Online Instruction

Marian Stoltz-Loike offers tips for making online education more effective:

1. Post your syllabus;
2. Stop lecturing;
3. Get students involved;
4. Solicit student feedback;
5. Think out of the box;
6. Encourage students to self-assess;
7. Use collaborative tools;
8. Make material relevant to the current events; and,
9. Hold office hours.

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Information Literacy Instruction in an Online Environment

Melissa Wong uses this hour long presentation to provide tips for teaching information literacy to online university students.

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Online College Students Report

The Online College Students report indicates that:

1. 85 percent of students feel that online is as good or better than an onsite course.
2. Online students need career services.
3. Online students use mobile technology.
4. Students want more majors offered.

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Online or Onsite Courses

Beth McMurftrie examines research about the best mix of online and onsite classes . A blended environment seems to provide the best balance for student success.

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Student Video Presentations as a Learning Tool

Robert Talbert exhorts faculty to include student video assignments in their online courses. Talbert provides examples of student videos, and explains why the inclusion of such assignments is a powerful boost for student learning.

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Online Education Not Popular With Traditional Freshmen

Mary Ellen McIntire observes that there is low demand for online programs by traditional freshmen at the University of Florida.

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Flexible Learning Modality

Casey Frabris reports on Peirce College's experiment with letting adult learners choose their learning modality - that is, whether they are in a physical or online classroom - on a weekly basis.

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Online Education

Daphne Koller exposes that could be available from learning management systems -- "What We're Learning From Online Education ."

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Online Collaboration

Mike Scheuermann notes the efforts to encourage collaboration amoung online students and Drexel University.

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MOOC Usage Statistics

Lawrence Biemiller cites Penn State statistics that the vast majority of MOOC registrants do not attend classes . Comments indicate that some MOOC users are emboldened to register for courses they question taking because there is no cost commitment.

The Penn State study shows that course completion varies from two to fourteen percent.

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Which Is Better: Coaching or a Chat Room?

Elena Aguilar shares her preference for face-to-face coaching rather than online forums in her blog post Which Is Better: Coaching or a Chat Room?. I believe her concerns also reflect face-to-face sharing of knowledge with students, for is not a teacher in one sense a student's coach?

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