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Knowledge manager vs. dispenser of knowledge
After writing the last post, I kept thinking about what I had written. We live in an age of near exponential information growth. While we are obviously still experts within a few fields of knowledge,...
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The Connected Social Me I Never Knew About
Ah, time to blog again for my Learning Theories and Instruction class. This week’s assignment is called Fitting the Pieces Together. As part of the process of fitting learning theory and instruction...
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Time to Blog again!
It’s been a while since I have posted anything here. Actually, it has been more than a while. I had every intention of continuing my posts here. The best of intentions …. At least for the next...
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Distance Learning’s Past Present and Future
For this week’s WaldenU assignment I am reflecting on the evolution of distance learning, and its potential future. Initially, I was taken a back by the assignment, because I failed to understand the...
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Selecting Distance Learning Technologies
When you are working on your degree in instructional design, you spend a fair amount of time explaining to people exactly what it is you are learning. I had a couple of those of conversations today....
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The Impact of OpenCourseWare
I believe OpenCourseWare (OCW) has tremendous potential to democratize education across the globe. The movement was started by the University of Tübingen in 1999...
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Converting Face-to-Face Instruction to Distance Learning
The conversion of traditional face-to-face instruction is not as simple as scanning materials into PDF documents. The success of online and blended classes requires extensive front-end planning...
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The future of distance learning?
I came to distance learning out of circumstance. A full-time job and family simply did not allow me the time to attend traditional face-to-face classes at one of the many fine local universities. So...
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Project Closure and Analysis
Allen and Hardin (2008) note that there is a temptation for a project team to celebrate the conclusion of a project without adequate reflection on its strengths and weaknesses. This was the case with...
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What is the best way to communicate with team members?
For this post I have been asked to view a piece of multimedia that illustrates a message being communicated as email, voicemail, and face-to-face conversation. The intent of the message is to request...
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Building online learning communities
Shana Tova! Glad you could make it to my blog. Today’s blog is about online learning communities. Engaging learners in instruction is not a new teaching strategy (Conrad & Donaldson, 2011)....
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Essentials in Setting up an Online Course
As both a teacher and a student, I am very much a fan of teachable moments and experiential learning. Some of my best teaching and learning has occurred this way. A student may ask a tangential...
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The Impact of Technology on Distance Learning
The platform you use choose for delivering online instruction is going to be critical to shaping the learning experience of students. Content management software (system) offers the equivalent to a...
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Are Cheating and Plagiarism a Problem? Is there are Solution?
Cheating and plagiarism have been around since earliest human times. As long as there is something at stake, we will look for any advantage we can find. If you doubt the veracity of that statement,...
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Sample Discussion Posting
As WaldenU students we all know the value well-crafted discussion prompts can have on engaging students deeply in their learning. In the process of completing this assignment I created a sample...
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