Posts Tagged ‘online learning’

K12 online competency based

a performance- or competency-based approach to education
little evidence that personalized learning improves student learning, in part because so many different approaches are used.

proficiency-based learning

Does the future of schooling look like Candy Land?

Advocates of competency-based education say they believe public opinion is also shifting their way. They point to a recent national poll showing that 74 percent of voters think the lack of personalized learning in schools is “a problem.”

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more on competency based ed in this iMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=competency+based

higher-ed programs using XR

5 higher-ed programs using XR to transform how college students learn

Colleges and universities are using virtual and augmented reality in courses that range from human anatomy to media as a way to make education more immersive and inclusive.

medical school students at Colorado State University’s Clapp Lab reach for virtual reality (VR) headsets, which dangle from the ceiling of the 2,500 square foot facility.

Distance learning in VR

Building community and critical thinking skills

Exploring XR storytelling 

Evaluating the influence of media in XR
At Syracuse University’s Newhouse School of Public Communications, Associate Professor T. Makana Chock is conducting research on storytelling in XR

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More immersive and higher Ed in this blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=immersive+higher+ed

Instructional approaches

A Beginner’s Guide to Flipped Classroom

https://www.schoology.com/blog/flipped-classroom

Our 2018-2019 Global State of Digital Learning research study revealed some interesting insights about instructional approaches. It was taken by 9,279 education professionals from all across the country in various roles and districts.

When we look at instructional approaches most frequently used, the top ones are differentiated instruction (73.5%), blended learning (54.8%), and individualized learning (47.8%). And while flipped learning, personalized learning, and gamification command the most press, they aren’t being practiced as much as one might think. In many ways, this makes a lot of sense. These approaches require more time and resources than many of the others.

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virtual tools to remain

Will this semester forever alter college? No, but some virtual tools will stick around

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.

If anything, what people are mistaking now for online education — long class meetings in videoconference rooms, professors in their bathrobes, do-it-yourself tools made of rubber bands and cardboard — appears to be making them less, not more, open to it.

OLC Online Learning Consortium

Delivering High-Quality Instruction Online in Response to COVID-19

Faculty Playbook

https://onlinelearningconsortium.org/tools/delivering-high-quality-instruction-in-response-to-covid-19-faculty-playbook/

OLC Ideate—Virtual Salon Series

https://onlinelearningconsortium.org/learn/olc-ideate-virtual-events/

OLC Quality Scorecard Suite

https://onlinelearningconsortium.org/consult/olc-quality-scorecard-suite/

Angela Gunder: http://angelagunder.com/ 

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more on OLC in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2019/04/03/olc-collaborate/

innovative online instructor

5 ways to be an innovative online instructor

BY DR. KATHARINE BENTHAM, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, RASMUSSEN UNIVERSITY
January 21st, 2021

https://www.ecampusnews.com/2021/01/21/5-ways-to-be-an-innovative-online-instructor/

1. Assess the level of student engagement
2. Leverage technology
3. Get student input
4. Encourage student involvement
5. Have discussions with your peers

college after discruption

https://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/opinion/2020/12/19/guest-opinion-online-education-improve-2021/3947676001/

Online learning is here to stay

Greater focus on equitable access

Employers will partner with universities to develop talent

Increased demand for nondegree credentials 

In 2021, we will see individuals supplement their current or past postsecondary degrees with nondegree credentials and in-demand skills.

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more on microcredentials in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=microcredential

Gig Academy

House of Cards: Can the American university be saved?

Daniel BessnerTwitter Sept 8, 2929

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/gig-academy-meritocracy-trap-universities-crisis/

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Your Classes Are on Zoom and Your Teaching Staff Is Being Cut

FRANCO PALAZZI

https://jacobinmag.com/2020/04/academia-uk-essex-university-layoffs-higher-education/

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On the Current Situation: Normal Violences, Pandemics, Emergencies, Necropolitics, Zombies, and Creepy Treehouses?Jeremy Hunsinger

https://fastcapitalism.journal.library.uta.edu/index.php/fastcapitalism/article/view/386

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