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Engaging online learners 1

Learning with 'e's

There are many, many ways to do this of course, and in this series of blog posts I will aim to explore a few methods that I have tried with success in engaging my own students. Let's start with collaborative online spaces. Below is an extract from a book chapter I wrote several years ago.

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Engaging online learners 5

Learning with 'e's

And yet asynchronous modes of online learning can be as equally powerful as synchronous methods. Asynchronous communication is time-shifted - e-mail, text messages and standard mail (correspondence courses were one of the first forms of distance education). Set up collaborative writing exercises around course content.

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Chance encounters

Learning with 'e's

I was on a lecture tour of New Zealand in 2011, and was thoroughly enjoying my time travelling around the beautiful North Island, speaking at events in Auckland, Hamilton, Rotorua, Whangarei, and of course, the capital city, Wellington. He looked at me again, and said 'What did you say your name was?'

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Nostalgia will NOT get my PhD finished….but it is a nice diversion

Learning Confluence

Wikispaces is topical right now given the announcement to close – I am still wondering how I can archive 200+ wikis before July… BTW – there is a dead link in the post, the Flat Classroom 2007 wiki is here – [link]. My full time ‘job’ right now is my PhD. tools and disrupt class activities.

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Project Share Support Center #SXSWedu

EdTechSandyK

Project Share Support Center: Scaffolding for a New Platform [link] Presentation Handout: [link] Presentation Prezi: https://prezi.com/secure/4cf2d078d1ad3e8f9f53cf43b51ba7536f2210e4/ There is a Project Share support center course where these tools are shared in Epsilen. They are also developing some of the OnTrack courses.

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METC: Motivate, Engage, Transform, & Connect and Trogdor, Too!

The Daring Librarian

Related to that: Inspired by the Mighty Little Librarian Tiff Presents I started a new wiki! Up to now I''ve just blogged about it.embedding stuff here - usually gathered from various publications like my Ed Tech Wiki, Flickr, or Slideshare which was fine but it just didn''t seem as cohesive as having it all on one easy to follow wiki.

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Reflections on an Online Master's Degree - The Good Stuff!

EdTechSandyK

In November 2010 I completed a master’s degree in Educational Technology Leadership after 18 months of course work entirely online. Due to the way my particular program was structured, the courses were delivered “one-at-a-time” and each course lasted for five weeks.

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