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 [...]

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 [...]

The “Online” Continuum

We often talk about online delivery in terms of “fully-online”, as opposed to blended/mixed, or enhanced. These conversations tend to try and clarify what considerations we should take when designing and delivering instruction and training. However, I think we need to further consider whether these are distinct modalities, or a continuum. Fully-online (asynchronous) Online (w/ [...]