[Air-L] online learning evaluation
Murray Turoff
murray.turoff at gmail.com
Sat Aug 22 13:47:26 PDT 2009
Any one interested in online learning and the good evaluations that
were done should get the book that roxanne was first editor of and
which summarized all the findings based upon the many evaluation
studies sponsored over two decades of online learning. check her
website
http://is.njit.edu/hiltz for the references under "virtual classroom"
she also had a book in the 80's called "virtual classroom" which
covered the early work.
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> 1. eies nostalgia (Barry Wellman)
> 2. F2F, Hybrid, Online Efficacy Research (Charlie Balch)
> 3. 14-yr-old Teen blogger's top ten pet peeves of Facebook
> behavior (Yosem Companys)
> 4. Re: F2F, Hybrid, Online Efficacy Research (Kevin Guidry)
> 5. NewBook > Toys to Tools: Connecting Student Cell Phones to
> Education (McKiernan, Gerard [LIB])
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> Message: 1
> Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 18:41:48 -0400
> From: Barry Wellman <wellman at chass.utoronto.ca>
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> Subject: [Air-L] eies nostalgia
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> Murray, et al, I agree with you (and am thinking fondly back to the 1970s)
> that EIES was the best system, with the default being signed, but also
> allowing for pseudonyms and anonymity on demand -- providing anonymous
> posts could be tracked when libelous.
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> Barry Wellman
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> Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 16:30:47 -0700
> From: "Charlie Balch" <charlie at balch.org>
> To: <air-l at listserv.aoir.org>
> Subject: [Air-L] F2F, Hybrid, Online Efficacy Research
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> I've read much about how students claim to prefer F2F but sign up for online
> classes. However, I am not much about which instructional modalities are
> most effective. I'd appreciate some references regarding the comparative
> efficacy of F2F, Online, and hybrid instruction.
>
> I appreciate that many factors are involved and instructional efficacy is
> not a well defined construct. I also know that hybrid classes are in
> fashion.
>
> My particular interest is in comparisons of these methods for teaching
> computer programming but would appreciate anything that's a good read. I'm
> also interested in opinions based on experience.
>
> For what it is worth, I find teaching completely online has the best student
> learning outcomes.
>
> Thanks,
> Charles Balch PhD
> Charles.balch at azwestern.edu
> Professor of Computer Information Systems
> Arizona Western College
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> Message: 3
> Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 22:30:43 -0400
> From: Yosem Companys <ycompanys at gmail.com>
> To: aoir list <air-l at aoir.org>,
> stanford-persuasive-technology-lab at googlegroups.com
> Subject: [Air-L] 14-yr-old Teen blogger's top ten pet peeves of
> Facebook behavior
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>>
>> My name's Izzie. I'm a fourteen (almost fifteen) year old girl, entering
>> the years of highschool and jobs and driving and life. Good years of my life
>> have past. Are the best yet to come? Find out with me.
>
>
>> I have come up with a list of teen trends that are boring, stupid,
>> irritating, or all of the above. I hope you enjoy reading this as much as I
>> enjoyed trashing everyone else's hobbies.
>
>
>> So behold: In no particular order, top ten teen trends I really, really
>> hate.
>
>
>> http://bit.ly/2HzwQB
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> Message: 4
> Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 00:40:25 -0400
> From: Kevin Guidry <krguidry at gmail.com>
> To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org
> Subject: Re: [Air-L] F2F, Hybrid, Online Efficacy Research
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> As a mere PhD student (our "credentials" discussion is fresh in my
> mind), I feel compelled to prominently proclaim that I am not speaking
> on behalf of my employer or colleagues but offering my own viewpoint
> and opinions.
>
> On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 7:30 PM, Charlie Balch<charlie at balch.org> wrote:
>> I'd appreciate some references regarding the comparative
>> efficacy of F2F, Online, and hybrid instruction.
>
> We've looked at this a few times in my shop, Indiana University's
> Center for Postsecondary Research. We annually administer several
> large scale surveys, most prominently the National Survey of Student
> Engagement (NSSE), and occasionally we've focused on technology as it
> relates to our measures of engagement and other proxy measures of
> learning. We've been conducting the NSSE for 10 years now and I'm
> starting to compile all of our technology-related work. It seems that
> every time we look at this issue there is a significant positive
> correlation between technology use and nearly every thing we measure.
