Learning Curve

Quality Matters

Wed, 21 May 2008 08:32:00 EST

On Friday, May 17th, Instructional Services introduced faculty and staff to Quality Matters. Quality Matters is a peer review rubric built upon an ongoing survey of research literature on effective online and hybrid course instruction. The rubric can be used to reflect upon and improve online instruction as well as...

Students Today

Fri, 09 May 2008 17:31:00 EST

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Here they come: 230,000 more students to Ohio system

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 10:18:00 EST

Today&amp;amp;amp;amp;#x0027;s Dispatch has an article about Ohio&amp;amp;amp;amp;#x0027;s plan to increase college enrollment by 230,000. Online learning is central: The state plan outlines many ways that &amp;amp;amp;amp;quot;nontraditional&amp;amp;amp;amp;quot; students can build basic academic and technical certificates and job-skills classes that would count toward a college degree. And it requires the two- and...

More online learning profiled on NPR

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 09:21:00 EST

This is from Wednesday, March 26 Morning Edition. What caught ny ear was the online language learning, something that I think has great potential. ...

Your talking class

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 08:45:00 EST

Here is a service that converts uploaded documents, cut and paste text, a URL or an RSS feed into spoken words. You have a choice of voices and can embed the audio into your page. (If only you could also embed the talking avatars they have on their site.) My...

Carrying on the work of Dr. David Litt

Tue, 18 Dec 2007 10:56:00 EST

This week we lost a dear friend and colleague as Dave Litt, Coordinator, for Columbus State&amp;amp;amp;#x0027;s Sports and Exercise Science Program, passed away on Sunday December 16th. As President Moeller stated in her message to the campus: &amp;amp;amp;quot;He impacted the lives of many students and colleagues and made significant contributions...

Preserve the learning power of eportfolios

Wed, 12 Dec 2007 08:50:00 EST

Trent Batson has a nice riff on the confusion and dilution of eportfolios as learning tools in a recent Campus Technology article : The issue is not with accountability, but with conflating traditional assessment management systems and traditional ePortfolio approaches to teaching and learning -- replacing a learning tool with a...

National call to action for education

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 12:24:00 EST

From e School News : &amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;quot;Three leading educational technology advocacy groups have banded together to release a position paper that makes an urgent case for why--and how--school leaders should integrate technology into instruction.&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;quot; &amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;nbsp;See the report: Maximizing the Impact: Why Technology Must Play a Pivotal Role in 21st Century Education...

Online learning profiled on NPR

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 08:51:00 EST

On Tuesday and Wendnesday of this week NPR Morning Edition ran two stories on online learning. Both were very well done. NPR did not dwell on the on the old &amp;amp;amp;amp;quot;is it good enough&amp;amp;amp;amp;quot; debate but focused, instead, on the changes and benefits online learning has brought to both learners...

Blogging Class

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 10:49:00 EST

This post contains slides and links used in the Intro to Blogging class I am teaching later today taught on November 27th. Participants will be using the comments area to share links to their own blogs. Below are copies of slides I used shared through the Slideshare online service. Below...