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Friday, November 02, 2007

Connecting Critical Reflection and Group Development in Online Adult Education Classrooms


Just to let you know that this article below, by Michelle Glowacki-Dudka and Nicole Barnett , appears in 2007, Volume 19, Number 1, edition of International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education

Connecting Critical Reflection and Group Development in Online Adult Education Classrooms
By Michelle Glowacki-Dudka and Nicole Barnett
Ball State University

Abstract

This qualitative multi-case study explored the space where critical reflection and group development met within the online environment for the adult learner. Using critical reflection with adult learners through their responses to Stephen Brookfield’s (1995) Critical Incident Questionnaire (CIQ) in the online environment precipitated instructional effectiveness by unearthing reactions to the online environment and provided a consistent framework for assessing group development.
The study context included two sixteen-week, online, asynchronous graduate courses on adult teaching strategies at a research-intensive university located in Midwestern United States. The findings reflected evidence of Tuckman’s (1965) and Tuckman and Jensen’s (1977) group development sequence of forming, storming, norming, performing, and adjourning within both courses.
The analysis and implications were related to critical reflection, group development, the online environment, and adult learning.

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Connecting Critical Reflection and Group Development in Online Adult Education Classrooms


Just to let you know that this article below, by Michelle Glowacki-Dudka and Nicole Barnett , appears in 2007, Volume 19, Number 1, edition of International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education

Connecting Critical Reflection and Group Development in Online Adult Education Classrooms
By Michelle Glowacki-Dudka and Nicole Barnett
Ball State University

Abstract

This qualitative multi-case study explored the space where critical reflection and group development met within the online environment for the adult learner. Using critical reflection with adult learners through their responses to Stephen Brookfield’s (1995) Critical Incident Questionnaire (CIQ) in the online environment precipitated instructional effectiveness by unearthing reactions to the online environment and provided a consistent framework for assessing group development.
The study context included two sixteen-week, online, asynchronous graduate courses on adult teaching strategies at a research-intensive university located in Midwestern United States. The findings reflected evidence of Tuckman’s (1965) and Tuckman and Jensen’s (1977) group development sequence of forming, storming, norming, performing, and adjourning within both courses.
The analysis and implications were related to critical reflection, group development, the online environment, and adult learning.

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Thursday, November 01, 2007

Online learning grows more popular by Tom Regan


Improved technology has made online classes more attractive to more and more students.
With the spread of broadband technology and improved online teaching tools, students and teachers are finding online classes to be a more fluid and rewarding experience.
The use of Skype, an Internet-based phone service, for example has enhanced the teaching of foreign languages online. Yu-Hsiu Lee, a doctoral student in the Language Education Department of Indiana University, Bloomington, praised Skype for allowing anyone who wants to learn Chinese to have one-on-one instruction with a native speaker. Skype allows students to both see and hear the instructor on their computer screens, he wrote last week in the Skype Journal, a blog devoted to the evolution of Internet phone service. Unlike using a CD to learn a language, he says, Skype allows students to get instant feedback and to ask instructors specific questions.
Along with technological advances, more and more students are taking online classes. The 2007 Sloan Survey of Online Learning found that 1 in 5 higher education students is now taking at least one class online.

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More Online Enrollments by Andy Guess

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Online learning grows more popular by Tom Regan


Improved technology has made online classes more attractive to more and more students.
With the spread of broadband technology and improved online teaching tools, students and teachers are finding online classes to be a more fluid and rewarding experience.
The use of Skype, an Internet-based phone service, for example has enhanced the teaching of foreign languages online. Yu-Hsiu Lee, a doctoral student in the Language Education Department of Indiana University, Bloomington, praised Skype for allowing anyone who wants to learn Chinese to have one-on-one instruction with a native speaker. Skype allows students to both see and hear the instructor on their computer screens, he wrote last week in the Skype Journal, a blog devoted to the evolution of Internet phone service. Unlike using a CD to learn a language, he says, Skype allows students to get instant feedback and to ask instructors specific questions.
Along with technological advances, more and more students are taking online classes. The 2007 Sloan Survey of Online Learning found that 1 in 5 higher education students is now taking at least one class online.

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More Online Enrollments by Andy Guess

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Intel, OLPC supply special computers to students in developing nations

The race to supply low-cost laptop computers to students in developing nations has heated up:

Within hours of the news that Uruguay had become the first nation to buy XO laptops from former MIT professor Nicholas Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) organization, Intel Corp. countered by unveiling deals with two African nations to purchase its Classmate PCs.
The dueling announcements underscore how competitive the global market has become for makers of educational technology.
Uruguay's government has placed the first official order for OLPC's so-called "$100 laptop," which now costs nearly $200, according to several news reports. The South American country has ordered 100,000 XO computers for schoolchildren ages six to 12. Uruguay might purchase an additional 300,000 of the machines to provide one for every child in the country by 2009.
The sale gives a boost to OLPC, which has acknowledged having trouble getting orders.

