Thursday, September 16, 2010
Podcast Post
Today's post is for week 5 of my Business Technology and Society class. More information on the class can be found on my web page at http://itanewf.com. This podcast is about strategy and the way that business have distinguished themselves over the last 3 generations or 100 years. I hope that you enjoy this I look forward to your comments.
Monday, June 28, 2010
It is so I am now Dr. David Armstrong Ed. D
Ok,
After all this time I am done! It is now Dr. Armstrong Ed. D. The study went well and can be found in Dissertation Abstracts and downloaded for free! This is not like other studies of online learning in this study i looked at the "Typical" course development that is done!
Significance of the Research
One crucial element in describing students’ perceptions of online learning is the use and expectations that students bring with them from their daily experiences with technology. Gaining an understanding of online learning from students engaged in the learning process, their expectations, experiences, and perceptions may provide a contribution to the literature base in online learning. Findings from this study suggest that how faculty designs communication, the structure of the online environment, and the use of resources contribute to the positive or negative perceptions students hold of the learning experience. So critical to this perception is the design and implementation of communication that it not only affects students approach to the learning but also shapes perceptions of academic quality. For the students taking online classes, learning is not putting students in touch with information; rather, it is putting students in touch with communities (Weigle, 2002). Indeed learning is the process of enculturation that engages students with concepts and communities (Weigle).
Online courses typically are designed and developed by faculty based on previous course design and face-to-face instructional methods (Allen & Seaman, 2008; Lin, Espinoza, & Davis, 2010; Osika, Johnson, & Buteau, 2009; Papasratorn & Wangpipatwong, 2005). Faculty typically design and implement online learning based on a text or information delivery system with little or no thought to the expectations of communication and technology students bring with them to this unique environment. Entwistle (1981) noticed that some methods of instruction, perceived to better encourage learning by the instructor, produced surface approaches to learning as a result of student perceptions. Although instructors view specific forms of delivery and assessment to be better, student perceptions will often determine the effectiveness of learning methods. A report by Eduventures (2009) sheds some light on why this might be so, noting that innovation in the use, implementation, methods, and delivery of online instruction is limited primarily to faculty teaching online and that how instructors teach is often a result of how they were taught and how they learned. The results of this study are significant in that they provide faculty with an understanding of the students’ perspective, examine how the students perceive learning, and present the voice of the student often missing from the design of online instruction.
After all this time I am done! It is now Dr. Armstrong Ed. D. The study went well and can be found in Dissertation Abstracts and downloaded for free! This is not like other studies of online learning in this study i looked at the "Typical" course development that is done!
Significance of the Research
One crucial element in describing students’ perceptions of online learning is the use and expectations that students bring with them from their daily experiences with technology. Gaining an understanding of online learning from students engaged in the learning process, their expectations, experiences, and perceptions may provide a contribution to the literature base in online learning. Findings from this study suggest that how faculty designs communication, the structure of the online environment, and the use of resources contribute to the positive or negative perceptions students hold of the learning experience. So critical to this perception is the design and implementation of communication that it not only affects students approach to the learning but also shapes perceptions of academic quality. For the students taking online classes, learning is not putting students in touch with information; rather, it is putting students in touch with communities (Weigle, 2002). Indeed learning is the process of enculturation that engages students with concepts and communities (Weigle).
Online courses typically are designed and developed by faculty based on previous course design and face-to-face instructional methods (Allen & Seaman, 2008; Lin, Espinoza, & Davis, 2010; Osika, Johnson, & Buteau, 2009; Papasratorn & Wangpipatwong, 2005). Faculty typically design and implement online learning based on a text or information delivery system with little or no thought to the expectations of communication and technology students bring with them to this unique environment. Entwistle (1981) noticed that some methods of instruction, perceived to better encourage learning by the instructor, produced surface approaches to learning as a result of student perceptions. Although instructors view specific forms of delivery and assessment to be better, student perceptions will often determine the effectiveness of learning methods. A report by Eduventures (2009) sheds some light on why this might be so, noting that innovation in the use, implementation, methods, and delivery of online instruction is limited primarily to faculty teaching online and that how instructors teach is often a result of how they were taught and how they learned. The results of this study are significant in that they provide faculty with an understanding of the students’ perspective, examine how the students perceive learning, and present the voice of the student often missing from the design of online instruction.
