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#IOLchat Report: Finding Professional Development OpportunitiesEach week we meet via Twitter for #IOLchat to discuss current issues related to online learning. Participants include students, instructors, eLearning companies, schools, publishers, and instructional designers. As we approach the summer months, …
Monthly Archives: July 2011
What is a Tweet Chat?
By Melissa Venable Last month I began moderating a weekly discussion, via Twitter, that focuses on topics addressed in the Inside Online Learning blog. Recent topics of our #IOLchat include: quality in online education, online course communication, transparency in online education, trends in eTextbooks, and online course demos and virtual tours. This has definitely been [...]
Augmented Reality: An Introduction
By Melissa Venable The 2011 Horizon Report, an annual collaborative project of the New Media Consortium and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative, listed augmented reality as an emerging technology that will likely be widely adopted in higher education in the next 2-3 years. What is augmented reality (AR) and how can it be used for educational [...]
Google+: New Social Media for Education?
By Melissa Venable Whether you consider yourself a technology innovator or laggard, you may want to take a look at Google+. It's a new, brand new, social network launched less than a month ago. It's also Google's latest attempt at creating an online social network (you may remember Google Wave and Google Buzz). There are [...]
20 Most Cutting Edge Books for Educators
Teachers need to stay on top of reading and learning if they want to know all about the latest trends in their fields and provide the best quality education.
What’s new for college textbooks?
By Melissa Venable You've probably seen the articles predicting the end of printed copy or declaring the book format as "dead." People are increasingly choosing eBooks over print versions and schools continue to develop eBook initiatives. Publishers are also offering more interactivity in the digital format. What does all of this mean for textbooks? eTextbook [...]
Online Education of the Future
By Melissa Venable The Internet makes information available in a way that may shape the future not only of the learning process, but also of learning institutions themselves. Networked communication systems, collections of data, publications, and multimedia presentations allow us to access all of these resources at times of our choosing to both retrieve information [...]
Transparency and Online Education
By Melissa Venable In a recent Inside Online Learning Live Chat, I moderated a discussion about determining quality in online programs. How do you know that a program is of high quality before you enroll? What are the benchmarks and indicators students need to be aware of and actively research when choosing an online program? This [...]
Coming Soon! New Occupational Outlook Handbook
By Melissa Venable As an online student, you may already be working with your school's career center to research employment options and ways to apply your degree or certificate on the job market after you graduate. Your career center professionals are able to help you locate the most relevant resources for your search. Fortunately, there [...]
50 Reasons to Invite Facebook Into Your Classroom
Educators are beginning to realize the powerful potential that Facebook has in the classroom, not as a distraction, but as a collaborative learning tool.
Digital Guides and Digital Tribes
By Melissa Venable Moving a course online does not eliminate the need for facilitation, teaching, and guidance. One of the concerns associated with early online education was that students would be left to teach themselves and instructors would be replaced with online course sites. This has not been the case. Highly skilled instructors are an [...]
