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Higher Education is seeing exponential growth in the field of online and blended teaching and learning. This EDUCAUSE constituent group is geared at Directors, Coordinators and/or Administrators of Online and Blended Learning programs and provides a space for the exchange of ideas, tips and information related to excellent practices and policies, quality control, staffing and structure, as well as management of support services, faculty development, and Learning Management Systems. This group meets at the EDUCAUSE annual conference and uses the electronic discussion list to discuss issues throughout the year.
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Hi Lori,
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Peg,
We use the IDEA system for all end of course student evaluations and the IDEA Center has done research on student ratings in traditional vs. online courses. It is specific to the questions on the IDEA student evaluation but they did find that student ratings for online courses are similar to that of online courses. The research report is here and it’s worth reading even if your institution doesn’t use IDEA: http://www.theideacenter.org/sites/default/files/Research%20Report%207.pdf.
Elizabeth Smith
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Associate Director, Center for Faculty Development
...Good morning,
Butler University plans to launch new fully online graduate programs as well as offering select online undergraduate courses in our summer sessions. If your institution offers online programs, would you mind sharing some information with me?
1. Are tuition rates for online courses the same or different as your face to face courses? Do tuition rates differ according to the semester in which the online courses are offered? (Spring, fall, summer)
2. Do you compensate your faculty differently for teaching an online course and/or do you adjust their teaching load in any way when offering an online course?
3. Do you compensate or...
Dear Colleagues,
The Virtual College at Miami Dade College has an open position – Director of Technology. To apply, visit www.mdc.edu , there is a “Jobs at MDC” quick link on the left side of the homepage.
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We’re currently evaluating different web conference/online collaboration software platforms for distance education and hybrid online courses. So far we’ve been looking at GoToMeeting/Training, Adobe Connect, Blackboard Collaborate, and WebEx. Just curious what other schools are using and/or if you are using something else.
Thanks!
Kevin Donahue
Kevin Donahue
Assistant Director, eLearning Technologies
Villanova University • 800 Lancaster Ave
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Technology Services Building
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Villanova, PA 19085
t 610.519.6606 •
f 610.519.5090
kevin.donahue@villanova.edu
• ...
***This message is being cross posted to several Educause constituent groups, for which I apologize***
Good afternoon!
As I am sure is true with others, we are concerned about student outcomes, as well as the declining numbers of students acquiring full complements of textbooks due to their cost through the bookstore, which in our instance is the sole vehicle provided for students using Financial Aid. In order to facilitate the distribution of a larger number of materials to all of our students, we have been exploring a number of options, including acquiring digital course content either directly from the vendor/publisher and embedding the cost into a course fee or other channels and participating in a consortium of institutions to develop Open Educational Resources. However, we appear to...
Please do continue this on the listserv, as the discussion has widespread appeal. Heck, you’ve even got this lurker chiming in.
Robert Wright, Ph.D.
Manager, Media Services
UNT Health Science Center
817-735-2678
From: The EDUCAUSE Blended and Online Learning Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:BLEND-ONLINE@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU]
On Behalf Of Christina Mark
Sent: Monday, April 15, 2013 8:48 AM
To: BLEND-ONLINE@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU
Subject: Re: [BLEND-ONLINE] Instructional Designers--do they always work in the LMS?
...
Hello,
The University of Kansas is looking to fill the following two positions. I’d appreciate your sharing this information with anyone who may be interested.
Educational Support Technologist
Position Overview
This position is responsible for developing and delivering workshops, documentation, and deskside coaching in support of educational technology tools, and other academic related services offered by the KU Information Technology (IT) Department. This position will work closely with the IT Client Consulting Manager, other Educational Technologists, KU IT Directors, key IT staff, and partners in the KU
Center for Online and Distance Learning and the Center for Teaching Excellence to identify and develop...
LTMOOC is a collaborative course for language teachers of all levels to discuss and gain a deeper understanding of emerging trends in blended teaching and learning of world languages, including the methodology, best practices, and practical application of the blended and online classroom. The course will facilitate discussion and development of ideas in a connectivist-style MOOC, inviting all course participants to contribute.
Instreamia founders Ryan and Scott Rapp have organized this...
I would be happy to hear more
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Or use PureText… It’s wonderful.
http://www.stevemiller.net/puretext/
Carine Ullom
Director, Office of Academic Technology
Ottawa University, Ottawa Online
1001 S. Cedar St. * Ottawa, KS 66067
carine.ullom@ottawa.edu * 785-248-2510
From: The EDUCAUSE Blended and Online Learning Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:BLEND-ONLINE@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU]
On Behalf Of Covello, Steve
Sent: Friday, March 22, 2013 3:25 PM
To:...
We’re currently evaluating different web conference/online collaboration software platforms for distance education and hybrid online courses. So far we’ve been looking at GoToMeeting/Training, Adobe Connect, Blackboard Collaborate, and WebEx. Just curious what other schools are using and/or if you are using something else.
Thanks!
