California Virtual Campus

By Herb Centeno
Introduction
As I began thinking about the importance of interactivity in on-line learning, the memory of a green plastic screen and a conversation I had with “Clarabelle” came back to me. The green screen was my first experience with an interactive medium for learning, and it obviously had quite an impact on me. In […]

The Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) reported the following benefits after conducting a test pilot to evaluate student achievement resulting from educational gaming:
• Reinforcement of Cognitive Skills
• Helping Students Understand Abstract Concepts
• Improved 21st Century Literacy
• Increased Motivation
• Timeliness and Feedback
• Support for the Core Curriculum
• Learning How to Take risks and deal with losing in a safe environment
While CoSN […]

Leadership Training and Online Learning; are these the equivalent to oil and water?
Online training or “e-learning” is here to stay. With higher costs of production and lost time to attend a face-to-face (F2F) or Instructor Lead Training (ILT) classes, organizations are learning to adapt and cope to the high cost of running a business […]

Debbie Wilson
California State University, East Bay
February 8, 2008
My finger hovered just above the “enter” key on my computer keyboard, then moved away, hovered again, and finally pressed the key that added my name to the roster for EDUI 7801, Introduction to Online Teaching and Learning. My reluctance to seal the deal gave me pause […]

Making Continuation Communities Count
Mark Hemauer
California State University, East Bay
February 7, 2008
Introduction
Oh…you work at THAT school, is a phrase I often hear when introducing myself to fellow educators in my school district. THAT school is a small continuation high school that is part of the district’s alternative education program where I am planning to start […]

The Dilemma
I’m a civil servant working for the Department of the Navy as an instructor trainer. A trainer’s main objective is to help prospective instructors gain the basic skills necessary to be effective on-ground communicators. The course seats twenty-four using an Automated Electronic Classroom (AEC) and lasts for two weeks while running concurrently […]

How to Keep ‘Em Coming Back: The Social Element […]

Where Have All the Students Gone: What Instructors and Institutions Can Do to Minimize Attrition in Online Courses
Margaret C. Mayfield
California State University, East Bay
Introduction
As the semester begins at my community college, instructors are thrilled to see class rosters with high enrollments. But as time progresses, students fade away, and the class numbers dwindle. […]

 By Marsha Haynes
Increasing Interactivity for Greater Community Engagement among Online LearnersAdvances in technology are amazing.  More convenient and faster ways of staying connected are developed each year.  However, as more institutions adopt new online technology as a means of reaching increasing numbers of students and providing efficient low cost cyber-classrooms, educators and course designers must […]

Taking a Class Online and Making the Team
Stacy Maxin is an eighth grade Social Science teacher in Southern California. She has taught secondary Social Science as a traditional classroom teacher for over 12 years. Currently, she has embarked on a new learning odyssey working toward a Master of Science in Education, Option in Online Teaching […]