http://onlinesapiens.com/blog Mon, 30 Jun 2008 22:43:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Yes, both corporate trainers and professors absolutely have to address the implications and opportunities of Web 2.0 But the contexts and cultures of corporate training and higher education are so vastly different. Tom Werner posted some ways they differ. http://onlinesapiens.com/blog/2008/06/06/differences-between-corporate-training-and-college-education/ This review looks at a number of key factors important to growing successful online learning communities and provides some relevant strategies for this. Source: Futurelab http://onlinesapiens.com/blog/2008/06/05/growing-successful-online-learning-communities/ Community building in online distance education is important to a successful learning experience because it alleviates feelings of isolation for both students and faculty members. Ruth E. Brown describes the process by which students become part of an online distance education community, identifying three stages: “making friends,” “community conferment,” ... http://onlinesapiens.com/blog/2008/06/05/community-building-in-online-distance-education/ Blogs and podcasts are making their way into traditional college classrooms, changing the way students learn and professors teach. Learning becomes more interactive and can take place in the middle of the night. Professors said the new learning modes improve their ability to communicate with students and foster more interaction among ... http://onlinesapiens.com/blog/2008/06/01/blogs-and-podcasts-are-making-their-way-into-traditional-college-classrooms/ Random Mind attended a round table given by Bret Nelson of San Jacinto College at the 2007 Conference on Information Technology, on making a smooth transition to online teaching. Her post seems to have captured the essence of the round table. Topics included: - On the difference between teaching online and ... http://onlinesapiens.com/blog/2008/06/01/smooth-transition-to-online-teaching/ The results of this study demonstrate the potential for Personal Learning Environments as a tool for Lifelong Learning, linked to communities of practice. Personal Learning Environments can extend access to educational technology to everyone wanting to organise their own learning. PLEs can include and bring together all learning, including informal ... http://onlinesapiens.com/blog/2008/05/31/personal-learning-environments-as-a-tool-for-lifelong-learning/ You can present a lot of good information in your elearning courses, but you can’t really control whether or not a person learns from them. The learners own what they learn and much of it is determined by their level of motivation. The good news is that while ... http://onlinesapiens.com/blog/2008/05/31/for-teachers-tips-to-motivate-your-learners/ In addition to a counterintuitive organizational scheme, integrated commercial systems have a built-in pedagogy, evident in the easiest-to-use, most accessible features. The focus on presentation (written documents to read), complemented by basic "discussion" input from students, is based on traditional lecture, review, and test pedagogy. This orientation is very ... http://onlinesapiens.com/blog/2008/05/09/learning-management-systems-lms-limit-instructional-creativity-and-pedagogy/ This post has moved to: Networking with Educators - My Twitter Activity Stats « Onlinesapiens Blog http://onlinesapiens.com/blog/2008/05/09/networking-with-twitter-my-twitter-stats/ College or university is a central institution of the current post-industrial society. Therefore, the effect of aging on the adult learner and implications for educators will be examined in that context. The focus here is on the adult that has had life experiences and has often been referred to as ... http://onlinesapiens.com/blog/2008/05/04/adult-learners-implications-for-colleges-and-educators/ These posts by Michael Martinez should help new edubloggers Build a New Community and Develop Web Friends and Allies These are the best posts I have read, so far, about how to start to network to build your own community http://onlinesapiens.com/blog/2008/04/20/how-can-new-edubloggers-develop-their-own-communities/ The Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education are a popular framework for evaluating teaching in traditional, face-to-face courses You can read how these Seven Principles are used to evaluate good practice in online undergraduate courses: - TLT Group - The Technology Source Archives - SUNY Learning Network - Journal of ... http://onlinesapiens.com/blog/2008/04/19/online-teaching-seven-principles-for-good-practice-in-online-undergraduate-education/ Angela Maiers and Pat Hensley both posted their list of the 26 keys (or ABCs) to Student Engagement http://onlinesapiens.com/blog/2008/04/19/student-engagement/ Information overload? Not anymore. Single Page Aggregators are the new wave of web 2.0 portals and directories. Instead of aggregating web sites, the Single Page Aggregators track the feeds from those sites. Until now Popurls and Original Signal only tracked a few popular topics. ... http://onlinesapiens.com/blog/2008/03/19/single-page-aggregators-the-web-20-portals-and-directories/ Finally, I was struck by how difficult it felt to accept much of what I was hearing because, and this is something that is really concerning me (seriously), few if any of these folks had the network creds to be “trusted.” Now I know this is an admission that ... http://onlinesapiens.com/blog/2008/03/11/21st-century-skills-for-educators-social-networked-learning-and-publishing/