Kevin Donahue
Kevin Donahue
Assistant Director, eLearning Technologies
Villanova University • 800 Lancaster Ave
•
Technology Services Building
•
Villanova, PA 19085
t 610.519.6606 •
f 610.519.5090
kevin.donahue@villanova.edu
• ...
Hello,
I’d be interested in hearing what other institutions are using for synchronous web conferencing/ teaching tools, and how they like what they have. We’ve been using Blackboard Collaborate (formerly Wimba) and it’s been a good system for us, albeit a little on the pricey side. Does anyone use a system that’s not strictly geared toward the higher ed market, such as Webex or GoToMeeting?
Thanks!
Kent
Kent Barclay
Associate Dean of Academic Technology
Endicott College
376 Hale St.
Beverly, MA 01915
978-232-2282
kbarclay@...
What resources do your faculty use to “observe” instructors and their online courses, as they would observe a F2F instructor and course? Often these observations are a regular part of a program review or one’s P&T process. Some faculty feel they don’t know how to observe an online course as they haven’t taken or taught one. I’ve found a smattering of rubrics at other institutions, but would like to get feedback from this group.
Thanks,
Scott
Scott Robison, Ph.D.
Director, Learning Technologies and Online Education
105 Lamson Learning Commons, MSC #47B
Plymouth State University
Plymouth, NH 03264
603.535.2262
HIGHER EDUCATION TEACHING & LEARNING ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE
JANUARY 13-15, 2013, ORLANDO
You are invited to submit a proposal for a presentation on emerging pedagogic or administrative technologies, approaches and issues in higher education. Although the meeting is structured into thematic tracks, we are open to the gamut of topics on new developments in higher education. This Higher Education Teaching & Learning Association conference is being held, January 13-15, 2013 in Orlando, in partnership with the University of Central Florida, whose campus will be its venue. A proceedings book of abstracts will be produced and best papers will be published in the HETL Review online journal.
Details are at: http://www.fctl.ucf.edu/hetl2013/ . Any...
Peg,
We use the IDEA system for all end of course student evaluations and the IDEA Center has done research on student ratings in traditional vs. online courses. It is specific to the questions on the IDEA student evaluation but they did find that student ratings for online courses are similar to that of online courses. The research report is here and it’s worth reading even if your institution doesn’t use IDEA: http://www.theideacenter.org/sites/default/files/Research%20Report%207.pdf.
Elizabeth Smith
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Associate Director, Center for Faculty Development
...Call for Presentations
for the 2013
Academic Communities of Practice: Learning and Engagement Outside the Classroom
NERCOMP SIG
The campus is rich with opportunities to learn outside of the classroom. Up to now flyers have been posted next to elevators to let people know of some of these events, people form ad-hoc groups to support their learning, and student clubs band together for a common purpose. Communities of Practice already exist in Academia! So, the question is, how do we best leverage technology, and how do we...
Dear Colleagues,
Apologies for the cross posting.
Our institution is currently in the process of revising our faculty certification and training required for all our faculty who will teach online. Currently, our training consists of synchronous LMS tool training (delivered via webinars) and an asynchronous online portion that requires, on average, two hours to complete.
After reviewing feedback from faculty and administration and researching certification programs at other institutions, we see there is a need for more robust preparation and training for our online faculty. Our goal is for this revamped training to be unique and innovative but also based on best practices, research, proven models, etc.
...Good morning,
Butler University plans to launch new fully online graduate programs as well as offering select online undergraduate courses in our summer sessions. If your institution offers online programs, would you mind sharing some information with me?
1. Are tuition rates for online courses the same or different as your face to face courses? Do tuition rates differ according to the semester in which the online courses are offered? (Spring, fall, summer)
2. Do you compensate your faculty differently for teaching an online course and/or do you adjust their teaching load in any way when offering an online course?
3. Do you compensate or...
Hello Fellow Listserv-ers,
I am seeking information on how faculty members are utilizing the dropbox feature of your current Learning Management System.
Our current LMS does not allow instructors to save marked up documents directly back to the LMS. Instructors like receiving and marking up papers online. However, the problem comes in returning papers to students. The process is not fluid; and has a host of issues.
· Requires the instructor to save graded documents to their computer.
· Graded papers need to be uploaded back into the LMS shared document library.
· Graded work cannot be securely...
Greetings all.
I’m writing to see if any of you know how your university or campus tracks online students in PeopleSoft, e.g. does a student select an online program upon application or are they defined as online students after they have been admitted and if so, how?
If you could point me to the right person to discuss this with, I’d greatly appreciate it. We are looking to do it differently here at University of Louisville so I want to see how others are doing this first.
Best regards,
Kristen
Kristen Brown
Assistant Director for Online Learning
Delphi Center for Teaching and...
Current Issue
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EDUCAUSE Institute
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Explore More
Explore EDUCAUSE professional development opportunities that match your career aspirations and desired level of time investment through our interactive online guide.
Employees of EDUCAUSE member institutions and organizations are invited to create individual profiles.
