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Welcome to the Shared Vision E-Learning Retreat. Photo Album. by Kathy. Photography by Kathy O’Neil. “Educators continually search for ways to make instruction exciting and interesting for students.
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Welcome to the Shared Vision E-Learning Retreat Photo Album by Kathy Photography by Kathy O’Neil
“Educators continually search for ways to make instruction exciting and interesting for students. Technology creates endless possibilities to enhance instruction to the point that students may become enamored with learning.” (Journell, 2007, p.143)
“One important step for instructors teaching an online course is to recognize that a different set of student skills may be required for students to … get the most from an online course.” (Roper, 2007, p. 65)
“Most students have developed and used strategies in a traditional, face-to-face learning environment. Given the difference in context, there may be a deficiency of these skills’ effectiveness in a web-based environment.” (Cobb, 2003, p. 55)
“Advantages of using a synchronous learning environment include real time sharing of knowledge and learning and immediate access to the instructor to ask questions and receive answers.” (Skylar, 2009, p. 71)
“Instructors who establish clear expectations as to how threaded discussions are used or who ask specific questions in response to student postings can expect to encourage richer online dialogue.” (Roper, 2007, p. 63)
“The overall goal for creating social presence in any learning environment … is to create a level of comfort in which people feel at ease around the instructor and the other participants.” (Aragon, 2003, p. 60)
“The exciting thing about true learning culture is all the horizontal knowledge-sharing. It’s not top-down or bottom-up, it’s an I-share-with-you, you share-with-me mindset.” (Rosenberg, 2008, para. 3)