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June 23, 2009

http://onlinesapiens.wordpress.com/2009/06/22/science-labs-for-online-scie

Examples from faculty teaching online science laboratory courses.
Universities using lab kits and other methods to offer lab sciences at a distance, University of Arkansas Distance Education Task Force Blog
Free online physics, chemistry, biology, earth science and math simulations, PhET project at the University of Colorado.
Home Dissection Kits and More, Inside Higher Ed
Shell and Tube [...]

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June 19, 2009

http://onlinesapiens.wordpress.com/2009/06/18/how-to-reduce-the-dropout-ra

It seems to be safe to make an argument that there are at least two important factors that influence adult learners to get motivated or de-motivated to learn via distance education options. The two factors are:
1. Adult learners are goal-oriented; therefore, distance education programs should provide learning environments where they can [...]

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June 18, 2009

http://onlinesapiens.wordpress.com/2009/06/17/planning-distance-learning-t

This article provides decision makers with 32 trends that affect distance learning and thus enable them to plan accordingly. The trends are organized into categories as they pertain to students and enrollment, faculty members, academics, technology, the economy, and distance learning. All the trends were identified during an extensive review of current literature in the [...]

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May 27, 2009

http://onlinesapiens.wordpress.com/2009/05/27/example-of-student-motivatio

Great post from Pat Hensley
I always set up the first couple of weeks with lots of small assignments that I know the students can complete successfully. At first, even they are surprised at these small successes. In fact, I know they are scared to believe in them and expect that this was just a fluke. [...]

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May 12, 2009

http://onlinesapiens.wordpress.com/2009/05/12/letters-to-online-course-aut

Jeff Borden blogged about how not to build an online course. These are 2 “must read posts” for online teachers and college administrators.
I saw one of your courses the other day. Whoops! It’s hard to know where to start in trying to explain the numerous problems I saw, but I’ll try to [...]

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April 28, 2009

http://onlinesapiens.wordpress.com/2009/04/28/backup-the-web-sites-you-use

Lisa M. Lane posted:
Then I got fancier with my History of England and Western Civ classes. I linked out to websites. I thought, what was the point of a class being web-based if there weren’t any hyperlinks? So I linked to informative, sometimes fascinating, websites from every lecture page. Then, when I recorded [...]

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April 27, 2009

http://onlinesapiens.wordpress.com/2009/04/27/related-posts-my-twitter-con

This is a list of Twitter Conversations I had using the Twitter Open Messaging tool:
- Twitter Conversation: Introducing New Learning 2.0 Tools in your Organization
- Using Twitter and Delicious to Teach About Videoconferencing and Online Community Management
- Using Twitter to Teach How to Find New LinkedIn Connections
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http://onlinesapiens.wordpress.com/2009/04/26/twitter-conversation-using-n

This is my Twitter conversation I had with my friend Gabriela Sellart about the resistance from students to using new Learning 2.0 tools.
Gabriela asked:
gsellart: how do you convince your students to write directly on the wiki, instead of copying/pasting from word?about 2 hours ago from TwitterFox
emapey2: @gsellart They want to have a copy and [...]

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April 21, 2009

http://onlinesapiens.wordpress.com/2009/04/20/getting-prepared-for-the-cor

I have reviewed my blog and selected the Onlinesapiens posts more relevant to the Corporate Learntrends Online Conversations Event:
- My PLE for the Corporate Learntrends Online Conversations
- Enterprise 2.0 Examples and Successful Stories
- How to Introduce Innovative eLearning Ideas In Your Organization
- Marketing Elearning in your Organization
- Objections To Using [...]

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April 20, 2009

http://onlinesapiens.wordpress.com/2009/04/20/my-ple-for-the-corporate-lea

This is my start page, my Personal Learning Environment, PLE, my list of aggregated resources for the Learntrends event. It is a real example of a PLE, Personal Learning Environment.
For 24 hours starting April 21 Learntrends will host a series of online conversations on boosting the performance of organizations through learning.
- Learntrends April 2009 [...]

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