Sloan-C Blended Learning Conference

I’m attending the 7th Annual Sloan-C Conference on Blended Learning in Chicago today and tomorrow: The Promise and Practice of Blended Learning. Thought I’d share a little about my day. Here are my notes from this morning’s keynote… Joel Hartman, Vice Provost for Information Technologies and resources, University of Central Florida focused a little on [...]

Learning Interactions and Social Media

In a previous post we considered the migration of interactivity (student-to-instructor, student-to-student, and student-to-content) from the traditional face-to-face classroom to the virtual classroom environment. J. Rhodes’ e-Learning Interaction Matrix illustrates these essential online interactions. At the core of his Matrix are two additional areas of interactivity: the collective and the network. Social media and mobile [...]

Interaction Matrix Core

Interaction Matrix Core, originally uploaded by jrhode. Referring to Jason Rhodes graphic illustration again this week, but taking a closer look at the collective & network components to online interactions. e-Learning Interaction Matrix: Essential Elements of a Socially Constructed Learning Environment, IDOL Resources, 18 November, 2007

Interactions: Online vs Classroom

I was speaking with a number of late adopters the other day (I realize the expression is not actually “late adopters”, but I am somewhat of an optimist – I think about TV and Microwaves and have to believe that everyone will eventually adapt). Anyway, I heard a couple of questions I hadn’t heard in [...]

Technology-Induced Agoraphobia (TIA)

One of the things I enjoy most about my job  is helping faculty decide which technologies to use for teaching and learning. Several times a week an instructor may approach me looking to solve a challenge in their classroom with technology. As a learning technologist (another fun) part of my job is spending time exploring [...]

Setting up VoIP with Adobe Connect Pro

Made this video the other day to help with the challenges of using VoIP with Adobe Connect. Maybe someone will find it useful.

Blended by Design

For the past several years I have offered weekly walk-in sessions introducing faculty to various online technologies for teaching & learning. Invariably, an instructor will find a particular solution intriguing and decide to integrate it into their class. Many of the attendees teach in a traditional face-to-face format and their goal is to simply add [...]

The Future of Online Learning

I predict that in ten years there will be no such thing as “online learning”. There will be only learning; all learning will be to some degree online. Students will choose to what degree based upon their personal learning preferences and the availability of course sections in relation to their location and schedule. Sloan-C recently [...]

Blended Learning and the Space/Time Continuum

  small_space_chart, originally uploaded by bill.knapp. Meegan Lillis and I presented on this topic at the Campus Technology 09 conference this past summer in Boston. The idea was to visually represent the concept of using instructional technology (in this case web 2.0) to bridge time and space. The space continuum along the left side of [...]

Blended or Mixed-delivery?

Our institution of higher ed began using web-conferencing about a year ago. By the end of the year we had 100 host licenses. A host is a user who can initiate a meeting/training/support session. Attendees need not have a license – just hosts. I began using it to permit faculty to connect to our weekly [...]