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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. How will your instruction differ when students are not in your direct line of sight in a lecture hall or classroom?

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How to Teach With Videos

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Here are some ideas: Educators – as you know, we’re in a digital world, and using technology in the classroom such as video as a means of communicating messages is taking over. The days of checking books out of the library, traditional style lecturing, and writing papers with a pen are continuously becoming pastimes.

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What It Takes For a College to Go Online

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In one focus group I attended, faculty members recommended that online courses include real-time sessions, that the school stream on-campus lectures and events to remote students, and that faculty establish a uniform and consistent online course evaluation rubric following industry best practices.

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Creating Libraries for Online Students Is Harder Than You Think.

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At Southern New Hampshire University, which has more than 90,000 online students, “eLearning Librarians” are involved in curriculum development from the outset, says Trisha Prevett, one such e-librarian for the school. Here’s how college librarians extend their resources and expertise to students who may never set foot in the stacks.

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Say Goodbye to Boring PD: Rethinking Technology’s Role in Professional Development

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It’s vital for PD leaders to use hands-on learning, and to facilitate rather than lecture. Ken Halla, Ph.D. ( @kenhalla ) still takes and teaches professional development as the eLearning Coordinator for Fairfax County Public Schools in Virginia. blended learners , in real time. No more non-measurement of PD.

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

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As Crisp said, “New degree programs should honor the knowledge and skill students bring to the table by eliminating lectures over content that is repetitive from other courses or life experiences.”. Garay put it this way, “Quality mobile-first eLearning program delivery is, today, a requirement. The #DLNchat community concurred.

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How China’s Schools Are Getting Through COVID-19

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Synchronous online classes require a lot of concentration and so can easily tire students, noted Dr. Wenge Guo, an associate professor of educational technology at Peking University. “We Even graduate students need breaks, say, every 20 minutes during an online lecture. They feel isolated, too,” he added.

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