GLOSSARY Online education As per definition on the web, it is basically credit-granting courses or education training delivered primarily via the Internet to students at remote locations, including their homes. The Online courses may or may not be delivered synchronously. An online course may need that students and teachers meet once or periodically in a physical setting for lectures, labs, or exams, so long as the time spent in the physical setting does not exceed 25 percent of the total course time. Online education encompasses various degrees and courses. Through online education, one can opt for many
Distance learning Distance learning makes it possible to earn degrees without quitting your day job. Your schedule is more hectic than ever with work, family, and errands. When it comes to continuing your education, you need a school that works with your busy schedule. That’s where distance learning comes. It’s and plenty of bangs for your buck. Course Management System - Also shortened to "CMS." The software, usually web-based, used by colleges and universities, as well as corporations and government, that facilitates distance learning by centralizing the development, management, and distribution of instructional-related information and materials. A CMS provides faculty with a set of tools that allows the easy creation of course content - syllabi, course modules, lecture notes, assignments, tests and quizzes, etc. - and is the framework in which they teach and manage the class. To an online student, a CMS is simply the vehicle by which you, the instructor, and your fellow learners interact using asynchronous discussion boards and live chat tools; access course information and materials, submit assignments, check your grades, etc.
Asynchronous Communication - Non-synchronous, two-way communication in which there is a delay between when a message is sent and when it is actually received. In distance learning, asynchronous communication most often take the form of email (e.g. your professor emails you with feedback on an assignment), voicemail (e.g. you leave a message for your professor on his/her office phone), and discussion boards (e.g. you post a reply to a classmate's question in a threaded class discussion.)
Effectiveness Measure of achieving a specific goal: Typical effectiveness measures in distance education include cost, course design, instruction, media, teaching strategies, technology. Relates to quality assurance.
Feedback Key element in any form of communication: the response of the receiver to the sender. Learner Autonomy "Concept that learners have different capacities for making decisions regarding their own learning." Relates to the structure and interactive expectations of a distance education course. A key element in adult learning. Blended Learning an increasing popular combination of online and in-person learning activities. Blog (Weblog) a public web site where users post informal journals of their thoughts, comments, and philosophies, updated frequently and normally reflecting the views of the blog's creator. Discussion Forums a place where people can exchange messages of common interest.
E- learning Education via the internet,network , or standalone computer. e-learning is essentially the network-enabled transfer of skills and knownetwkorledge. e-learning refers to using electronic applications and processes to learn. e-learning applications and processes include Web-based learning, computer-based learning, virtual classrooms and digital collaboration. Content is delivered via the Internet, intranet/extranet, audio or video tape, satellite TV, and CD-Rom.
Synchronous Learning
Synchronous Learning is often referred to as 'live' learning and is used in conjunction with online learning. It means that the communications occur at the same time between individuals and information is accessed instantly. People can communicate in 'real time' using their computers to both talk to each other as well as text chat. Presentations can be made using electronic whiteboards and electronic slides. This type of interaction is referred to as a 'virtual classroom'. Presentations, conversations and text can be stored (archived) and made available online as a resource. Threaded Discussion In a threaded discussion users have the option of responding to one another directly. Although there may be a general topic, as in the discussion example above, subtopics emerge as students respond to specific postings. These secondary postings are the "threads" that spin off from the main discussion: a student responds directly to a comment made about the main topic, and another student responds to the response, and so a thread is formed. A threaded discussion is a group conversation with simultaneous side conversations. There is little sense of sequence in a threaded discussion; you can easily chime in at any point in the conversation Facilitator The online course instructor is often referred to as the course facilitator. Online instructors do not retain their traditional "teacher-centered" roles from the brick-and-mortar, face-to-face paradigm. Instead, they become the medium through which discovery learning is facilitated in a student-centered environment. The facilitator is often referred to as the "course moderator." In Interactive Videoconferencing (IVC) the far-end helping staff person, whether teacher or para-educator, is called the "facilitator."
