Below are blog posts of interest collected from http://sloanconsortium.org/SloancMemberBlogs
Orienting Students to Collaborative Learning
Both students and teachers struggle with successful online collaborative learning activities. MacGregor (1990) identifies seven role transitions students need to make to be effective when collaborating. These transitions are detailed below. The key takeaway for faculty lies in recognizing these new roles and providing opportunities for students to achieve mastery in these new roles.
Engaging Students in Online/Hybrid Courses with MERLOT
Back in 1998, I was involved in helping to put together an online web MBA program that was to be offered by five regional Georgia institutions collaboratively. Once we decided which courses needed to be taught, I was then asked to develop the International Business class for that program.
We received some training, first on how to work with WebCT, and then worked in a short online class about teaching online so we could see what the students experienced. Then it was time to put the class together.
We were given one of the early books by Rena Palloff and Keith Pratt. I can’t remember the title, but even after all this time, I remember something they pointed out. They suggested that in online teaching one must provide the following interactions with the student...
Leadership in Online Education
As online education continues to grow there will certainly be many opportunities for individuals to get involved in leadership positions. These leadership positions might become available at the institutional level and could include serving on a curriculum committee, on a faculty senate committee, being a department chair or unit dean, or even leading efforts for a new academic or strategic plan, in which online education is an important component.
What is "Impact Assessment" Anyway?
Impact assessment can be hard to grasp at first because it is subtle. So when we describe impact assessment as "a form of learning-centered assessment which engages learners by supporting their capacity to value, reflect on, and make meaning from their learning," there are some of the subtle distinctions in play.
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