Digital Literacy for St. Cloud State University
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more on art and immersive teaching in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=art+immersive
https://www.facebook.com/groups/onlinelearningcollective/permalink/569248850372484/
Everyone knows and agrees that “Blackboard is Ugly” but Blackboard simply won’t die because having been in the market the longest they are in someways best (if minimally) adapted to provided the services that colleges need.
Freeware suffers from a lack of development support, and as Blackboard imitators age they too grow less intuitive complex and outdated in their presentations of information.
I do think there is a solution, and it comes from the early days of the internet, a concept largely abandon except in the world of mathematics where we still use LaTeX. That solution is MARK UP LANGUAGE
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more on LMS in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=lms
Will this semester forever alter college? No, but some virtual tools will stick around
when we talk about online education is using digital technologies to transform the learning experience,” said Vijay Govindarajan, a professor at Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business. “That is not what is happening right now. What is happening now is we had eight days to put everything we do in class onto Zoom.”
Conceiving, planning, designing and developing a genuine online course or program can consume as much as a year of faculty training and collaboration with instructional designers, and often requires student orientation and support and a complex technological infrastructure.
More than 75 percent [of undergraduate students ] said they don’t think they’re receiving a quality learning experience, according to a survey of nearly 1,300 students by the online exam-prep provider OneClass. In a separate poll of 14,000 college and graduate students in early April by the website niche.com, which rates schools and colleges, 67 percent said they didn’t find online classes as effective as in-person ones.
if there’s a silver lining in this situation for residential colleges and universities, it’s that students no longer take for granted the everyday realities of campus life: low-tech face-to-face classes, cultural diversions, libraries, athletics, extracurricular activities, in-person office hours and social interaction with their classmates.
Online higher education “is a thin diet for the typical 18-year-old,” said Richard Garrett, chief research officer at Eduventures. “But today’s 18-year-olds are tomorrow’s 28-year-olds with families and jobs, who then realize that online can be useful.”
Along with their students, faculty were “thrown into the deep end of the pool for digital learning and asked to swim,” Moe said. “Some will sink, some will crawl to the edge of the pool and climb out and they’ll never go back in the pool ever again. But many will figure out what to do and how to kick and how to stay afloat.”
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more on online education in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=online+education
more on emergency teaching in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=emergency+teaching
Beloit College — shifting to a “module based semester” to allow flexibility to move toward either online or in-person classes
Boston University — leaning toward in-person classes
Brown University — leaning toward in-person classes
California State University at Fullerton — starting fall semester online
Centre College — block-scheduling courses in shorter segments to allow flexibility to shift toward either in-person or remote learning
Clemson University — exploring a range of scenarios, from in-person classes to entirely online
Cornell University — no decision expected until June
Montana State University — planning for the return of students in the fall, subject to guidance from a task force
Ohio State University — leaning toward in-person classes, with a final decision by late June
Purdue University — planning to start fall semester in person if testing and contact tracing allows
San Jose State University — planning to conduct classes mostly or entirely online
Southern New Hampshire University — planning to allow students to move into dorms, and is offering full tuition scholarships to incoming freshmen
Stanford University — expects to make a decision in May, but might delay fall quarter till winter
University of Arizona — planning to hold in-person classes
University of Central Florida — leaning toward in-person classes
University of Maine system — planning for in-person classes
University of Maryland system — planning to start in-person, but some larger classes may be online
University of Michigan — hoping to hold classes in-person
University of Missouri — planning for in-person classes
Washington State University — planning for in-person classes
Wayne State University — leaning toward starting fall classes online
West Virginia University — exploring a range of scenarios, from in-person to entirely online
William Jewell College — intends to open for fall semester
https://www.facebook.com/groups/onlinelearningcollective/permalink/565212104109492/
Discussion at faculty Facebook group regarding the syllabus directions for students’ work in online class:
how many hours of regular student work do you think is appropriate to expect from students for an online course of this nature? The class would normally have 3 hours of in-class instruction.
https://online-learning.harvard.edu/catalog/free
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Classes that will continue as best they can, voluntarism, online teaching seen simply as a side dish, students without access to computers or an internet connection, teachers who simply assign essays based on reading material, or measures such as a universal pass have become sadly common.
The change will be permanent: educational activity will no longer be face-to-face or online but a blend, able to move from one to another immediately fluidly, continually, through a student’s life, way beyond the school, college or university years.
Firstly, we need to resolve the so-called digital divide
Secondly, this will mean that teachers must reconsider all their methodologies and prepare them for this new, blended learning environment.
Thirdly, institutions, both educational and normative, must understand that, in this new context, some ways of teaching no longer make sense.
Online teaching will not consist of turning a handle while students learn on their own. On the contrary: it will require teachers to engage more than ever, who will spend many hours in forums moderating conversations and opening new threads.
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more about Educators in VR in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=educators+in+vr
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2020/03/30/1st-day-of-online-learning/