Authentic Activities in Online Education
Link to: Authentic Activities in Online Education
ref: Honebein
Link to: Authentic Activities in Online Education
ref: Honebein
As we kick off a new semester, the university where I teach hosted an AI webinar today under the heading of “Navigating the Brave New World of Generative AI in Higher Education.” It was an informative session that came from a position of what could be described as a resigned curiosity. No one was seeking…
The education conferences are starting in 2019, and today I received our new bookmarks that I’ll be handing out during booth duty. Even though we are a virtual organization and spend much of our programming teaching how to integrate technology, we’re going “old school” to drive home our mission to support literacy. On the front…
If you ever have to do any editing to a webpage or learning management system, you’ve probably found you need to take a peek “under the hood” at the HTML code. I do nearly every day, but I know next to nothing beyond the handful of edits I do when I need to embed a…
QUESTIONS: How can you build a sustainable business around giving away educational materials? How can you build a sustainable business model around giving away credentialed degrees? Should governments fund open education? Sustainable business model – start with a customer need: As I learned early on in my business courses, successful business models are based on…
Ben Hunt has a great web design site at WebDesignFromScratch.com. Geared for both the designer and non-designer (who just plays one on her Drupal site), the site points you to the direction of more simple and user friendly web site design using a lot of before and after web site redesigns. The site contains information…
This week and last, we have been discussing issues of structure in learning environments. Prof. Honebien observed that the degree of required structure within a learning environment is based on a) the learner's task and b) required scaffolding and that the standard of performance affects both. Here is my take away from his comments: Learner's…