UDL!! The Recognition Network: Learning about UDL has been liberating: I now know why to include images rather than just text in my PPTs (I thought they were unnecessary decoration or ‘cutesy’); why my colleague almost always includes a visual (screen) during a talk; why my screen now will have a great deal of white …
Category: Online Learning
Aug 03
OERs; and So long and thanks for all the fish… (Is that copyrighted?)
Friends, I’m hustling to get my last bits done before heading off to Kenya for two weeks. I leave on Thursday, and I’m not close to being ready. So, this will piece won’t exhibit my usual flare for overly-dramatic and/or insanely hilarious posting. Briefly: I have been aware of Open Educational Resources through my teaching …
Jul 16
Self-directed Heutagogical Learning
I loved the article on self-directed heutagogical learning. I feel like my online course has found a home. It of course will be a challenge. The concept is still so new and unknown that my computer is telling me it is misspelled. In my course, I am seeking to develop self-motivated ministers to do acts …
Jul 14
Self-Evaluated, Self-Directed and Heutagogical Learning – NIMC (Not In My Classroom!)
The prompt asks us to describe our initial thoughts on designing an entire course or a single assignment, and my very first reaction is included in the subject line. Having said that, I think I need to clarify – I’m thinking mostly about the undergraduate prerequisite science courses that I’ll be responsible for in the …
Jul 06
My motivation is accessibility, but my fears are many
I am motivated to teach “in the online classroom,” as Leah describes it, by several factors, some external and some internal. Several have mentioned in their posts their desire to keep up-to-date, to be able to use some of these resources/ module formats in their face-to-face courses, and to be able to reach a wider …
Jul 03
Online teaching and classroom teaching—How do they compare?
In their essay, “Teaching Time Investment: Does Online Really Take More Time than Face-to-Face? “ (http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/rt/printerFriendly/1190/2212, accessed June 27, 2014), Rebecca Van de Vord and Korolyn Pogue discuss the difficulty of trying to determine whether online teaching is more or less time intensive than conventional classroom teaching. They admit that variables for such an analysis …
Jul 01
Vision vs. Reality?
Yes, it’s exciting to me: an online course will allow learners who cannot attend F2F courses to benefit from what we teach. Even if I design online learning modules (different from an entire course), this will improve the efficiency and effectiveness of F2F: it will free up time for more meaningful interactions and engagement with …
Jun 30
Optional M1 Reflection Post
Feel free to respond to any/all of these question prompts: How are you feeling about EFOT in general? How did the video tutorials reinforce the M1 activities? What did you think about Zaption, the interactive video software? How was using VoiceThread to begin to connect with one another? What are your thoughts about using VoiceThread …
Jun 30
Motivations and challenges for online teaching
I confess that my motivations for teaching online are mostly external–we have a new degree program that offers online learning, and half of the students concentrate in my area. However, given that it’s now a “fact of life,” I find it an interesting challenge to try and transfer some of what I do well in …
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