Course Management System (CMS) CMS is a software system that facilitates e-learning or supplements classroom learning and administration. These systems are usually run on servers and accessed by students as web pages. These may include stored student work, e-learning resources, discussion forums, peer communication tools, tracking of student progress, exercises and quizzes. CMS is sometimes referred to as a learning management system (LMS) or a virtual learning environment (VLE). BBS (bulletin board system)
a system maintained by a host computer for posting information, carrying on discussions, uploading and downloading files, chatting, and other online services. BBSs are generally created for a specific group of users and are usually topic-specific. A learning management system (LMS) is software for delivering, tracking and managing training. LMSs range from systems for managing training records to software for distributing courses over the Internet and offering features for online collaboration. In blended/hybrid e-learning instruction, delivery combines presence and no presence and the type of presence can be physical or virtual. Collaborative learning, in which the communication between the tutor and the students is asynchronous: the students study individually following an arranged schedule of assignments. Asynchronous Communication - Non-synchronous, two-way communication in which there is a delay between when a message is sent and when it is actually received. In distance learning, asynchronous communication most often take the form of email (e.g. your professor emails you with feedback on an assignment), voicemail (e.g. you leave a message for your professor on his/her office phone), and discussion boards (e.g. you post a reply to a classmate's question in a threaded class discussion.)
Threaded Discussion - A common feature of distance learning that allows students to interact with their classmates and instructor. A threaded discussion is a series of messages on a particular topic posted in a discussion forum. A threaded discussion is asynchronous, not fixed in time or space, so students can log on at any time from any Internet-enabled computer to seek clarification for issues they encounter in their coursework, to discuss topics raised in class, or to initiate new discussions on related topics. A good online discussion has the same effect of group or in-class discussion, in which students build on one another's perspectives to gain a deeper understanding of the materials.
Course Management System - Also shortened to "CMS." The software, usually web-based, used by colleges and universities, as well as corporations and government, that facilitates distance learning by centralizing the development, management, and distribution of instructional-related information and materials. A CMS provides faculty with a set of tools that allows the easy creation of course content - syllabi, course modules, lecture notes, assignments, tests and quizzes, etc. - and is the framework in which they teach and manage the class. To an online student, a CMS is simply the vehicle by which you, the instructor, and your fellow learners interact using asynchronous discussion boards and live chat tools; access course information and materials, submit assignments, check your grades, etc.
Live Web conferencing: Participants will experience a live online web session with students in California using NetTutor. Attendees will leave with strategies and tools to create links in Blackboard to improve student retention. Make your class as personal as possible.
Virtual Learning Community: By taking advantage of virtual spaces like Facebook, Twitter, and Second Life, we give our students space to learn outside the classroom.
Web Administration: The Road to Xavier portal for admitted students was named Best University Web Site 2006 by the Web Marketing Association. Beyond enabling the recruitment of a banner class, this Web 2.0 project laid the foundation for the Virtual Learning Commons, Xavier's comprehensive fully integrated Web presence to support 21st-century learners. Cyberspace: The nebulous place where humans interact over computer networks. Barry Willis. University of Idaho Engineering Outreach staff highlighting. Electronic Mail (E-mail): Sending messages from one computer user to another.
Assessment: Evaluation of project or course based on measuring pre- against post- awareness, knowledge, or skills. Blackboard A blackboard is a collaborative, virtual space where multiple parties contribute ideas towards the solution of a problem by posting information, solution ideas and suggestions. Each addition to the blackboard brainstorm is intended to increase collective understanding until a problem has been solved. Interactive Course An interactive course is a distance learning course that incorporates at least some interactive components, such as student interaction with technology, active instructor feedback, communication between peers, communication between students and an instructor and possible peer collaboration. Distributed Learning Distributed learning is a type of distance learning that makes use of information technology. Distributed learning includes most types of distance learning but not plain correspondence via the mail. Distance Education: The process of providing instruction when students and instructors are separated by physical distance and technology, often in tandem with face-to-face communication, is used to bridge the gap. Audio Bridge: A device used in audioconferencing that connects multiple telephone lines. Audioconferencing: Voice only connection of more than two sites using standard telephone lines. Computer Assisted Instruction (CAI): Teaching process in which a computer is utilized to enhance the learning environment by assisting students in gaining mastery over a specific skill. Interactive Media: Frequency assignment that allows for a two-way interaction or exchange of information.
Distance learning motives: flexible study time, student-centred approach, easy multiplication of the training provision, increased speed in implementing changes, unified content distribution, smaller logistic costs. (Drobot, 2002)
Distance learning brings a new set of requirements to the entire traning process. Since there is no direct link between the trainer and the student (for most of the time) the requirements from course designers, course tutors and course administrator are more complex.