Thursday, May 6, 2010
Getting Closer
3 chapters are good to go now! I think that is better then last time. 1, 3, and 4 that have been set and ready! 3 and 4 need some things moved around and 5? Well nothing yet.... I will not hold my breath. I have a full day tomorrow so that should help?
This summer?
What to do this summer? I am going to do something that I have always wanted to do -all 375 hours of Nicolaides' book The Natural Way to Draw. At the end of each lesson I will scan and post to this site. The "Dissertation" should now be done, I am just waiting for a few simple edits (I hope) and then hand in to committee on the 10th (Monday). I need and my family needs me back. I will do the teaching thing at SCU at 67% of full time (7 Classes in a year) + teaching in the summer online. So for now I am going to get started on The Natural Way to Draw. My plan is start on Monday after I deliver the "D".
Monday, September 14, 2009
Back at it!
Just started the Online Teaching Cert program from Slone-C.
I love the mentor and facilitator idea- I want to give all my online students a Mentor that has taken the class before and has perhaps some great wisdom to share with my students... and keep them on track!
So far a few thoughts and questions:
Are there online only teachers that teach at a verity of institutions?
With the rise in online learning is this something that might be needed?
I was just reading an article by Osika, Johnson, & Buteau, 2009 that talks about faculty perspective of tools online. This looks to me like most faculty still see online learning has a text delivery system. With only 50% saying that discussion boards are useful and 38% not even using them!
Factors Influencing Faculty Use of Technology in Online Instruction: A Case Study by Osika, Johnson, & Buteau, 2009 from:
Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration, Volume XII, Number I, Spring 2009 University of West Georgia, Distance Education Center
I love the mentor and facilitator idea- I want to give all my online students a Mentor that has taken the class before and has perhaps some great wisdom to share with my students... and keep them on track!
So far a few thoughts and questions:
Are there online only teachers that teach at a verity of institutions?
With the rise in online learning is this something that might be needed?
I was just reading an article by Osika, Johnson, & Buteau, 2009 that talks about faculty perspective of tools online. This looks to me like most faculty still see online learning has a text delivery system. With only 50% saying that discussion boards are useful and 38% not even using them!Factors Influencing Faculty Use of Technology in Online Instruction: A Case Study by Osika, Johnson, & Buteau, 2009 from:
Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration, Volume XII, Number I, Spring 2009 University of West Georgia, Distance Education Center
Thursday, July 2, 2009
House Cleaning!
So I just moved my office up to the main flor of the house and I enjoying the reorganized view of my books!
Working on the RQ3 and RQ4.
Signed up to take the Sloan Online Teaching Certification program. This will start in September and I think it is part of the move that I am waiting for. All the Jobs and interviews are asking about how to develop a certification program of this type and Sloan is the best! What better way to do this then start with the best and get my own Cert at the same time. I will blog my thoughts when the time comes and am taking the course. For now my students are Blogging on topic for my SOCI 149 Class. and I need to do some grading!
Take a look:
Working on the RQ3 and RQ4.
Signed up to take the Sloan Online Teaching Certification program. This will start in September and I think it is part of the move that I am waiting for. All the Jobs and interviews are asking about how to develop a certification program of this type and Sloan is the best! What better way to do this then start with the best and get my own Cert at the same time. I will blog my thoughts when the time comes and am taking the course. For now my students are Blogging on topic for my SOCI 149 Class. and I need to do some grading!
Take a look:
So here they are!
Health Care Administration in La Paz and the United State
Social networking/the dangers of sharing public information through online accounts
Radio-Frequency IDentification
Global positioning systems and their evolution in today's society
Net Neutrality and other policy surrounding the WWW
Social networking and its impact on branding and social epidemics
Maybe tomorrow
Goodness Gracious I just remembered I have not updated this since I had to start working to pay the ridiculous food and petrol prices to feed my kids... You would not believe that my hands were chopped off and I was waiting for bionic ones. Please don't abandon me!.
I am distracted with feeding the little people, watching the grass grow, just generally being a slave to my kids, my day seems to be packed from crawling out of bed at 6.30 to whenever. I am avoiding recapture. Maybe tomorrow.
I totally promise I will blog more regularly. Honestly! No Joke!.
I am distracted with feeding the little people, watching the grass grow, just generally being a slave to my kids, my day seems to be packed from crawling out of bed at 6.30 to whenever. I am avoiding recapture. Maybe tomorrow.
I totally promise I will blog more regularly. Honestly! No Joke!.
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