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CIT INFOBITS March 2005 No. 81 ISSN 1521-9275
About INFOBITS
INFOBITS is an electronic service of The University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill's Center for Instructional Technology. Each month the
CIT's Information Resources Consultant monitors and selects from a
number of information and instructional technology sources
that come to her attention and provides brief notes for electronic
dissemination to educators.
Read this issue on the Web:
http://www.unc.edu/cit/infobits/bitmar05.html
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How Much Time Does Online Teaching Take? A Case Study
New EDUCAUSE E-Book on the Net Generation
Effective E-Learning Design
Technology and Student Writing
Computers in the Classroom and Open Book Exams
Recommended Reading
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HOW MUCH TIME DOES ONLINE TEACHING TAKE? A CASE STUDY
A perennial concern of instructors faced with teaching online courses
is how much more time will be involved compared with tradition
classroom courses. In "Teaching Online -- A Time Comparison" (ONLINE
JOURNAL OF DISTANCE LEARNING ADMINISTRATION, vol. VIII, no. I, Spring
2005), Joseph Cavanaugh presents a case study of the time required to
prepare and teach "Introduction to Economics" as a traditional course
and in an online format. He found that the online version of the course
required more than twice the amount of time than when teaching
in-class. The additional time required resulted "largely from increased
student contact and individualized instruction and not from the use of
technology per se." Cavanaugh points out that, since the contact times
with students can be controlled by the instructor, online teaching may
not be as burdensome as his figures suggest. The paper is available
online at http://www.westga.edu/%7Edistance/ojdla/spring81/yang81.htm.
The Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration is a free,
peer-reviewed quarterly published by the Distance and Distributed
Education Center, The State University of West Georgia, 1600 Maple
Street, Carrollton, GA 30118 USA;
Web: http://www.westga.edu/~distance/jmain11.html.
See also:
"How Much Time Does Online Teaching Take?"
CIT INFOBITS, September 2003
http://www.unc.edu/cit/infobits/bitsep03.html#1
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NEW EDUCAUSE E-BOOK ON THE NET GENERATION
EDUCATING THE NET GENERATION, a new EDUCAUSE e-book of essays edited by
Diana G. Oblinger and James L. Oblinger, "explores the Net Gen and the
implications for institutions in areas such as teaching, service,
learning space design, faculty development, and curriculum." Essays
include: "Technology and Learning Expectations of the Net Generation;"
"Using Technology as a Learning Tool, Not Just the Cool New Thing;"
"Curricula Designed to Meet 21st-Century Expectations;" "Faculty
Development for the Net Generation;" and "Net Generation Students and
Libraries." The entire book is available online at no cost at
http://www.educause.edu/educatingthenetgen/.
EDUCAUSE is a nonprofit association whose mission is to advance higher
education by promoting the intelligent use of information technology.
For more information, contact: Educause, 4772 Walnut Street, Suite 206,
Boulder, CO 80301-2538 USA; tel: 303-449-4430; fax: 303-440-0461;
email: info@xxxxxxxxxxxx; Web: http://www.educause.edu/.
See also:
GROWING UP DIGITAL: THE RISE OF THE NET GENERATION by Don Tapscott
McGraw-Hill, 1999; ISBN: 0-07-063361-4
http://www.growingupdigital.com/
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EFFECTIVE E-LEARNING DESIGN
"The unpredictability of the student context and the mediated
relationship with the student require careful attention by the
educational designer to details which might otherwise be managed by the
teacher at the time of instruction." In "Elements of Effective
e-Learning Design" (INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF RESEARCH IN OPEN AND
DISTANCE LEARNING, March 2005) Andrew R. Brown and Bradley D. Voltz
cover six elements of effective design that can help create effective
e-learning delivery. Drawing upon examples from The Le@rning
Federation, an initiative of state and federal governments of Australia
and New Zealand, they discuss lesson planning, instructional design,
creative writing, and software specification. The paper is available
online at http://www.irrodl.org/content/v6.1/brown_voltz.html.
