As more and more colleges and universities have shut down their campuses to curb the spread of COVID-19, education technology companies have stepped forward to help move student learning to the virtual realm.
Zoom is now a household name for work-from-home employees. Here is your guide to Zoom basics, including its security vulnerabilities and video conferencing alternatives such as Microsoft Teams.
There have been many waves of emerging learning technologies over the past few decades. Some of these waves are extended, some waves are connected, and other waves are repeated. The authors discuss the special journal issue from the standpoint of their personal involvement in many such waves during their careers. They also detail the evolution of this special issue and the potential audiences and stakeholders for it. In the end, they pose several questions and points to ponder in looking toward the future.
The hard part can be getting the confidence to talk to the camera, but making simple videos for online teaching can help you engage with students. This video was produced by Michael Wesch, professor at Kansas State University. You can find more videos like this on his YouTube channel @Michael Wesch .
A mini-course is a short-form learning experience for students that helps them tackle a new skill. Instead of a big topic, it focuses on sub-topics that are more suitable to being broken down into chunks. A student might take a mini-course in isolation. Or they might take a series of mini-courses to build mastery around a broader topic.
The benefits of a mini-course are manifold. Students can see big ideas as a combination of smaller ones. This means a concept might not feel as overwhelming as if it was all grouped together at the start. It also allows students to carve out a smaller amount of time at first to see if a topic is actually of interest to them.
The recent international shift to online or remote learning has understandably resulted in greater reliance on instructional videos such as lecture captures, how-to videos, and screencasts. But it's important that educators realise instructional video needs to be integrated with learning activities. Read more at Monash Lens.
Online teaching cannot replicate every aspect of face-to-face teaching, but it can encourage us to radically reimagine our courses.
Online learning, much more than face-to-face learning, is a design challenge. Improvisation is far more difficult in a virtual environments. Activities need to be preplanned.
Online teaching cannot replicate every aspect of face-to-face teaching, but it can encourage us to radically reimagine our courses.
Online learning, much more than face-to-face learning, is a design challenge. Improvisation is far more difficult in a virtual environments. Activities need to be preplanned.
This video list of insights comes from experts in the field of online teaching. Here is a collection of 8 lessons that might improve your online course! Featured: Joanna Dunlap, Assistant Director for Teaching Effectiveness, University of Colorado-Denver. Patrick Lowenthal, Instructional Designer, Boise State University.
Teaching online but you don't want to be on camera? You have several off-camera options for teaching online. Check out the whole series! New videos posted every week.
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At Georgia State University, students learn not only the technical competencies deemed necessary for "digital literacy"; they learn how to pair their new technical understanding with fledgling leadership skills. Now Tiffany Green-Abdullah, founding director of GSU's Digital Learners to Leaders co-curricular program since 2018, is focusing on developing similar programs to be offered more widely — outside GSU.
Zhou Yi was terrible at math. He risked never getting into college. Then a company called Squirrel AI came to his middle school in Hangzhou, China, promising personalized tutoring. He had tried tutoring services before, but this one was different: instead of a human teacher, an AI algorithm would curate his lessons. The 13-year-old decided…
With many universities still physically closed and planning for a continued foray into online course delivery, numerous experts have published pieces advising teachers on how to teach online. There are some deeply thoughtful and indeed helpful pieces out there, yet…
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