1. Online Education Any experience? Advantages & Disadvantages?
Research findings?
What skills or knowledge required?
Does teacher role change?

2. The Range of Online Experience
A course with some online elements
A hybrid course
A course taught entirely online

3. Basic Elements Instructional Methods (knowledge & experience)
Human Interface (Art & Psychology)
Reliability & Interactivity (computer skills)

4. Main Difference?

5. online Nonverbal Communication does not exist. (smile, head shake)
You can’t tell if they’re learning
You cannot estimate the scope of the content like a book. (how big is each chapter)
You cannot estimate the quality of the course (publisher, the cover quality)

6. You need some computer skills
Basic computer terminology
Basic troubleshooting
& attachments
Communication technology & tools
Search tools
Web page development
Advanced Multimedia development and Interactivity ?

7. Advanced Multimedia skills?
Subject (science or social studies)
Your instructional design (individual or collaborative learning)
Hybrid or online
Level of learning (informative or conceptual learning)
Availability of free interactive sources

8. Changes your role
Makes you more a facilitator or moderator than the expert from whom all knowledge flows.

9. Your notes
Your notes and online material become very important

10. How about student role? Students must be motivated.
Balancing the demands of work, learning and family
Self Directed Learning (knowing where to find info
Time management (Requires discipline)
Communication skills

11. What should we do about online assessment?
No observation = Plagiarism

12. Misconceptions Myths Facts

13. True False
On-line syllabus should include tasks that must be performed online
Some tasks should be done in a lab, in a room or office, in a field or library
(example, online course in
Science, music, nursing or surgery)

14. Everything you need could be found online
True False
Everything you need could be found online
Remember not everything is online yet
In fact the majority of resources are not online

15. Students need to stay online for a long time to find info.
True False
Students need to stay online for a long time to find info.
Requiring students stay online for a long time (hunting for online material) has proved to be counterproductive.
Example, some useless webquest activities
Instead
Use the web to publish or for collaboration

16. True False
Technical support is available for the teacher and students.

17. True False Interactivity = interaction with the instructor
Interactivity = interaction with other students
Interactivity = with computers (Games)
Interactivity = Animations
Interactivity = buttons or navigation

18. Instructional interactivity
Interaction that actively stimulates the learner’s mind to do those something that improves ability and readiness to perform effectively

19. True False Facilitator = help desk Facilitator = answering machine
Facilitator = spoon feeder
Facilitator = Nobody

20. I used to look forward to Wednesday afternoons
Remember filmstrips?
I used to look forward to Wednesday afternoons
when our fifth-grade teacher would dim the lights,
pull down the screen and advance the projector to an electronic beep.
All the students loved filmstrips.
For the next hour, we didn’t have to think.
Teachers liked them too. With arms folded in the back of the
class, they didn’t have to teach.

21. True False Face 2 Face learning is superior to online learning.
Fact
Why?

22. Why? there are good classroom classes and lousy classroom classes.
The quality depends on
the teacher,
the course,
the attentiveness and interest of the students.

23. Research Trend Can distance learning be as good as classroom learning”
How technology can help?
“Can technology help make online learning even better than traditional instruction?”

24. True False
Online education does not allow important teacher-to-student and student-to-student interaction.
Have you ever been in a college lecture hall?
Everyone is connected and everyone is encouraged to participate. Students get customized instruction and one-on-one teacher feedback.

25. More personal attention
Faculty can concentrate less on delivering lectures and devote more time to interacting personally with students reviewing assignments, advising, tutoring and answering questions.

26. True False Online learning is only good for certain types of students.
Distance education has evolved to the point where it’s so easy and intuitive that almost anyone can benefit from it.
Online learning is the biggest equalizer of all.
Education is no longer a one-time event that ends at age 18 or 22.

27. True False Online learning is only good for certain types of subjects.
certain sciences that require expensive
calibrated equipment or laboratory equipment

28. True False
Employers don’t value web-based learning as highly as traditional classroom learning
As the number of people earning online degrees grows, more employers are recognizing their value
It is less and less of the case today

29. True False Online learning is a quick and easy way to get a degree.
These programs are not accredited
Online courses may give you more flexibility than traditional classes, but they require just as much work.

30. True False Accredited schools always offer a good education.
NCATE and other six nationally recognized regional accrediting agencies.

31. Accreditation Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC)
Middle States Association of Schools and Colleges (MSA)
Southern Association of Schools and Colleges (SACS)
Northwest Association of Schools and Colleges (NWCCU)
New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC)
North Central Association Commission on Accreditation and School Improvement(NCA)

32. True False Online degrees are expensive: small state schools
enrolling in a non-U.S.-based school
financial aid and tuition assistance
save money on gas and car maintenance

33. True False
The Credits You Earn Online Won't Transfer to Traditional Colleges
If you earn your degree at accredited online institution, your credits are equivalent

34. True False
You’ll Never Set Foot on a College Campus

35. An Issue to Consider

36. Computer support?
Programmers or network specialists who don’t know much about application programs?
Lab administrators who don’t know what a web site can provide?
Teachers who don’t know technology
Schools who don’t trust technology

37. You
Who is a person who knows teachers’ language and the computer language?