REFLECTION OF UNIT 2 the Teacher can develop in different ways, so in this unit we had the opportunity to develop our knowledge more about what a teacher needs to know about the meaning of distance education and also how to plan our own line course and all the stuff that a online course needs. We as future teacher need to know more about this information because we can create online courses for new generations.
Hello Rocio, Thank you for your reflection of unit 2. I would add that in this unit we also studied how to make activities on-line which is very important when we prepare a course on-line.
In this unit we had the opportunty to learn more about what is assessment? how can we give feedback our student and that we need to know how to help our student that have different kind of responses in the development of the activities of the plan so this unit let us to know more about the interaction that we can apply with our student.
the last unit!!! I have learnt a lot of things in this course, all the units tought me different points very important in my education. Blackboard gave me the opportunity to be independentin my education, It was a good experience because, we could learn an important subject that can help us in the future for example: how can we design a online plan,e tivity design, electonic communication, how can we give feedback to our students and assesment etc.. I would like to have the opportunity to take and to design a course like this because it was a good experiencies for students and teacher, students learn to be responsible and independence in their knowledge and teacher has the ability to give feedback to solve their doubts
Hello Rocío, Thank you for your portfolio. I do ot see the reflection of unit 1. About your reflection of unit 3 and the last reflection I can tell you that they allow me to see that you understood the purpose of teh course and that it was something new learned through a nice experience. Please send me the self-assessment that is in the course in teh information about the course copy it and send it to me. As soon as you send it to me I will post your grades in the Evaluación section in the course
We had the opportunity in the first unit to learn about the differences between distance education, open education and traditional education. This information just let us to know about the significance that the three concepts involve, because nowadays, we can see this information in our schools, so it´s very important to distinguish the different that each kind of education showes.
GLOSSARY
ResponderEliminarOnline education
As per definition on the web, it is basically credit-granting courses or education training delivered primarily via the Internet to students at remote locations, including their homes. The Online courses may or may not be delivered synchronously. An online course may need that students and teachers meet once or periodically in a physical setting for lectures, labs, or exams, so long as the time spent in the physical setting does not exceed 25 percent of the total course time. Online education encompasses various degrees and courses. Through online education, one can opt for many
Distance learning
Distance learning makes it possible to earn degrees without quitting your day job. Your schedule is more hectic than ever with work, family, and errands. When it comes to continuing your education, you need a school that works with your busy schedule. That’s where distance learning comes. It’s and plenty of bangs for your buck.
Course Management System - Also shortened to "CMS." The software, usually web-based, used by colleges and universities, as well as corporations and government, that facilitates distance learning by centralizing the development, management, and distribution of instructional-related information and materials. A CMS provides faculty with a set of tools that allows the easy creation of course content - syllabi, course modules, lecture notes, assignments, tests and quizzes, etc. - and is the framework in which they teach and manage the class. To an online student, a CMS is simply the vehicle by which you, the instructor, and your fellow learners interact using asynchronous discussion boards and live chat tools; access course information and materials, submit assignments, check your grades, etc.
Asynchronous Communication - Non-synchronous, two-way communication in which there is a delay between when a message is sent and when it is actually received. In distance learning, asynchronous communication most often take the form of email (e.g. your professor emails you with feedback on an assignment), voicemail (e.g. you leave a message for your professor on his/her office phone), and discussion boards (e.g. you post a reply to a classmate's question in a threaded class discussion.)
Effectiveness
Measure of achieving a specific goal: Typical effectiveness measures in distance education include cost, course design, instruction, media, teaching strategies, technology. Relates to quality assurance.
Feedback
Key element in any form of communication: the response of the receiver to the sender.
Learner Autonomy
"Concept that learners have different capacities for making decisions regarding their own learning." Relates to the structure and interactive expectations of a distance education course. A key element in adult learning.
Blended Learning
an increasing popular combination of online and in-person learning activities.
Blog (Weblog)
a public web site where users post informal journals of their thoughts, comments, and philosophies, updated frequently and normally reflecting the views of the blog's creator.
Discussion Forums
a place where people can exchange messages of common interest.
