Online Learning: Integrating online content into real-world teaching

 

  • Over 1.6 million students took at least one online course during Fall 2002.
  • Over one-third of these students (578,000) took all of their courses online.
  • Eighty-one percent of all institutions of higher education offer at least one fully online or blended course.
  • A majority of academic leaders (57 percent) already believe that the learning outcomes for online education are equal to or superior to those of face-to-face instruction.

·         The Sloan Consortium
Sizing the Opportunity: The Quality and Extent of Online Education in the United States, 2002 and 2003

 

Who is an online learner?
http://www.sloan-c.org/resources/survey.asp

 

 

SUMMER PILOT PROJECT:  Intro to Writing JO201  www.oec.ecollege.com

·         Combined real-world with online learning

·         Structured as a path all participants traveled together; not completely asynchronous learning in that we all had to stay on the same page

·         Very interactive: lots of quizzes, discussions, etc.

·         Critical importance of face-to-face interaction

·         Emerging understanding of value of D&P online

 

 

TUTORIALS:

 

Berkeley http://journalism.berkeley.edu/multimedia

 

ONA:  http://www.journalists.org/training/project_index.html

 

Stanford:  http://scpd.stanford.edu/SCPD/courses/courselets/tour.asp

 

Sloan Effective Practices: http://www.aln.org/effective/index.asp

 

The Howies:  http://www.howies.co.uk/thanks.html

 

 

BLOGS:

 

 

 

 RESEARCH:

DESIGN PRINCIPLES FOR ONLINE INSTRUCION: A NEW KIND OF CLASSROOM  Neil Toporski, Ed.D. and Tim Foley, Ed.D.

http://www.lehigh.edu/tjf0/public/www-data/Greece3.htm