I ran across this in my inbox today. If you’re going to ISTE in June 2010, then this may be worth your day.
Don’t miss out on the Early Bird Registration for the ETLO/SREB/ISTE Online Learning Institute! Early Bird registration ends Friday, May 1! To reserve your seat at the $99 early bird price, register today to join your colleagues for an outstanding agenda including:
• engaging presentations by Chris Lehmann, Principal of the Science Leadership Academy, and Chris Dede, Timothy E. Wirth Professor in Learning Technologies, Harvard Graduate School of Education
• panel presentation by online learning leaders
• roundtable discussions with colleagues led by knowledgeable and informed practitioners and mangers of online learning programs
The Online Learning Institute, a special event at the ISTE 2010 conference, is co-sponsored by ETLO, SREB and ISTE. Please join us Wednesday, June 30, from 8:00 a.m. until 3:00 p.m. at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Denver, CO. Breakfast and lunch are included in the registration fee.
You can view the full agenda, which is updated regularly, at http://onlinelearninginstitute.wikispaces.com
and we invite you to register now at http://center.uoregon.edu/ISTE/NECC2009/pr…sionid=43757806.
On the registration page, click Register Now for This Event, click either “register now” or “reaccess your registration” to add the event. Look for and add the Online Learning Institute, listed as a special
event on Wednesday. Registration is $125 which includes breakfast, lunch, session notes and audio. Early bird registration, available until May 1, is $99.
For more information, contact Barbara Treacy, ETLO, btreacy@edc.org, Leinda Peterman, ETLO, lpeterman@edc.org, or Jamie Sachs, SREB, jamie.sachs@sreb.org
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My Shared Items for March 8th through April 8th:
Clarity by Jon Wiley
After reading Mark Bethelemy’s post Online learning: how not do it, I was inspired to write a post on how to absolutely fail at K-12 online learning. Some of these examples are real and, well, some are contrived, but I think we can learn from them all. As I often say, I learned more about teaching online from having bad instructors than I did from any book or blog post I have ever read.
- Make sure you rush to throw your program together In fact, make sure that you don’t have any of the pieces in place until after the semester begins and then roll it out mid-semester.
- Don’t bother to train your staff Teaching K-12 online is just like teaching in a K-12 classroom, right? Also, make sure that you don’t allocate any time throughout the year for follow up professional development whether face-to-face or online.
- Make sure you maintain high student-to-staff ratios Something on order of 100:1 in a course ensures that your students will be able to cruise through the course will minimal interaction with the teacher. Teachers that like tons of email and just grading student work will love these ratios.
- Design your curriculum and activities with the least amount of interaction possible You should really make sure that the students don’t have to interact with the teacher or other students in the course. This will help with student retention–which you want to be as low as possible
- Don’t provide a way for students to build community We know that students are too social and will never learn if they’re chatting about nonsense in a discussion forum. It’s better to not provide any place for this in your online course than take the chance they will learn informally from one another. After all, you’re the expert and they should only be learning from you, right?
- Don’t recognize individual student needs This is easily accomplished by delivering a one-size-fits-all curriculum to all students.
- Select an LMS that is fraught with problems This is critical in your mission to fail at implementing an online learning program. The more problems the better. Also, it’s good to make sure that the user interface (UI) is as complex and user unfriendly as possible.
- Don’t provide parents and students with any technical support This is a no-brainer. It’s 2010 and everyone should already know how to use a computer/mobile device, etc.
This tongue-in-cheek list is definitely a work in progress and certainly has applications well beyond K-12 online learning. If you would like to add to it, then please leave me a comment.
