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Wednesday, November 4, 2015

Challenges involved in learning online?



 



Perhaps one of the greatest challenges for teachers is to deliver a consistent experience to a large and varied general populations.
Teachers and students should not carry through device management. Their priorities should be placed on learning.
Technology is not the creator. Substantial belief in innovation is less important than the requirements of students and teachers.
Teachers have a well-defined responsibility with implementing, and identifying, the best combination of digital learning tools for each student.
Different approaches to learning, such as project-based learning,  effective education, game-based learning, and more, is a part of personalized blended learning models. Consequently, such innovations will call for demonstration how their package improves learning outcomes.
Most challenges have to do with the procedures, but they have nothing to do with the teaching itself. To make it simple, if you know how to teach, all you need to do is learn about the elementary online tools available for online teaching, and begin using them.
As mentioned earlier, teaching an online class can be time-consuming. Also, developing an online class can be overwhelming. Learning and becoming proficient using an LMS takes time, and uploading materials to the online environment is also demanding and takes much time. Once you learn how to use the LMS, you need to get to teach students through it.
The time required to generate a new class can be a problem with developing online classes.
The instructor should be able to take care of the subject matter rather than spend
countless time is managing difficulties connected with the technology.
One of the most recommended ways to cope with the additional time required for teaching online classes is to decrease the class size.
Students also regularly run into technological problems and they need support with technology issues.
Navigating the Unique Challenges of Online Teaching. (n.d.). Retrieved from  




ABOUT ONLINE LEARNING



Blended Online/Face-to-face Courses
The term blended learning implies that some of class time/activities will be in the classroom, and some will be online. For example, a course where students traditionally would be expected to be in class for 3 hours per week, in a blended course would come to class for 1 hour and spend 2 hours per week in online activities.
Ideally, the use of BlackBerry can help in the organization and execution of learning tasks. These include reading, research, writing, sharing, and group-work. The following partial list illustrates various strategies that you can implement:
  • Online assessment: move your tests, quizzes and practice tests into the Bb testing engine. Tests are delivered and marked automatically.
  • Set up “communities of practice” using Bb’s discussion forums and group work areas for smaller teams. Many instructors break up large classes into small teams and assign learning tasks to the teams. The teams eventually use Bb to report back to the class as a whole about their results.
  • Put all your reference materials in Bb
  • Place pre-class work online (learning activities students must complete before attending face-to-face classroom activities).
  • Set up coaching forums to help cover complex or tough subject areas.
  • Deliver learning aids or lab support materials online (e.g. power point shows, handouts)
  • Provide access to “experts” via the web.
  • Use e-mail effectively with the “send e-mail” tool. Blanket the entire class with a general announcement or select specific groups/teams or individuals.
  • Create folders for each module; insert resources, practice tests, sample assignments, readings, etc. – Label clearly.


Tuesday, November 3, 2015

Eduardo Lina - Teacher, Trainer, Moodler, Google Innovator: Moodle Mooc 7 Nov. 1 + 2 Wiziq sessions

Eduardo Lina - Teacher, Trainer, Moodler, Google Innovator: Moodle Mooc 7 Nov. 1 + 2 Wiziq sessions

I enjoyed Curt Bonks session of November 1 (MM7: MOOCs and Open Education: Recent News and Research Clues - Link ) , but was overwhelmed by...
This is my new colleague from MM7.
I am so proud of cooperating with Eduardo.

https://youtu.be/UdNtLNYqz8I 

The Rise Of Informal Learning

The Rise Of Informal Learning
 Research showed that 80+% of the way people learn their jobs is informal. I asked why, if Informal Learning was carrying more of the load, did organizations invest most of their spend on Learning and Development on formal learning? Profit oriented managers were intrigued, but they didn’t know what to do about it. It was an emperor’s new clothes moment.

Sunday, October 25, 2015

HALINA'S LEARNING, TEACHING AND MUCH MORE....: Presenters of Moodle MOOC 7

HALINA'S LEARNING, TEACHING AND MUCH MORE....: Presenters of Moodle MOOC 7: Moodle MOOC 7 (MM7) is scheduled to take place from November 1 - 30,  2015 on Moodle for Teachers . Organized by Dr. Nellie Deutsch Dr. ...

