Teaching with Technology

My inclination was to title this final edition of the knowledge-building assignment, “Dismantle the Classrooms?” Because it is the finding of this article from the most recent edition of JOLT that while online or classroom instruction yields no different outcomes for undergraduate students, in the case of graduate instruction online instruction yields “a significant difference […]

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In another class this evening a fellow student used a presentation format I had never seen before. He was very skilled in its use. It can be found at this link http://prezi.com/ Prezi touts itself as a new paradigm for communicating ideas and relationships between ideas, in contrast to static slides (even cool static slides). […]

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Each issue of JOLT includes a section titled “Concept Papers” and this selection concerning m-Learning appears in the most recent edition’s concept paper section. In a one word summary, “Wow.” This article notes the explosion in online course offerings in the past decade, using a medium sized public institution (9,000 students, 500 faculty) as an […]

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“Why Wikis? …” in the latest issue of JOLT is an extremely well-written and balanced overview of the utility and limitations of wikis in instructional settings. On the heels of last week’s disappointing article about wikis this was an encouraging breath of fresh air to read. The authors from East Carolina and Eastern Kentucky universities […]

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The first article in this sixth volume of JOLT, A Case Study of Wikis’ Effects on Online Transactional Interactions applies the learning theories of M.G. Moore concerning transactional distance (less is better) and learner autonomy (more is better) to the use of wikis in an online learning course. This brief article is painstakingly documented and […]

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This article compares learning outcomes and student perceptions of learning for the same introductory music course, including a performance component, taught in both face-to-face (F2F) and online (OL) modalities. Both courses included F2F performance exams. The learning objectives for this course included learning to read music, use musical terminology, identify the structure of music, play […]

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This article describes the use of a virtual world, Second Life (SL), in a six-week graduate course in e-commerce offered at Iowa State University to 29 students. The course documented in this article was a first time experience utilizing SL for instruction at Iowa State both for the participating faculty and students. For those who […]

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I’m at Richard Bland College in Petersburg VA for the day, meeting in the library, and was a bit surprised to see this sign conspicuously posted at the library entrance. I’m not surprised such bans are common in K-12 libraries – but in colleges? A companion sign that I didn’t photograph prohibits cell phones with […]

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This article from the Journal of Online Learning and Teaching reports the results of a research study conducted by a faculty member at Texas Women’s University in which students report their experiences in both online (“OL”) and face-to-face (“F2F”) courses utilizing instructor-made videos. The article cites past studies establishing that students in OL courses learn […]

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This is a synopsis and review of the article “The Narrative Case Study Meets Hypertext: Case Studies in the Digital Age” appearing in the Journal of Online Learning and Teaching. The article contrasts traditional case study pedagogy with new modalities made possible by the internet, and identifies features of the latter that alter the nature […]

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