Authored by Kaye Shelton and George Saltsman, this book is part of the USDLA series on Distance Learning, this book discusses issues surrounding the logistics, practices and politics of administering an online education program.
An Administrator’s Guide to Online Education
ISBN: 1-59311-424-9
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In my role as Coordinator of Learning Technologies, one of my primary responsibilities is the management and campus support for our LMS, WebCT Blackboard. I also serve on a number of committees that revolve around technology and pedagogy. I strive to stay on top of trends and best practices in my field to varying degrees of success.
That said, I am going to begin documenting the books and articles I come across that support me and others in similar roles. These will be tagged “OnlineEd” and categorized under “Readings.”
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Note that this post will be a work in progress, so come back again or queue it up in your aggregator!
I was asked to present to the members of a Teaching Literature in Secondary School course. Typically this usually results in a “how to use your Plymouth State resources” monologue. Which isn’t to say it isn’t useful, but it’s not exactly inspiring.
As I was working with this group, a couple of things immediately stood out: 1) this was a mixed class of undergraduate and graduate students and 2) many of these students if they weren’t already in a position to work with students would be graduating in the spring. As student accounts are removed within 6 months of their graduation, they would need to move their work in order to retain access it to it. Well that got the little cogs in my head spinning and with all the recent buzz over Google Apps for Education and my previous post on the “Digital Nomad,” I decided to take a chance and dive into resources that would enable these current and future professionals to develop, access and share their resources without being required to be place bound. I started with the growing suite of Google apps.
Google Apps
Google’s legacy is the search engine we all know, but not as many folks in my area are aware of the companies efforts to develop a suite of products that can be accessed anywhere one has a network connection. Some of these applications include: G-Mail, Docs & Spreadsheets (Docs was formerly known as Writely), Calendar, G-Talk, and in beta (think not quite ready for primetime – Saturday Night Live) – Page Creator, Personalized Homepage, Groups and Reader. So how is this different from Microsoft Office, you might ask? Well, for one thing, your documents are available online so you can access them from any computer with Internet access. Additionally, you can control access to your documents for online collaboration.
The key to the kingdom is a simple and free Google account.
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This had come across my radar a few weeks ago as it was being touted in a number of the blogs I follow. I mentioned this morning to our CIO Dwight Fischer about this free online conference which is designed for K-12 but obviously has an impact on higher ed, considering that we will be seeing the students affected by current technological events in our own schools very soon.
What really piqued my interest though was the keynote kickoff presented by David Warlick who is well known in his own right for his blog, 2-cents worth, as well as for his passionate and enaging perspectives on technology and education. If you don’t check out anything else, take a peek at his online keynote which he filmed in his own backyard, literally!
The conference url is http://k12onlineconference.org
And to top things off, I was amazed to see that you can get graduate credit for attending, or rather participating, in this conference. Who offers this credit, none other than our very own Plymouth State University in conjunction with the Shanghai American School!
I’d write more but I need to watch the keynote again. It’s a bit lengthy and packed with so much info that I need to take a second look.
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