E- learning
Education via the internet,network , or standalone computer. e-learning is essentially the network-enabled transfer of skills and knownetwkorledge. e-learning refers to using electronic applications and processes to learn. e-learning applications and processes include Web-based learning, computer-based learning, virtual classrooms and digital collaboration. Content is delivered via the Internet, intranet/extranet, audio or video tape, satellite TV, and CD-Rom.
Synchronous Learning
Synchronous Learning is often referred to as 'live' learning and is used in conjunction with online learning. It means that the communications occur at the same time between individuals and information is accessed instantly. People can communicate in 'real time' using their computers to both talk to each other as well as text chat. Presentations can be made using electronic whiteboards and electronic slides. This type of interaction is referred to as a 'virtual classroom'. Presentations, conversations and text can be stored (archived) and made available online as a resource.
Threaded Discussion
In a threaded discussion users have the option of responding to one another directly. Although there may be a general topic, as in the discussion example above, subtopics emerge as students respond to specific postings. These secondary postings are the "threads" that spin off from the main discussion: a student responds directly to a comment made about the main topic, and another student responds to the response, and so a thread is formed. A threaded discussion is a group conversation with simultaneous side conversations. There is little sense of sequence in a threaded discussion; you can easily chime in at any point in the conversation
Facilitator
The online course instructor is often referred to as the course facilitator. Online instructors do not retain their traditional "teacher-centered" roles from the brick-and-mortar, face-to-face paradigm. Instead, they become the medium through which discovery learning is facilitated in a student-centered environment. The facilitator is often referred to as the "course moderator." In Interactive Videoconferencing (IVC) the far-end helping staff person, whether teacher or para-educator, is called the "facilitator."
Course Management System (CMS)
CMS is a software system that facilitates e-learning or supplements classroom learning and administration. These systems are usually run on servers and accessed by students as web pages. These may include stored student work, e-learning resources, discussion forums, peer communication tools, tracking of student progress, exercises and quizzes. CMS is sometimes referred to as a learning management system (LMS) or a virtual learning environment (VLE).
BBS (bulletin board system)
a system maintained by a host computer for posting information, carrying on discussions, uploading and downloading files, chatting, and other online services. BBSs are generally created for a specific group of users and are usually topic-specific.
A learning management system (LMS) is software for delivering, tracking and managing training. LMSs range from systems for managing training records to software for distributing courses over the Internet and offering features for online collaboration.
In blended/hybrid e-learning instruction, delivery combines presence and no presence and the type of presence can be physical or virtual.
Collaborative learning, in which the communication between the tutor and the students is asynchronous: the students study individually following an arranged schedule of assignments.
Asynchronous Communication - Non-synchronous, two-way communication in which there is a delay between when a message is sent and when it is actually received. In distance learning, asynchronous communication most often take the form of email (e.g. your professor emails you with feedback on an assignment), voicemail (e.g. you leave a message for your professor on his/her office phone), and discussion boards (e.g. you post a reply to a classmate's question in a threaded class discussion.)
Threaded Discussion - A common feature of distance learning that allows students to interact with their classmates and instructor. A threaded discussion is a series of messages on a particular topic posted in a discussion forum. A threaded discussion is asynchronous, not fixed in time or space, so students can log on at any time from any Internet-enabled computer to seek clarification for issues they encounter in their coursework, to discuss topics raised in class, or to initiate new discussions on related topics. A good online discussion has the same effect of group or in-class discussion, in which students build on one another's perspectives to gain a deeper understanding of the materials.
Course Management System - Also shortened to "CMS." The software, usually web-based, used by colleges and universities, as well as corporations and government, that facilitates distance learning by centralizing the development, management, and distribution of instructional-related information and materials. A CMS provides faculty with a set of tools that allows the easy creation of course content - syllabi, course modules, lecture notes, assignments, tests and quizzes, etc. - and is the framework in which they teach and manage the class. To an online student, a CMS is simply the vehicle by which you, the instructor, and your fellow learners interact using asynchronous discussion boards and live chat tools; access course information and materials, submit assignments, check your grades, etc.
Live Web conferencing:
Participants will experience a live online web session with students in California using NetTutor. Attendees will leave with strategies and tools to create links in Blackboard to improve student retention. Make your class as personal as possible.
