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This is the link for my video on Online High Schools.
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Diane

Technology and Media for Distance Education

Technology and Media for Distance Education 

Static  

Collaboration 
  
Producing a video
   Sharing Files
   Creating a Pod Cast 

Communication  

Watching Video
   Reading Web page
   Listening to Pod Cast  

Content  

Videos
   Web Casts
   Pod Casts

Dynamic
  
Collaboration
   
Solving a game together
   Commenting on Blog
   Answering other students' questions on the discussion board

  Communication   

Blogs
   Wikis
   Discussion Board

  Content 
  
Mind Tools-creating knowledge by manipulation of the technology
   Multi-User Environments
   Virtual Simulations

 I couldn't figure out how to move my concept map for Technology and Media for Distance Education over to my blog so I decided to use color and font type to display it.

When thinking about where I am on the “static-dynamic continuum.” I think that I am more toward the dynamic part, but with that said I feel that I still have a lot to learn to make it fully to the dynamic side. This blog has been new to me and so is the video that we are creating, but I still am more than just watching videos as I like to learn by taking the technology available to me and constructing new meaning from it. I love to learn through the use of technology and not just watching the videos so that is why I feel that I am more toward the dynamic part than the static part of the continuum.

The Three Cs of Online Learning

The Three Cs of Online Learning

CCC

Collaboration

Student to Student

Student to Instructor

Building Community

Content

Students Developing Knowledge

Instructor Developed and Guided

Constructivist Content

Communication

Interaction

Student to Student

Student to Instructor

This was the only way I could make my graphic organizer work since I could not copy and paste Inspiration into the Blog .

I see that students working with other students can lead to collaboration along with the students and instructor working together, which can build a community. The content is developed by the instructor to help lead the students to constructing their own ideas and learning with the instructor guiding the students on the side. By having the interaction between the students and the instructor then through communication then the online learning community can be built successfully.

Assessing Collaborative Efforts

Assessing participation in a collaborative learning community

There are several ways to assess participation in a collaborative learning community it can be by the students’ peers through discussions, by contributions to the activities that are assigned, through authentic assessment, and graded or marked assignments. I feel that the instructor should use all of the above methods of assessments to measure the learning of the students.

Collaboration of students

If a student does not want to network or collaborate with other students in the learning community then he or she should let the instructor know his or her issues with networking and collaborating then the instructor should work with the student to work out his concerns. If the other students know of the student’s concerns then they could encourage him or her to work with them. If the instructor can still assess the student’s work then he or she shouldn’t have a problem with his or her assessment plan. If communication is in place in the learning community then maybe collaboration can built in the learning community with the reluctant student.  

References:

Palloff, R. M., & Pratt, K. (2005). Collaborating online: Learning together in community. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

Palloff, R. M., & Pratt, K. (2007). Building online learning communities: Effective strategies for the virtual classroom. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass

Siemens, G. (2010). Assessment of Collaborative Learning. Retrieved from

http://sylvan.live.ecollege.com/ec/crs/default.learn?CourseID=4715750&Survey=1&47=3096178&ClientNodeID=984645&coursenav=1&bhcp=1

Siemens, G. (2010). Learning Communities. Retrieved from http://sylvan.live.ecollege.com/ec/crs/default.learn?CourseID=4199700&Survey=1&47=6912498&ClientNodeID=984645&coursenav=1&bhcp=1

Story Board

I will begin with an introduction, then I will have different clips of videos from both students, teachers, and others form Kaplan that run their on line high school program discussing online high schools and programs for high school students. The students will explain how the programs have helped them complete their high school education. The teachers will discuss what they have seen happen in the online high programs with different students. I will close the video by introducing the guest speaker for the online high school conference.

Elements of Distance Education Diffusion

George Siemens discussed collaborative interaction in his video and I agree with him that distance education has increased the collaborative interaction in distance education.  In the past collaborative interaction was only with the people in the same face to face classroom, but with the Internet and online distance education programs you can work with someone that you would not have the ability to work with or for that matter even know if it wasn’t for the evolution of distance education. In my own experience with distance education I feel that the collaborative interaction with instructors and classmates has been enhanced by the use of discussion boards, online blogs, online chats, live chats such as class alive and Skype, and even email. Distance education has definitely expanded the availability of collaborative interaction among students and instructors that would never have had the ability to work and learn together.

Reference:
Simonson, M (2009) Distant Education: The next generation [VOD] Laureate Education, Inc (Producer). Available from http://sylvan.live.ecollege.com/

Sites visited on collaborative interaction:
http://icoblog.wordpress.com/category/distance-education/
http://www.accreditedonlinecolleges.com/blog/2010/50-free-collaboration-tools/comment-page-1/#comment-13713

Moller, Huett, Foshay, & Coleman (2008) Articles

The three articles by Moller, Huett, Foshay, & Coleman (2008), and Simonson’s video programs all see a need to continue to develop and grow distance education programs and e-learning training. Simonson (Laureate Education, Inc. 2010) defines distance education as “formal education in which the learning group (teacher, students, resources) are separated by geography and sometimes by time.” Simonson stated online e-learning is really self study when done with many online programs. Moller, Huett, Foshay, & Coleman (2008), discussed e-learning as a key trend in training for businesses and a need for a higher quality product built according to “sound ID principles.” The second article discussed the use of distance education in higher education while the third article discussed K-12 distance education. According to Moller, Huett, Foshay, & Coleman (2008) there is a need for the K-12 distance education programs to evolve from “little more than a ‘dumping ground’ for credit recovery as well as a repository for those unable or unwilling to function in the more traditional classroom” (p. 64).

Being a high school teacher I agree with Moller, Huett, Foshay, & Coleman (2008) about the distance education in the high school setting. There needs to more research on the K-12 distance education programs.  

References:

Moller, L., Foshay, W., & Huett, J. (2008, May/June). The evolution of distance education: Implications for instructional design on the potential of the Web (Part 1: Training and Development). TechTrends, 52(3), 70–75.
Moller, L., Foshay, W., & Huett, J. (2008, July/August). The evolution of distance education: Implications for instructional design on the potential of the Web (Part 2: Higher Education). TechTrends, 52(4), 66–70.
Huett, J., Moller, L., Foshay, W. & Coleman, C. (2008, September/October). The evolution of distance education: Implications for instructional design on the potential of the Web (Part 3: K12). TechTrends, 52(5), 63–67.
Laureate Education, Inc. (2010). Distance Education: The Next Generation. Retrieved from http://laureate.ecollege.com/ec/crs/default.learn?CourseID=4715750&Survey=1&47=3096178&ClientNodeID=984645&coursenav=1&bhcp=1