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eLearn: Best Practices - Discussion Management Tips for Online Educators
eLearn: Best Practices - Discussion Management Tips for Online Educators
Tips for online facilitators, especially relevant for those used to teaching in a physical classroom who are moving online. Good practical stuff here like saving some of your best stories to re-energize students when motivation is lagging late in the course and preparing discussion questions and replies in advance.
Imported from Diigo#education#highered#discussion#teaching#elearning
·elearnmag.acm.org·
eLearn: Best Practices - Discussion Management Tips for Online Educators
Cool Cat Teacher Blog: Group Following Educators on Twitter: How to Get Beginners Started
Cool Cat Teacher Blog: Group Following Educators on Twitter: How to Get Beginners Started
Vicki Davis' explanation of the TweepML educators list she created based on Jane Hart's 100 learning professionals to follow. This gives you an easy way to follow a bunch of educators and e-learning people without having to manually add each person.
Imported from Diigo#twitter#education#elearning
·coolcatteacher.blogspot.com·
Cool Cat Teacher Blog: Group Following Educators on Twitter: How to Get Beginners Started
The Bamboo Project Blog: Autonomy, Mastery and Purpose
The Bamboo Project Blog: Autonomy, Mastery and Purpose
Interesting ideas about intrinsic motivation for both managers and instructional designers. Rather than rewards, instructional design should focus on motivating learners through autonomy, mastery, & performance.
<p>Rewards actually impede our problem-solving ability because they cause us to restrict our consideration of other ideas and to focus on only one or two ways to solve the problem.&nbsp; As one of the studies Dan references discovered,<strong> "once the task called for even<span style="text-decoration: underline;"> rudimentary cognitive skill</span>, <em>(my emphasis)</em>&nbsp; a larger reward led to poorer performance." </strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial;">In a nutshell, rewards work for tasks where you don't have to think. As soon as you have to engage in any kind of thinking, rewards STOP WORKING. </span></strong></p>
Imported from Diigo#motivation#instructionaldesign#problemsolving
·michelemartin.typepad.com·
The Bamboo Project Blog: Autonomy, Mastery and Purpose
GDocBackup (fhtino)
GDocBackup (fhtino)
Open source Google Docs backup tool. It checks whether the Google Docs file already exists on your computer and if it's an older version and only downloads a backup copy if needed.
Imported from Diigo#opensource#tools
·gs.fhtino.it·
GDocBackup (fhtino)
Presentation Zen: 10 Tips on how to think like a designer
Presentation Zen: 10 Tips on how to think like a designer
Tips that can apply to instructional design, graphic design, web design, etc. They are broad, but it's helpful to have these kinds of ideas articulated clearly rather than being something that people do but can't explain. I especially like "Obsess about ideas and not tools."
Imported from Diigo#design
·presentationzen.com·
Presentation Zen: 10 Tips on how to think like a designer
A review of research on professional learning communities: What do we know?
A review of research on professional learning communities: What do we know?

Like the title says, a research review on PLCs, synthesizing results from 10 articles.

  • All research supported the idea that learning communities change teaching practice, although not all articles were specific about what changes took place.
  • In one study, teachers in PLCs developed more student-centered classrooms. Some other studies discussed specific teaching strategies used as a result of PLCs.
  • All studies showed a change in school culture through "collaboration, focus on student learning, teacher authority, and continuous teacher learning."
  • All 6 studies that looked at student achievement found that student learning improved. However, this was only seen when the focus of collaboration was student learning and not just working together.
  • Their conclusion: "The focus of a PLC should be developing teachers’ “knowledge of practice” around the issue of student learning"
  • "...working collaboratively is the process not the goal of a PLC. The goal is enhanced student achievement."
Imported from Diigo#plc#education#learning#research#community
·nsrfharmony.org·
A review of research on professional learning communities: What do we know?