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5 key components of successful online courses

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Related post: Leading eLearning and a Future Ready library opportunity. Most people assume the move to online courses means students are logging on to the learning management system to take reading quizzes tied to their assigned textbook chapters and posting in the discussion board in line with weekly modules as their schedules allow.

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5 leadership requirements essential for change

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Other areas, such as infrastructure , are discussed in related articles in this series. This is different to “long term commitment” discussed in the previous point. eLearning — note that this is different to IT and traditional teaching. Significantly, eLearning and IT are two different things. Sustained focus.

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Shifting to a Digital Teaching Model? Here’s Some Advice

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I remember scrambling to learn all I could about the features of Blackboard and reviewing all of my textbook’s eLearning-related ancillaries, assigning self-paced modules and online quizzes to my students. Encourage open and honest discussions that allow faculty to share how they have traditionally taught on campus.

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Educators Discuss Keeping Student Data Safe

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There’s perhaps no other edtech topic discussed more these days than student data privacy. Because keeping your students’ data safe is important to everyone here at Gaggle, we decided that our next webcast should focus on what school leaders and edtech companies can do to protect student data.

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How to Teach With Videos

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Communication skills are enhanced when students work in teams, whether it be by writing a script together or discussing a video shown in class. Discussing and applying the information with the students in class the next day provides greater lesson plan and learning style flexibility. eLearning and Virtual Teaching.

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How to hire technology leaders, not followers

eSchool News

This article discusses sculpting the staffing mix of an organization. Discussions about blended learning and flipped learning, use of Online Learning Environments, experience with finding technology based resources to supplement and differentiate learning need to be raised (and covered in more than a superficial way).

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6 Tips for How to Build an Online College Degree from Scratch #DLNchat

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The discussion is outlined below but it’s not too late to share your own ideas, just tweet them with the hashtag #DLNchat. As Robert Weisser recommended: “Building open educational resources into the curriculum and giving students more opportunities to access them, evaluate them as part of class discussion, and improve them if possible.”.

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