Presenters of Moodle MOOC 7

Moodle MOOC 7 (MM7) is scheduled to take place from November 1 - 30,  2015 on Moodle for Teachers.
Organized by Dr. Nellie Deutsch
Dr. Nellie Deutsch (Ed.D) is an education technology advisor, English faculty member  in blended learning and fully online programs at a university and faculty on leadership fully online in the transpersonal graduate program at Atlantic University. She’s on the IATEFL YLTSIG, EDMedia executive, WAOE, TESOL CALL-IS, HEIS and SSIS committees. Nellie has been teaching English in high school and at the college level for over 35 years and integrating technology since 1992. She organizes free online programs for educators on how to manage and teach with Moodle and integrate technology into face-to-face, blended, and fully online courses online MOOCs, online conferences (Connecting Online and Moodle MOOTs), and other online events such as Fall and Spring Blog Festivals. She is passionate about using technologies such as Moodle, WizIQ, Movenote, PresentMe, Slidespeech, Screencast-o-matic, and google drive to promote active learning and teaching as a way to learn.

The purpose of the MOOC is to connect for instruction and learning, reflective practice, social and collaborative learning, cultural exchange and peace, personal and professional development, community building, best practices and challenges involved in teaching with technology, student engagement with the content, peers, and the facilitator, and learning to teach online with Moodle course and learning management system.

MM7 includes webinars and Moodle training. The presenters of the webinars will focus on connecting online for collaborative learning and teaching with technology, education technology, professional development, and topics that pertain to teaching and learning online and/or on mobile devices/smartphones.

The Moodle training will take place on Moodle for Teachers (M4T) Moodle website and will focus on active learning, reflection, sharing, and collaboration. The aim of the course is for the participants to learn through meaningful connections and social interactions. Participants, who wish to receive a certificate of participation, will be required to document their learning experiences by keeping a blog, wiki, website, or any other artifact that will include a description and reflection of the live sessions and/or recordings.

The Moodle training will include Moodle, Google Drive Docs, blogs, Google Apps, Mobile Devices, Virtual Classes, and other online learning environments for face-to-face, blended, and fully online learning. In addition, participants will learn to use Movenote, Screencast-o-matic, PresentMe, SlideSpeech, Plotagon, Smore, Quizlet, Slideshare, Evernote, Movenote, WizIQ, and other technologies for effective and engaging student-based activities. The live presentations will include the speakers’ reflective process on teaching and learning in fully online and blended learning formats.

Course Highlights

  • Moodle 2.9 Theories and Practice Training
  • Active Learning: Teaching as a Way to Learn
  • Learning & Teaching Online: Creating Engaging Activities
  • Collaborative Learning
  • Learning and Teaching in a Live Online Class
  • Blended Learning
  • Flipped Learning
  • Fully online learning
  • Mobile Learning
  • APPs for Learning

Moodle for Teachers

Moodle MOOC 7 Moodle for Teachers training course on how to use Moodle 2.9 for instruction is an asynchronous component of the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on Moodle for teachers and anyone interested in teaching online using Moodle, WizIQ, and other web technologies. The course will take place in the month of November 2015. The MOOC is in the spirit of open education and is completely free.

Friday, October 23, 2015

HALINA'S LEARNING, TEACHING AND MUCH MORE....: Competence in Communication

HALINA'S LEARNING, TEACHING AND MUCH MORE....: Competence in Communication: The presentation is about how to communicate efficiently and the ways of improving communication skills. My online activity inspired me t...

Competence in Communication



The presentation is about how to communicate efficiently and the ways of improving communication skills.
My online activity inspired me to get reverting to my earlier research about effective communication.
From my view, connecting with the use of the Internet seems to be creating new questions about the way people communicate.
I am working to present a theoretical backdrop to the principles of the process of communication, as well as communications skills models.
My approach is based on the well-known model of the functions of language introduced by Roman Jakobson. Although it is recognizable that Jakobson’s theory can be challenged on numerous grounds from a theoretical perspective, I have always been linked with his theoretical explanation of the purposes of linguistic communication.
“Jakobson and Halle’s initial statement of the principles of linguistic organization should be made available to all future generations of linguists. It builds a solid foundation for Saussurean thinking about linguisic oppositions and establishes distinctive feature theory as the basis of their formal treatment.”
Prof. Dr. William Labov, University of Pennsylvania, Department of Linguistics
Along with Roman Jakobson’s functions of the language model, we can formulate some basic queries.
• What is Communication?
• The Categories of Communication.
• The Communication Process.
• Communication Channels.
• Principles of Communication.
• Interpersonal Communication Skills.
• What is an online communication?
• The Benefits of Blogging.