University of Nebraska at Omaha
ITS Webinar: Many Students Loosely Joined: Social Software to Support Distance Education Learners
Monday, March 3, 2008 from 12:00-1:00pm in MBSC, Umoho Rm
Sponsored by Academic Partnership for Instruction (API)
Presented by Terry Anderson, Professor and Canada Research Chair in Distance Education, Athabasca University
Over the past decade, colleges and universities have increasingly turned to the web to increase student access, expand course offerings, and reach out to adult learners through online courses. The growth of distance and online education has been mirrored by a similar explosion in social software tools such as Facebook, Second Life, blogs, wikis, Flickr, and a host of Web 2.0 competitors that offer new ways for us to learn with and from each other. As our Web 2.0 toolbox grows, so do faculty and administrator concerns about control, privacy, assessment, and the effectiveness of these tools in the classroom.
In this seminar, Anderson will:
- Highlight an educational model for distance and online learning that leverages social software to help both learners and educators determine the most effective tool and granularity of application for their learning needs.
- Demonstrate a number of tools and share practices that promise to help us learn from and with each other with an emphasis on social learning that includes groups, networks, and the collective.
For more resources related to this session topic please go to EDUCAUSE Resources - http://www.educause.edu/ELIWEB083.
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ELI presents monthly web seminars which are screened live in the MBSC. Past seminars can be viewed on the ELI website at www.educause.edu/Archives/8996. Exact times for seminars are not always provided in advance, so please watch the FacConnect calendar for updates - www.unomaha.edu/facconnect/calendar.php.
Presented by EDUCAUSE, a nonprofit association whose mission is to advance higher education by promoting the intelligent use of information technology. If you have any questions please contact Jay Killion at 554-3758 or jaykillion@unomaha.edu.