International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning (IRRODL)
[ISSN 1492-3831] is a free, refereed ejournal published by Athabasca
University - Canada's Open University. For more information, contact
Paula Smith, IRRODL Managing Editor; tel: 780-675-6810; fax:
780-675-672; email: irrodl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; Web: http://www.irrodl.org/.
The Le@rning Federation (TLF) is an "initiative designed to create
online curriculum materials and the necessary infrastructure to ensure
that teachers and students in Australia and New Zealand can use these
materials to widen and enhance their learning experiences in the
classroom." For more information, see
http://www.thelearningfederation.edu.au/.
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TECHNOLOGY AND STUDENT WRITING
The March 2005 issue of the AFT ON CAMPUS "Speak Out" column asks the
question, "Does technology hurt student writing?" Norm Goldstein, an
Associated Press editor, uses examples from email correspondence to
argue that technology is eroding writing skills. Clinton R. Gardner, a
composition teacher at Salt Lake Community College in Utah, believes
that "online writing technologies have improved student writing,
because more people are writing and sharing their writing than at any
time in the history of humanity." Read both sides of the question at
http://www.aft.org/pubs-reports/on_campus/mar05/speakout.htm.
AFT On Campus is published eight times a year by the American
Federation of Teachers, 555 New Jersey Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20001
USA; tel: 202-879-4400; email: online@xxxxxxx; Web: http://www.aft.org/
Current and back issues are available at no cost at
http://www.aft.org/publications/on_campus/index.html.
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COMPUTERS IN THE CLASSROOM AND OPEN BOOK EXAMS
In "PCs in the Classroom & Open Book Exams" (UBIQUITY, vol. 6, issue 9,
March 15-22, 2005), Evan Golub asks and supplies some answers to
questions regarding open-book/open-note exams. When classroom computer
use is allowed and encouraged, how can instructors secure the open-book
exam environment? How can cheating be minimized when students are
allowed Internet access during open-book exams? Golub's suggested
solutions are available online at
http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v6i9_golub.html.
Ubiquity is a free, Web-based publication of the Association for
Computing Machinery (ACM), "dedicated to fostering critical analysis
and in-depth commentary on issues relating to the nature, constitution,
structure, science, engineering, technology, practices, and paradigms
of the IT profession." For more information, contact: Ubiquity, email:
ubiquity@xxxxxxx; Web: http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/.
For more information on the ACM, contact: ACM, One Astor Plaza, 1515
Broadway, New York, NY 10036, USA; tel: 800-342-6626 or 212-626-0500;
Web: http://www.acm.org/.
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RECOMMENDED READING
"Recommended Reading" lists items that have been recommended to me or
that Infobits readers have found particularly interesting and/or
useful, including books, articles, and websites published by Infobits
subscribers. Send your recommendations to carolyn_kotlas@xxxxxxx for
possible inclusion in this column.
Author Clark Aldrich recommends his new book:
LEARNING BY DOING: A COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE TO SIMULATIONS, COMPUTER
GAMES, AND PEDAGOGY IN E-LEARNING AND OTHER EDUCATIONAL
EXPERIENCES
Wiley, April 2005
ISBN: 0-7879-7735-7 hardcover $60.00 (US)
Description from Wiley website:
"Designed for learning professionals and drawing on both game creators
and instructional designers, Learning by Doing explains how to select,
research, build, sell, deploy, and measure the right type of
educational simulation for the right situation. It covers simple
approaches that use basic or no technology through projects on the
scale of computer games and flight simulators. The book role models
content as well, written accessibly with humor, precision,
interactivity, and lots of pictures. Many will also find it a useful
tool to improve communication between themselves and their customers,
employees, sponsors, and colleagues."
The table of contents and some excerpts are available at
http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0787977357.html
Aldrich is also author of SIMULATIONS AND THE FUTURE OF LEARNING: AN
INNOVATIVE (AND PERHAPS REVOLUTIONARY) APPROACH TO E-LEARNING. See
http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0787969621.html for
more information or to request an evaluation copy of this title.
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