This podcast reviews the scale of online higher education in the United States. As more colleges offer online courses and more students enroll in them, will perceptions change? Links mentioned in this podcast include: The Sloan Consortium (Home Page) The Sloan Consortium (Publications: Survey Reports) The Sloan Consortium Report: "Growing by Degrees: Online Education in…
I can point to a few pivotal moments and people who impacted my future direction. I’ve written about it before. In 2005, I was antsy to try something new. I grabbed a copy of the NYU continuing education catalog and signed up for a couple of courses, including an instructional design class. It happened to…
One of the struggles with online learning is finding tools to create, publish and share text based media within the online learning environment. Here are just some of the many problems: Creating: Most of the written text that is created by students and teachers is MS Word based. While it is the best known text…
I just uploaded the final version of my paper (see attached Participant Experiences in an Informal twitter.com Sub-network) accepted for presentation at the AACE E-Learn 2010 Conference. I opted for the Virtual Presentation option, so I won’t be heading to Orlando to be there f2f. I have also attached the narrated PPT slides that are…
Not the most earth shattering news (by any stretch), but I found it interesting that the word "aggregator" is not in the Google spell check on my tool bar or in the Flock blog posting tool. The only reason this is worthy of 5 seconds of thought is that it highlights the fact that the…
Tinymap.net is an awesome mapping tool. Based on Google Maps, you search to pinpoint a location, annotate it, add waypoints / points of interest, save it to its own URL, share it, and add optional password protection … and best of all … it works!