Part of my day job involves following trends and predicting what might happen in the future of online education. Pretty risky business – I remember ten years ago when one article predicted that all colleges would one day have at least one class delivered online through AOL. A-O-Who? Do they still exist?
But despite the potential [...]
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Predicting the Future is a Risky Business
April 27th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Distance Education, Web 2.0
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Online Translators
April 10th, 2010 · No Comments · Resources, Tools, Web 2.0
Online translation is quite different from traditional translation. I note the tools I am using: Google Translator Toolkit (you need a gmail account to get on), Google Translator in two forms, Leo, the online dictionary containing a grammar site, dictionary definitions, and a corpus that I am using, and http://www.google.de (to [...]
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Mobility initiative?
March 17th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Active Learning, Authoring, Composition, Learning Management Systems, Tools, Video, Web 2.0
Does anyone know if there is a mobility initiative at UTA? Or does OIT have plans for a mobility initiative?
I’m torn between buying a class set of the iTouch or the iPhone for my Computers and Fiction Writing class and would welcome advice. Might OIT support either? Any sign of daLite lecterns or other kinds [...]
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Adding Value and Battling Staleness in Online Classes
February 22nd, 2010 · 5 Comments · Resources, Tools, Web 2.0
Think back to some of the best courses you took during college. What made those courses so great for you? Well, other than the ones that were an easy A – what made them interesting to you over other courses? Probably one factor was an interesting instructor. Many instructors like to just read from the [...]
Digital Texts in the Composition Classroom, Feb 25th
February 20th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Authoring, Composition, Free, Multimedia, Resources, Tools, Video, Web 2.0, Workshops, YouTube
Early adopters find ways to teach complex concepts, methods and software flying by the seat of our pants to be sure, but buoyed by much early trial and error experience acquired from having taught ourselves. For someone like me, whose field is digital media, I have made that seat-of-the-pants stuff my specialty, and, as a [...]
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