ECI 646 - Distance Education: Week of August 5 (a)

Quote o’ the Day

Learning is the human activity which least needs manipulation by others. Most learning is not the result of instruction. It is rather the result of unhampered participation in a meaningful setting.

- Ivan Illich - Deschooling Society

Online Learning

• PowerPoint Online Learning Lecture
• BlackBoard as an illustration of Online Learning
• Transactional Distance (revisited)

Peters Chapter 6 - beyond Bb

• PowerPoint Notes on Chapter 6
• Computer Supported Collaborative Work (CSCW)
• Virtuality

Break

Review VideoConferencing Basics

We've talked occasionally about interacting online. Here is a summation of those ideas in a somewhat hideous PowerPoint

• PowerPoint on Videoconferencing Basics

Final Project Work

Please review these directions and continue preparation of your final work.

Tonight we will be showing and critiquing your first PowerPoint presentations.

Designing Your Projects for Videoconferencing

The following materials are available (in PDF format)

• Basic Definitions for Videoconferencing
• Teaching Using Videoconferencing
• Videoconferencing Strategies
• Videoconference Matrix
• Videoconference Checklist
• Instructor Evaluation
Viewer Evaluation

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Assignments Due August 12

• SSAZ 4 and 12

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