> Our most recent work, which I presented a few months ago at the
> meeting of the American Education Research Association, focused
> specifically on how the relative number of online courses relates to
> the things we measure. Even when we controlled for a bunch of things
> (age, gender, enrollment status, major, institution type, etc.) the
> same generally positive correlations remained: increased use of
> technology positively correlated with measures of engagement and
> learning. Our paper can be found at
> http://cpr.iub.edu/uploads/Engaging%20Online%20Learners.pdf if anyone
> is interested in digging into this more.
> But "technology is good!" isn't a very useful or nuanced finding,
> right? We're continuing to dig in to this more; we have another large
> set of data from this year's survey we're working to analyze. We
> asked more specific and different questions this time around so we
> should learn some new things. But we're also pretty limited by our
> methods and resources. We can make some really good generalizations
> with really impressive numbers of respondents but we can't ever answer
> the "why" and "how" questions.
>
>> I appreciate that many factors are involved and instructional efficacy is
>> not a well defined construct.
>
> The things in which we're all really interested are very subtle and
> hard to define much less measure. Many, many things are conflated and
> confused. And it's difficult and often irresponsible to generalize
> findings.
>
>
> Kevin
>
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> Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 13:03:38 -0500
> From: "McKiernan, Gerard [LIB]" <gerrymck at iastate.edu>
> To: <air-l at listserv.aoir.org>
> Cc: "McKiernan, Gerard \[LIB\]" <gerrymck at mail.adp.iastate.edu>
> Subject: [Air-L] NewBook > Toys to Tools: Connecting Student Cell
> Phones to Education
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> Colleagues/
>
>
>
> A Most Excellent Friday PM (CT) Discovery !
>
>
>
> /Gerry
>
>
>
> Toys to Tools: Connecting Student Cell Phones to Education. Liz Kolb /
> International Society for Technology in Education / 2008 / ISBN
> 978-1-56484-247-3 / 240 pp. / $ 24.45 (Member)
>
>
>
> Liz Kolb / International Society for Technology in Education / 2008 /
> ISBN 978-1-56484-247-3 / 240 pp. / $ 24.45 (Member)
>
>
>
>>>>General Table Of Contents<<<
>
>
>
> Introduction
>
> Chapter 1 > Cell Phones as Learning Tools
>
> Chapter 2 > Concerns with Cell Phones in the Classroom
>
> Chapter 3 > Conferencing, and Mobile Notes
>
> Chapter 4 > Cell Phones as Cameras and Camcorders
>
> Chapter 5 > Developing Classroom Projects for Cell Phones
>
> Chapter 6 > Cell Phones as Research and Organizational Tools
>
> Chapter 7 > Cell Phones as Management Tools
>
> Chapter 8 > Cell Phones in Preschool and Lower Elementary Learning
>
> Chapter 9 > The Future of Cell Phones in Schools
>
> Chapter 10> More Web 2.0 Resources for Cell Phones
>
> References
>
> National Educational Technology Standards for Students (NETS)
>
> Index
>
> Credits
>
>
>
> Links To
>
>
>
>>Detailed Table Of Contents Available
>
>
>
>>Chapter Excerpts
>
>
>
>>Introduction; Chapter 1: Cell Phones as Learning Tools, Chapter 2:
> Concerns with Cell Phones in the Classroom. (PDF, 23 pages)
>
>
>
>>Associated Webinar
>
>
>
> >From Toy to Tool: Cell Phones in Learning > A Conversation About
> Integrating Student Cell Phones Into Classroom Curricula / Liz Klob Blog
>
>
>
>
>>Cell Phones in Learning With Liz and Jeff (blogtalkradio)
>
>
>
> Available At
>
>
>
> [ http://tinyurl.com/l2xy6l ]
>
>
>
> EnJOY!
>
>
>
> /Gerry
>
>
>
> Gerry McKiernan
>
> Associate Professor
>
> Science and Technology Librarian
>
> Iowa State University Library
>
> Ames IA 50011
>
>
>
> gerrymck at iastate.edu
>
>
>
> There Are No Answers, Only Solutions / Olde Irish Saying
>
>
>
> The Future Is Already Here, It's Just Not Evenly Distributed /
>
> Attributed To William Gibson, SciFi Author / Coined 'Cyberspace
>
>
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