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 The Stephens Group Fall Professional Development Catalog is now available. Click here to download the catalog.
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Visit the Tech Literacy 103 Portal
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 In Technology Literacy 103, participants take on a leadership role by utilizing social networking tools to create online tutorials to help others in their organizations learn to use technology.
So far students have used tools such as Slideshare, VoiceThread, Camtasia, Jing, PowerPoint, and Scribd to create their online tutorials.
Projects range from teaching users how to create a blog, how to create an online survey on a blog, how to use a school district's student management system, indexing a podcast in iTunes, how to utilize a district wiki, and how to use the social bookmarking tool Diigo.
Student work is showcased on our course wiki at http://podetcsocialnetworking.wikispaces.com/Final+Projects .
The next time this course will be offered is October 5th-30th. More information is available at http://www.podetc.com/technology-103 .
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Education Tools for the 21st Century
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In an online article published by the Center for American Progress, the following five design principals were given for developing strong online courses:
- Develop courses to educational, university, and labor market certification standards
- Promote broad-based development partnerships that ensure the widest possible adoption of courses by providers
- Use a common design architecture that permits course sharing, customizing, and updating
- Develop both stand-alone and faculty-mediated courses
- Provide for rigorous assessment of learning outcomes in each course
Click here to read the full article
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Evaluation of Evidence-Based Practices in Online Learning
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A
study conducted by the US Department of Education was just released in May of 2009 on the
effects of online learning on student achievement. Meta-analysis of all
of the studies on education found that, on average, students in online learning
conditions performed better than those receiving face-to-face instruction. It compared three groups of learners-traditional face-to-face
learners, online learners, and learners who had hybrid experiences. The
findings were that the students in hybrid classrooms did the best, followed by
online learners.
Click here to download the report
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