Checkout wgu.edu
and
Very similar thoughts
Met with Marc Perry
access to education
getting rid of large lecture
evaluating f2f and online
social networks
mobile tech
Check out from Sloan I -->
Concurrent Session 2
Best in Track The New Learning Communities
Thurs. 6/18 | 9:00-9:50am
Title: Implementing an Online Learning Model in a Social Media World
Presenter: Thomas Glover, Western Governors University; Sarah “Intellagirl” Robbins, Stacey Ludwig
tglover@wgu.edu
This presentation will look at what can happen when a social media platform is used to try to create university-wide learning communities where the dominate pedagogical model is that of more traditional online learning model characterized by structured courses delivered in a learning management system (LMS). We will share our original design of using a social media technology platform to run our voluntary learning communities and the modified traditional online learning model. Using this design, we tried to engage learners in our self-directed learning model by providing subject matter experts to facilitate the activities of the community, much like they would if we were using a traditional online learning model delivered in a LMS. A forensic analysis was completed after a year of operation so that we could try to determine what activities were actually happen in the communities and if these activities met our expectations. The findings of this analysis will be shared. Based on the findings of our analysis, we will discuss the conclusions we have drawn about the different pedagogical needs when a social media platform is used compared to a learning management system.
Presentation 3:
Payloff and Pratt
Elementary presentation,defined Web 2.0
Presentation 4:
U of Springfield
mobileteachingandlearning.blogspot.com
Reception: Lorna, Carol Tuner, Alan Wolf, Teemu Arina, ?Mad SL person, Karen Skibba
Dinner: Simone, Marc Perry,
Presentation 1:
Fred Snow, Drew Bagley
Compass
Benchmarking programs expenses,
5 year revenues and expenses
so not where I should be...
Interesting info for Deans or Provosts office
Presentation 2:
Penn State Online
Coordinating eLearning at the institutional level
weblearning.psu.edu
eLearning Cooperative (for general students)
World Campus, worldcampus.psu.edu (bringing in new people to the campus, adult learners)
Blended Learning Initiative
Emphasize collaboration and emphasize curricula consistency
Partnership between eLearning Cooperative and World campus
World Campus under President of Outreach
eLearning under VP of eLearning Cooperative
Steering committee connects them?
prezi.com
Visit weblearning.psu.edu
Penn state quality Assurance Standards
Determined by the steering committee
Taken to faculty senate
Faculty Self-Assessment: Prearing for Online Teaching
http://weblearning.psu.edu/facultyselfassessment/ (readiness)
Great idea!!
Online readiness tool for faculty
Presentation 3:
Virginia Tech, Peter Macedo
Student Center
State of work
work breakdown structure
documentation
timeline
stakeholder group
communication, email f2f meetings, phone calls
sharing materials, presentations, handouts, etc
easy to use
Purpose
Easy access to services and resources
aid in students' academic, professional and personal success (already have at online.uwm.edu)
vto.vt.edu
New to eLearning at VT?
Current Students?
Support
etc...
Attendants
Using Synchronous tools
What about -- Building community across the institution
Create a "New to eLearning at UWM?"
iddl.vt.edu
Institute for Distance and Distributed Learning at Virginia Tec
pmacedo@vt.edu
Made their own "Second Life" virtual student space
VT moving to Cass system next year (single sign on)
Presentation 4:
Northern Michigan
Grad Student Perceptions of Learning in a Virtual World
Carolyn Low, PhD
Associate professor of Science Education
Avatar -- Clowey Greenwood
Biome: NMU's Island of Biodiversity
Master of Science in Sscience education
exclusively online
8/12 return rate
Uses of Second Life
Discussion** primary use
Instructor presentations
Projects
Field Trips
Guest Speakers -- brought in great scientists to speak
Interactive activites
Uses text tools
6 people talk in a f2f
Text chat -- everyone talks
Places to visit
Physics -- see Exploritorium
Ohio Site -- Testis -- developing Sperm
Built networks
--head of medical school in london
--Science Friday streamed in Sl
Data was very superficial
--see her ppt
Need to check out her wiki
http://cloweygreenwood.pbworks.com
clowey@nmu.edu
From Twitter:
GREAT presentation on e-textbooks w/ comparison of diffe-readers 4 texts. Http://cite.nwmissouri.edu/presentations. (Gerry)
Video Sharing In The Online Classroom" presentation http://bit.ly/w04nO
Syracuse left Elluminate for Adobe Connect -- doing a lot with content delivery (Amy)
# Gubins & Muller #DistEd09 Competencies cont'd 5-managing assessments 6- Orienting students 7- Institutional knowledge 8- pedagogy/andragogy40 minutes ago from TweetDeck
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Gubins & Muller #DistEd09 Competencies identified 1-CMS 2-other tech skills (e.g. ppt) 3-Inst Design 4-social processes and presenceabout 1 hour ago from TweetDeck
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Gubins & Muller #DistEd09 - currently the Maryland 59% train in course development, 40% teaching online, 90+% CMS trainingabout 1 hour ago from TweetDeck
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Dubins & Muller competencies for online teaching- began with current offering, lit. review, and competencies of other programs #DistEd09
BGSU Blog
http://blogs.bgsu.edu/cobl/2009/07/24/us-department-of-education-study-reveals-advantages-of-online-and-blended-learning/
July 24, 2009
WASHINGTON — Online learning has definite advantages over face-to-face instruction when it comes to teaching and learning, according to a new meta-analysis released Friday by the U.S. Department of Education. The study found that students who took all or part of their instruction online performed better, on average, than those taking the same course th