Virtual Learning Community:
By taking advantage of virtual spaces like Facebook, Twitter, and Second Life, we give our students space to learn outside the classroom.
Web Administration:
The Road to Xavier portal for admitted students was named Best University Web Site 2006 by the Web Marketing Association. Beyond enabling the recruitment of a banner class, this Web 2.0 project laid the foundation for the Virtual Learning Commons, Xavier's comprehensive fully integrated Web presence to support 21st-century learners.
Cyberspace:
The nebulous place where humans interact over computer networks.
Barry Willis. University of Idaho Engineering Outreach staff highlighting.
Electronic Mail (E-mail):
Sending messages from one computer user to another.
Assessment:
Evaluation of project or course based on measuring pre- against post- awareness, knowledge, or skills.
Blackboard
A blackboard is a collaborative, virtual space where multiple parties contribute ideas towards
the solution of a problem by posting information, solution ideas and suggestions. Each addition to
the blackboard brainstorm is intended to increase collective understanding until a problem has been
solved.
Interactive Course
An interactive course is a distance learning course that incorporates at least some interactive components, such as student interaction with technology, active instructor feedback, communication between peers, communication between students and an instructor and possible peer collaboration.
Distributed Learning
Distributed learning is a type of distance learning that makes use of information technology.
Distributed learning includes most types of distance learning but not plain correspondence
via the mail.
Distance Education: The process of providing instruction when students and instructors are separated by physical distance and technology, often in tandem with face-to-face communication, is used to bridge the gap.
Audio Bridge: A device used in audioconferencing that connects multiple telephone lines. Audioconferencing: Voice only connection of more than two sites using standard telephone lines.
Computer Assisted Instruction (CAI): Teaching process in which a computer is utilized to enhance the learning environment by assisting students in gaining mastery over a specific skill.
Interactive Media: Frequency assignment that allows for a two-way interaction or exchange of information.
Distance learning motives: flexible study time, student-centred approach, easy multiplication of the training provision, increased speed in implementing changes, unified content distribution, smaller logistic costs. (Drobot, 2002)
Distance learning brings a new set of requirements to the entire traning process. Since there is no direct link between the trainer and the student (for most of the time) the requirements from course designers, course tutors and course administrator are more complex.
REFLECTION OF UNIT 2
ResponderEliminarthe Teacher can develop in different ways, so in this unit we had the opportunity to develop our knowledge more about what a teacher needs to know about the meaning of distance education and also how to plan our own line course and all the stuff that a online course needs. We as future teacher need to know more about this information because we can create online courses for new generations.
Hello Rocio,
ResponderEliminarThank you for the Glossary of terms!
Hello Rocio,
ResponderEliminarThank you for your reflection of unit 2. I would add that in this unit we also studied how to make activities on-line which is very important when we prepare a course on-line.
One more comment Rocio, I do not see the reflection of unit 1. Do not forget it!
ResponderEliminarUnit 3
ResponderEliminarIn this unit we had the opportunty to learn more about what is assessment? how can we give feedback our student and that we need to know how to help our student that have different kind of responses in the development of the activities of the plan so this unit let us to know more about the interaction that we can apply with our student.
the last unit!!!
ResponderEliminarI have learnt a lot of things in this course, all the units tought me different points very important in my education. Blackboard gave me the opportunity to be independentin my education, It was a good experience because, we could learn an important subject that can help us in the future for example:
how can we design a online plan,e tivity design, electonic communication, how can we give feedback to our students and assesment etc..
I would like to have the opportunity to take and to design a course like this because it was a good experiencies for students and teacher, students learn to be responsible and independence in their knowledge and teacher has the ability to give feedback to solve their doubts
Hello Rocío,
ResponderEliminarThank you for your portfolio. I do ot see the reflection of unit 1. About your reflection of unit 3 and the last reflection I can tell you that they allow me to see that you understood the purpose of teh course and that it was something new learned through a nice experience.
Please send me the self-assessment that is in the course in teh information about the course copy it and send it to me. As soon as you send it to me I will post your grades in the Evaluación section in the course
We had the opportunity in the first unit to learn about the differences between distance education, open education and traditional education. This information just let us to know about the significance that the three concepts involve, because nowadays, we can see this information in our schools, so it´s very important to distinguish the different that each kind of education showes.
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