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Source: eSchool News
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Intel, OLPC supply special computers to students in developing nations

The race to supply low-cost laptop computers to students in developing nations has heated up:

Within hours of the news that Uruguay had become the first nation to buy XO laptops from former MIT professor Nicholas Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) organization, Intel Corp. countered by unveiling deals with two African nations to purchase its Classmate PCs.
The dueling announcements underscore how competitive the global market has become for makers of educational technology.
Uruguay's government has placed the first official order for OLPC's so-called "$100 laptop," which now costs nearly $200, according to several news reports. The South American country has ordered 100,000 XO computers for schoolchildren ages six to 12. Uruguay might purchase an additional 300,000 of the machines to provide one for every child in the country by 2009.
The sale gives a boost to OLPC, which has acknowledged having trouble getting orders.

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Source: eSchool News
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Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Legal Education at a Distance by Scott Jaschik


Concord, an online law school, merges with Kaplan and gains aid eligibility; Penn State wins unusual variance from the ABA’s strict limits on distance ed.
As online education has become more and more popular, law schools have largely been on the sidelines. The American Bar Association will not accredit distance programs, and has strict limits on the use of distance education in traditional programs.
On Tuesday, however, the online only Concord School of Law — which has managed to grow without ABA recognition — announced a merger with Kaplan University. In terms of corporate ownership, this isn’t much of a change — both Concord and Kaplan are divisions of Kaplan Inc., a major player in for-profit higher education. But because Kaplan University is regionally accredited (which Concord is not), the merger will make Concord students eligible for federal student loans and to defer repaying their past student loans when enrolled. These are seen as advances for Concord — whose officials say that they believe law school’s efforts will eventually change attitudes about distance legal education.

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Legal Education at a Distance by Scott Jaschik


Concord, an online law school, merges with Kaplan and gains aid eligibility; Penn State wins unusual variance from the ABA’s strict limits on distance ed.
As online education has become more and more popular, law schools have largely been on the sidelines. The American Bar Association will not accredit distance programs, and has strict limits on the use of distance education in traditional programs.
On Tuesday, however, the online only Concord School of Law — which has managed to grow without ABA recognition — announced a merger with Kaplan University. In terms of corporate ownership, this isn’t much of a change — both Concord and Kaplan are divisions of Kaplan Inc., a major player in for-profit higher education. But because Kaplan University is regionally accredited (which Concord is not), the merger will make Concord students eligible for federal student loans and to defer repaying their past student loans when enrolled. These are seen as advances for Concord — whose officials say that they believe law school’s efforts will eventually change attitudes about distance legal education.

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Angel To Supply Learning Management for Harcourt Programs by Dave Nagel







Angel Learning and Harcourt Education have formed an alliance for e-learning.
Through the arrangement, Angel will provide learning management technologies for use with educational programs from Harcourt School Publishers and Holt, Rinehart and Winston.
Complete details have not yet been revealed. Angel is the developer of the Angel LMS, a learning management system designed for both K-12 and higher ed. The company said it will provide this LMS for use with "key" Harcourt programs, but how and in what form the LMS will be integrated into the programs remains to be seen.

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Epic's blended BTEC in Positive Behavioural Support

Epic, the leading e-learning company, and Bro Morgannwg NHS Trust have been working together to create a blended solution for their course in Positive Behavioural Support (PBS). The course is for support workers who provide care for people with learning disabilities and challenging behaviour. The course is accredited by BTEC at Advanced Certificate level.

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It is about the teaching and learning!


This past week Cheryl Oakes had the good fortune to spend the day in 7th grade language arts classes to assist with the introduction of ibooks and NeoOffice to our students.

Source: TechLEARNING
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Editor's Hand Picked Headline News


Angel To Supply Learning Management for Harcourt Programs by Dave Nagel







Angel Learning and Harcourt Education have formed an alliance for e-learning.
Through the arrangement, Angel will provide learning management technologies for use with educational programs from Harcourt School Publishers and Holt, Rinehart and Winston.
Complete details have not yet been revealed. Angel is the developer of the Angel LMS, a learning management system designed for both K-12 and higher ed. The company said it will provide this LMS for use with "key" Harcourt programs, but how and in what form the LMS will be integrated into the programs remains to be seen.

Related links


Epic's blended BTEC in Positive Behavioural Support

Epic, the leading e-learning company, and Bro Morgannwg NHS Trust have been working together to create a blended solution for their course in Positive Behavioural Support (PBS). The course is for support workers who provide care for people with learning disabilities and challenging behaviour. The course is accredited by BTEC at Advanced Certificate level.

Related link


It is about the teaching and learning!


This past week Cheryl Oakes had the good fortune to spend the day in 7th grade language arts classes to assist with the introduction of ibooks and NeoOffice to our students.

Source: TechLEARNING
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