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 [...]

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 very short celebrated life of EtherPad

I’ve been hearing quite a bit about EtherPad for the past several months. Its sort of a chat/wiki/Google Docs/Wave thingy. I hadn’t actually tried it out until the other day when a faculty member asked if I had any suggestions for an alternative to the chat tool within our LMS. He was hoping to include [...]

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 [...]

Here comes Open Content

Each year New Media Consortium and EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative publish the Horizon Report, listing emerging technologies for teaching & learning and predicting the time-to-adoption for education. The report lists the technologies to watch into three time frames: one year or less, two to three years, and three to five years. in this year’s report: One [...]