Distance Education for ACPE

Connecting through the Web

Jan Humphreys&

Britt Watwood

Outline

• Defining “Distance Education”

• Jan’s Use of Blackboard

Technology • Show of hands:– eMail? – Cellphones?– iPod?– Flickr account?– YouTube account?– Blog?– Twitter? – Delicious account?– Google Reader?– FaceBook?– Avatar?

Distance Education

How is the web

changing where and

how collaboratio

n takes place?

The Early WWW

• Web as destination (surf)•One-Way

• Web experience dominated by searching / finding /reading (content collection)

• HTML coding skills a must for publishing

Web 2.0

• The read / write web• Generative web-based tools

• Blogs, wikis, podcasting, RSS

• Anyone can publish• HTML coding skills not necessary

• Web creation and interaction• MashUps• Social• SlideShare

Open Community of Practice

The Social Web & PLEs• Web-based tools for

collaboration and social exchange / interaction

• Personal Learning Environments (PLEs)

• Web experience becoming a customized learning network (interconnected PLEs)

• Online courses• Top down design• Advent of LMS

• Open courseware• Collaborative

learning• Web 2.0• Social networking

Formal & Informal Online Learning Environments

Learner-Centered Teaching

• Weimer• Tagg

Metaphor for

How Can One Use Bb – F2F or Online

• Chickering, A. W., and Gamson, Z. F., Seven Principles for

Good Practice in Undergraduate Education, 1983.

– Student-Faculty Contact– Cooperation Among

Students– Active Learning– Prompt Feedback– Time on Task– High Expectations– Multiple Ways of Learning

Blackboard Course

Syllabus

Evaluation Guidelines

Scrolling Down to Final Eval

Discussion Board

Discussion Forums

Group Dynamic Discussion

Gender Difference Discussion

Comm Patterns Discussion

Where I used to find information?

Google's share of all searches was 65% in April 2007, an increase of 7% versus April 2006.

(…and still do…)

Feeds Into Google Reader

• News Feeds

• Journals• Blogs

• Delicious Network• Technology Websites• Ning Forums

Social P L E

P L EP L EP L EP L ENews FeedsNews Feeds

BlogsBlogs

Flickr

Conferences

Conferences BooksBooks

Em

ail

iGoogle (Customizable)

Twitter

delicious

GoogleReader

Google Sites

Secure Group Website

Web Conferencing

• Skype• ooVoo• Wimba Live Classroom

What Does This MeanTo CPE ?

Questions ?