July 2004
July 23, 2004
You know you're living in 2004 when...
You know you're living in 2004 when...
1. You accidentally enter your password on the microwave.
2. You haven't played solitaire with real cards in years.
3. You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach your family of 3.
4. You e-mail the person who works at the desk next to you.
5. Your reason for not staying in touch with friends and family is that they don't have e-mail addresses.
6. You pull up in your own driveway and use your cell phone to see if anyone is home.
7. Every commercial on television has a website at the bottom of the screen.
8. Leaving the house without your cell phone, which you didn't have the first 20 or 30 (or 60) years of your life, is now a cause for panic and you turn around to go and get it.
10. You get up in the morning and go online before getting your coffee.
11. You start tilting your head sideways to smile. :)
12. You're reading this and nodding and laughing.
13. Even worse, you know exactly to whom you are going to forward
this message.
14. You are too busy to notice there was no #9 on this list.
15. You actually scrolled back up to check that there wasn't a #9
on this list. AND NOW U R LAUGHING at yourself.
Go on, forward this ...you know you want to!
The cyber glasses are getting all fogged up again.
Focus...the view through cyber glasses.
July 20, 2004
Three secrets of no-pressure blogging
Bloggers are burning out, he writes, either from self-imposed compulsion to post, or thanks to thanklessly demanding readers. "Several bloggers contacted for this story noted that their readers seem to look at their regular, consistent posting patterns as somewhat akin to a sign of physical health. And any break in that pattern is sometimes seen as a cause for alarm."
Three Secrets of No-Pressure Blogging: Contentious Weblog
July 19, 2004
Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, knighted by Queen Elizabeth II
Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web and director of the World Wide Web Consortium, was dubbed a Knight Commander, Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II during an investiture in London on July 16. The rank of Knight Commander is the second most senior rank of the Order of the British Empire, one of the Orders of Chivalry.
Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, knighted by Queen Elizabeth II - MIT News Office
880 million adults worldwide are illiterates
Winneba (C/R), July 16, GNA - Mr Joshua Mallet, Education Specialist, Literacy and Livelihoods of the Commonwealth of Learning (COL) on Friday said that there are 880 million adults of the world, whose illiteracy currently excludes them from full participation in Society.
"More shocking still is the fact that two-thirds of this figure are women, while half of the world poorest countries are in the Commonwealth".
Regional News of Friday, 16 July 2004
July 16, 2004
Is Online Training right for you?
Getting a job in journalism is hard enough these days, but almost impossible without adequate training. With increasing course fees and the cost of living, many people simply cannot afford to pay for training.
But online training is a growth area - and one that offers a realistic, affordable option both to potential journalists and those who need to refresh their skills.
Is online training right for you?
July 10, 2004
Cheating in Online Student Assessment: Beyond Plagiarism
Online student assessment features in many distance-learning programs. The prevention of plagiarism has been the subject of much attention, but insufficient attention has been given to other problems of dishonesty in online assessment. We survey the types of problems that can occur and what can be done about them. We believe many educators are unaware of these problems, and most countermeasures proposed are insufficient
Cheating in Online Student Assessment: Beyond Plagiarism
Search Engine Technology and Digital Libraries
With the development of the World Wide Web, the "information search" has grown to be a significant business sector of a global, competitive and commercial market. Powerful players have entered this market, such as commercial internet search engines, information portals, multinational publishers and online content integrators. Will Google, Yahoo or Microsoft be the only portals to global knowledge in 2010? If libraries do not want to become marginalized in a key area of their traditional services, they need to acknowledge the challenges that come with the globalisation of scholarly information, the existence and further growth of the academic internet
Search Engine Technology and Digital Libraries: Libraries Need to Discover the Academic Internet
Feedburner
Interesting... Jane points to Feedburner who have implemented their own, personal, news-ticker thingy (I guess I'm initially thinking that this could be cool for highlighting weblogs or your weblog in, say, a WebCT course without stressing about importing / rendering all your content).
Incorporated Subversion - James Farmer's Online Education Weblog
July 5, 2004
(MY) THREE PRINCIPLES OF EFFECTIVE ONLINE PEDAGOGY
As the recipient of the 2003 Sloan-C award for Excellence in Online Teaching, I have been invited to share some of my thoughts regarding effective online pedagogy. I am nothing if not a teacher, and as such, I am honored--both by the recognition that accompanies this wonderful award, and by the opportunity to share my thoughts about asynchronous teaching and learning with my colleagues.
Sloan-C - Publications - Journal: JALN
July 4, 2004
Applying Social Cognitive Constructs of Motivation to Enhance Student Success in Online Distance Education
This article relates findings from a review of the literature on six motivational constructs studied in traditional environments to online education concepts to identify methods for ensuring student success in online courses. The six motivational constructs are (a) self-efficacy, (b) locus of control, (c) attributions, (d) goal orientation, (e) intrinsic versus extrinsic motivation, and (f) self-regulation. The six motivational constructs have been thoroughly investigated in traditional face-to-face classrooms and in a wide variety of educational disciplines. Very few studies, however, have explored the significance of the constructs in the online environment. The purpose of this article is to discuss the areas of online education and academic motivation, and to suggest methods for ensuring student success in the online environment based upon the findings of the literature review.
July 3, 2004
Online Course Caps: A Survey
As online courses continue to permeate the curricula of many higher education institutions, administrators often raise the issue of a maximum number of students in a course--the "course cap"--as a factor that directly contributes to profitability and sustainability of online programs. Increasing traditionally low online course caps, one could argue, can help offset the costs associated with providing technical infrastructure and faculty and student support. But faculty fear that high course caps could have an adverse effect on their workloads and consequently on student learning outcomes.
Online Course Caps: A Survey: Syllabus
