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Say personalized learning to most people and it conjures up classrooms where every child is doing their own thing and the teacher is furiously trying to maintain order and overview in an otherwise ... 
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In my work as an educational technologist in Higher Education (and with academic/teaching experience in HE) I am more frequently receiving queries and requests from teaching staff who want to make a video of their lecture so it can be available to their students on their module site in the institutional VLE.
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November 4, 2014 4:14 PM
Great point about video not being always necessary! Just watching someone talk is BORING! Plus if it is just audio - downloading it becomes portable and now you are not tied to a screen. I can listen in my car, on my walk, washing dishes... Yes, maybe I need to listen and take notes, but sometimes a general overview of the content is nice too.
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Psychological research has long been fascinated with how humans learn and retain memories. Here are some amazing facts of how the brain learns and remembers.
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Are you an instructor who struggles to change the mindset of your students? Do you find that the students’ first questions are about grades rather than the content of the course?
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One of the perennial problems for both academic colleagues and learning technologists is trying to judge the educational value of online courses. Especially in blended learning the online ‘course’ is often just a component of a broader learner experience, and its role really can only be understood in the context of how it supports or extends ‘live’ activities. Thus what looks to a learning technologist like an unsophisticated ‘list of links’ in Moodle may actually support a rich classroom-led enquiry-based learning activity. It is hard to tell without speaking to the lecturer (or students) involved.
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(2014). Putting in more: emotional work in adopting online tools in teaching and learning practices. Teaching in Higher Education: Vol. 19, No. 8, pp. 919-930. doi: 10.1080/13562517.2014.934343.
This paper explores the emotional journey associated with changing one's teaching and learning practices and how this constitutes emotional work. The paper analyses the emotions evident in the data from a small-scale phenomenological study of lecturers who are using technological tools in their teaching, learning and assessment practices in one higher education institution. The discussion illuminates the nature and scale of the emotional work experienced by some lecturers when changing their teaching and learning practices to incorporate technology. It indicates that this challenge is so extreme that even the most committed advocates of online teaching practices may consider giving up and reverting to traditional ways of teaching. The paper identifies strategies that lecturers use to manage the anxieties they experience in their adoption of online tools.
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“Distance learning is here to stay. Educational institutions should have a vision for what type of distance learning programs they will implement and the standards they will hold to. Institutions will master distance learning, or in some cases, distance learning trends and demands will master the school.” This is the conclusion of Joseph McClary of Liberty University in his article, “Factors in High Quality Distance Learning Courses,” appearing in the Summer 2013 issue of the Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration. In it, he examines the components of a high quality distance learning course and some of the barriers to their development.
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July 1, 2016 1:55 AM
As education professionals, we all want our online programs to be of high quality for distance learning courses. This article discusses some of the major points that are needed in a program to ensure its success and high quality nature. We have to ensure our programs are easy to understand and have a simplistic flow to them. If the program is easy to understand then learning can easily take place. To read the other major points read this article and be the best you can be as a developer of high quality distance learning courses.
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The benefits of teaching online? Simple: Flexible hours; work from almost anywhere; greater student diversity; growth industry; more control over what you teach; global network of colleagues; personalized instruction; larger pool of students; easier and cheaper to share content; small investment to get started. But what factors are most important to consider when teaching an …
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Online colleges come with their own unique challenges as well as their own benefits. When studying online, it's crucial to keep yourself organized and motivated.
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The purpose of this paper is to examine factors that contribute to high quality distance learning courses and how to overcome barriers to offering them. For the purposes of this report, high quality equates to courses that receive high scores on student satisfaction surveys and other benchmarks that measure student performance.
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