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Online Education

• Any experience?

• Advantages & Disadvantages?

• Research findings?

• What skills or knowledge required?

• Does teacher role change?

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The Range of Online Experience

A course with some online elements

A hybrid course

A course taught entirely online

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Basic Elements

• Instructional Methods (knowledge & experience)

• Human Interface (Art & Psychology)

• Reliability & Interactivity (computer skills)

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Main Difference?

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online

• Nonverbal Communication does not exist. (smile, head shake)

• You can’t tell if they’re learning

• You cannot estimate the scope of the content like a book. (how big is each chapter)

• You cannot estimate the quality of the course (publisher, the cover quality)

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You need some computer skills

• Basic computer terminology

• Basic troubleshooting

• Email & attachments

• Communication technology & tools

• Search tools

• Web page development

• Advanced Multimedia development and Interactivity ?

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Advanced Multimedia skills?

• Subject (science or social studies)

• Your instructional design (individual or collaborative learning)

• Hybrid or online

• Level of learning (informative or conceptual learning)

• Availability of free interactive sources

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Changes your role

• Makes you more a facilitator or moderator than the expert from whom all knowledge flows.

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Your notes

• Your notes and online material become very important

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How about student role?

• Students must be motivated. 

• Balancing the demands of work, learning and family

• Self Directed Learning (knowing where to find info

• Time management (Requires discipline)

• Communication skills

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What should we do about online assessment?

• No observation = Plagiarism

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Misconceptions

Myths

Facts

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True False

• On-line syllabus should include tasks that must be performed online

• Some tasks should be done in a lab, in a room or office, in a field or library

(example, online course in

Science, music, nursing or surgery)

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True False

Everything you need could be found online

Remember not everything is online yet

In fact the majority of resources are not online

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True False

Students need to stay online for a long time to find info.

• Requiring students stay online for a long time (hunting for online material) has proved to be counterproductive.

• Example, some useless webquest activities

Instead

Use the web to publish or for collaboration

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True False

Technical support is available for the teacher and students.

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True False

• Interactivity = interaction with the instructor

• Interactivity = interaction with other students

• Interactivity = with computers (Games)

• Interactivity = Animations

• Interactivity = buttons or navigation

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Instructional interactivity

• Interaction that actively stimulates the learner’s mind to do those something that improves ability and readiness to perform effectively

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True False

Facilitator = help desk

• Facilitator = answering machine

• Facilitator = spoon feeder

• Facilitator = Nobody

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Remember filmstrips?

I used to look forward to Wednesday afternoons when our fifth-grade teacher would dim the lights,

pull down the screen and advance the projector to an electronic beep. All the students loved filmstrips.

For the next hour, we didn’t have to think.

Teachers liked them too. With arms folded in the back of the class, they didn’t have to teach.

 

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True False

• Face 2 Face learning is superior to online learning.

Fact http://www.nosignificantdifference.org

Why?

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Why?

• there are good classroom classes and lousy classroom classes.

• The quality depends on

the teacher,

the course,

the attentiveness and interest of the students.

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Research Trend

• Can distance learning be as good as classroom learning”

• How technology can help?

• “Can technology help make online learning even better than traditional instruction?”

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True False

• Online education does not allow important teacher-to-student and student-to-student interaction.

• Have you ever been in a college lecture hall?

• Everyone is connected and everyone is encouraged to participate. Students get customized instruction and one-on-one teacher feedback.

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More personal attention

• Faculty can concentrate less on delivering lectures and devote more time to interacting personally with students reviewing assignments, advising, tutoring and answering questions.

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True False

• Online learning is only good for certain types of students.

• Distance education has evolved to the point where it’s so easy and intuitive that almost anyone can benefit from it.

• Online learning is the biggest equalizer of all.• Education is no longer a one-time event that

ends at age 18 or 22.

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True False

• Online learning is only good for certain types of subjects.

certain sciences that require expensive

calibrated equipment or laboratory equipment

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True False

• Employers don’t value web-based learning as highly as traditional classroom learning

• As the number of people earning online degrees grows, more employers are recognizing their value

• It is less and less of the case today

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True False

• Online learning is a quick and easy way to get a degree.

• These programs are not accredited

• Online courses may give you more flexibility than traditional classes, but they require just as much work.

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True False

• Accredited schools always offer a good education.

• NCATE and other six nationally recognized regional accrediting agencies.

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Accreditation

• Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC)• Middle States Association of Schools and Colleges

(MSA)• Southern Association of Schools and Colleges (SACS)• Northwest Association of Schools and Colleges

(NWCCU)• New England Association of Schools and Colleges

(NEASC)• North Central Association Commission on Accreditation

and School Improvement(NCA)

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True False

• Online degrees are expensive:

• small state schools

• enrolling in a non-U.S.-based school

• financial aid and tuition assistance

• save money on gas and car maintenance

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True False

• The Credits You Earn Online Won't Transfer to Traditional Colleges

• If you earn your degree at accredited online institution, your credits are equivalent

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True False

• You’ll Never Set Foot on a College Campus

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An Issue to Consider

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Computer support?

• Programmers or network specialists who don’t know much about application programs?

• Lab administrators who don’t know what a web site can provide?

• Teachers who don’t know technology

• Schools who don’t trust technology

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You

• Who is a person who knows teachers’ language and the computer language?

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