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A Learner-Centered, Emotionally Engaging Approach to Online Learning

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009

by Rob Kelly, Online Classroom, June 2009

Learning research shows people learn better in the presence of some emotional connection to content or people. Rick Van Sant, of Ferris State University says, “One of the things we know about learning is that learning with emotion is a far deeper experience than learning without emotion.” Technology provides access to a vast array of content that has the potential to resonate emotionally with students. Van Sant recommends that you might like to visit Technology, Entertainment, Design, www.ted.org which features top presenters talking on a wide range of topics.

Keeping that “teachable moment” online in an asynchronous online class is difficult. Create an emotional connection by using a wiki or a blog. Remember to create a learning community.

Rick Van Sant can be reached by email, rickvansant@ferris.edu.

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Promoting Early, Active Discussions Online

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009

Scott Warnock presented at The Teaching Professor Conference, June 5-7 in Washington, D.C.
In a recent study it was found that students who post early also tend to take control of the conversation and check for reactions to their messages.

  • Use simple prompts. Don’t give students too much to think about before responding.
  • Make it fun. Use playful threads.
  • Make discussions valuable. Use posts as evidence of their papers.
  • Have students moderate. Students may respond better to each other…
  • Give students choices. Give them freedom to respond to what they like, not everything.
  • Have students analyze disucssion posts. Have them comment on their own posts.

    • Visit online, www.teachingprofessor.com/blog

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    Burnout and Online Instruction

    Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009

    Burnout and Online Instruction: Tips to Revive Your E-Classroom and Yourself
    by Jody Oomen Early, PdD., MS, CHES Department of Health Studies, Texas Woman’s University. From Online Classroom, January 2009.

  • Create a more “affective” and diverse environment using audio discussions
  • Collaborate: form a learning community, working together across disciplines
  • Establish boundaries, but keep your social presence: clearly announce when you will be online and how frequently you will communicate with students
  • Include informal, non-graded assignments to stimulate discussion and increase learning comprehension – this can reduce the amount of grading you have to do, but increases students connections to content.
  • Take a break! Move away from your computer; take weekends off.
  • Use resources available to help you. Find out what is available to you from your chair.
  • Simplify, simplify, simplify.
  • Don’t try to do everything at once. Take one step at a time. Incorporate one new tool at a time.

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    The Evidence on Online Education

    Monday, June 29th, 2009

    The Evidence on Online Education
    June 29, 2009
    WASHINGTON — Online learning has definite advantages over face-to-face instruction when it comes to teaching and learning, according to a new meta-analysis released Friday by the U.S. Department of Education. Read this article from Inside Higher Ed, http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/06/29/online

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    Lessons of a Summer Teaching Online

    Thursday, November 6th, 2008

    Lessons of a Summer Teaching Online
    By Amy Overman

    This article gives faculty a very good birdseye view of teaching online for the first time. Give it a read when you have a few minutes. It is taken from the November issue of “Inside Higher Ed”. I highly recommend it.

    http://www.insidehighered.com/layout/set/print/views/2008/11/06/overman

    Laura

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