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Distance Education for ACPE
Connecting through the Web
Jan Humphreys&
Britt Watwood
Outline
• Defining “Distance Education”
• Jan’s Use of Blackboard
Technology • Show of hands:– eMail? – Cellphones?– iPod?– Flickr account?– YouTube account?– Blog?– Twitter? – Delicious account?– Google Reader?– FaceBook?– Avatar?
Distance Education
How is the web
changing where and
how collaboratio
n takes place?
The Early WWW
• Web as destination (surf)•One-Way
• Web experience dominated by searching / finding /reading (content collection)
• HTML coding skills a must for publishing
Web 2.0
• The read / write web• Generative web-based tools
• Blogs, wikis, podcasting, RSS
• Anyone can publish• HTML coding skills not necessary
• Web creation and interaction• MashUps• Social• SlideShare
Open Community of Practice
The Social Web & PLEs• Web-based tools for
collaboration and social exchange / interaction
• Personal Learning Environments (PLEs)
• Web experience becoming a customized learning network (interconnected PLEs)
• Online courses• Top down design• Advent of LMS
• Open courseware• Collaborative
learning• Web 2.0• Social networking
Formal & Informal Online Learning Environments
Learner-Centered Teaching
• Weimer• Tagg
Metaphor for
How Can One Use Bb – F2F or Online
• Chickering, A. W., and Gamson, Z. F., Seven Principles for
Good Practice in Undergraduate Education, 1983.
– Student-Faculty Contact– Cooperation Among
Students– Active Learning– Prompt Feedback– Time on Task– High Expectations– Multiple Ways of Learning
Blackboard Course
Syllabus
Evaluation Guidelines
Scrolling Down to Final Eval
Discussion Board
Discussion Forums
Group Dynamic Discussion
Gender Difference Discussion
Comm Patterns Discussion
Where I used to find information?
Google's share of all searches was 65% in April 2007, an increase of 7% versus April 2006.
(…and still do…)
Feeds Into Google Reader
• News Feeds
• Journals• Blogs
• Delicious Network• Technology Websites• Ning Forums
Social P L E
P L EP L EP L EP L ENews FeedsNews Feeds
BlogsBlogs
Flickr
Conferences
Conferences BooksBooks
Em
ail
iGoogle (Customizable)
delicious
GoogleReader
Google Sites
Secure Group Website
Web Conferencing
• Skype• ooVoo• Wimba Live Classroom
What Does This MeanTo CPE ?
Questions ?