The Center for Online Learning, Teaching & Technology hosted its first Innovations in Online Learning Luncheon for the Fall 2008 semester. To Access the archived presentation of "Considering Mobile Learning for your Institution", please click here, or access it by pasting the URL below into your web browser:

http://ai.acrobat.com/p24135081/

A copy of the web conference materials can be downloaded from the link(s) below:

Original Presentration

Thank you for attending this presentation. We hope to see you on our next luncheon.

Many colleges these days are trying hybrid or blended models of teaching in which students spend some time in a classroom but do some work online, and a new study suggests that students learn just as well as they do in a traditional course.

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We are working with the different teams to ensure that the transition to the new Banner student information system goes as smoothly as possible with regard to Blackboard and our Blackboard users. Your Fall 2008 courses will be available to you in Blackboard starting on Monday August 11, 2008. Please contact your instructional developer if you have any questions or concerns

Please submit your Blackboard Course Request at your earliest convenience to ensure that your Fall 2008 courses are available on time.

Rather, while the faculty expert must know how the information is relevant and how it should be worked and used, the students should be able to access the content in whatever form they find best for them - customization. This is an essential characteristic of an MMC. Mobile technology users do not take well to hyper control of their usage and likewise, this generation of learners should not be subjected to control of input in a course of study. Rather than see this as an unnecessary accommodation of the part of the faculty teacher, it is more to the point to realize how much further this takes the learning potential towards the realm of learner autonomy which has always been the goal of higher education.

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As you may know, there will be electrical power outages across campus to perform maintenance repairs and improvements to the campus electrical infrastructure throughout the weekend. The Center for Online Learning, Teaching and Technology will use this time to also perform maintenance on the Blackboard infrastructure.

The Blackboard server will be unavailable from Friday May 9, 2008 starting at 5:00pm. The server will be back online on Sunday May 11, 2008 at around 9:00pm

Thank you.

Simply providing online discussion forums is not enough to keep students engaged in virtual courses, according to educators who are well-versed in online instruction: For real learning to occur in an online setting, virtual-school educators must establish clear rubrics and enforce rules for participation.

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By Dian Schaffhauser

A technical report from a University of Houston

Department of Health and Human Performance

researcher finds that students in a hybrid class that incorporated instructional technology with in-class lectures scored a letter grade higher on average than their counterparts who took the same class in a more traditional format. Read More

Community colleges are increasingly finding that many of the issues they deal with on a day-to-day basis — retention and remedial education, to name two — are just as present among the students they don’t see as the ones who show up for class on campus. Read More