The student textbook market will soon welcome another newcomer to the market in the form of a revamped Amazon Kindle, according to McAdams Wright Ragen analyst Tim Bueneman. If true, it will have to compete with a number of other digital textbook options, but has the potential to win students’ affections by changing the textbook […]
Welcome, Freshmen. Have an iPod.
Taking a step that professors may view as a bit counterproductive, some universities are doling out Apple iPhones and Internet-capable iPods to students. The always-on Internet devices raise some novel possibilities, like tracking where students congregate. With far less controversy, colleges could send messages about canceled classes, delayed buses, campus crises or just the cafeteria […]
Prof tweets about course, ends up moving whole class online
As more of the student population gets access to broadband connections, faculty at major universities are exploring how rich media and online interactivity can enhance, supplement, and even replace the classroom experience. In the latest development, a professor at the University of Texas at Dallas is going to experiment with replicating a graduate seminar online […]
And Then There Were Blogs
And Then There Were Blogs
I have worked at Golden West College, in Huntington Beach for the past ten years as an Instructional Associate and more recently as on Online Instructor, which prompted me to return to school. So, this past January I decided to“dive in” and begin the pursuit of my Master’s Degree in […]
Starved For Time: Leave the Pencil and Paper Behind
Starved For Time: Leave the Pencil and Paper Behind
By Philip Bogendyment
Philip teaches 4th grade at an elementary school in San Jacinto, CA and is presently completing his Masters of Education at California State University East Bay. He is convinced that online teaching and learning is effective and schools should put more effort into developing […]
I Just Like the Real Classroom
I Just Like the Real Classroom
By Jodi Gootkin
August 4, 2008
After enrolling in the MS-OTL program at CSU East Bay, I enthusiastically revised my online courses to include best practices and constructivist principles. I felt like Kevin Costner in Field of Dreams. If I build it, they will come. But, will they like playing on a […]
New Teachers: Alone in the Classroom, Together in the Chatroom
New Teachers: Alone in the Classroom, Together in the Chatroom
Flint Christensen teaches math at a middle school in Oakland, CA. He is also a candidate for a MS in Education, Option in Online Teaching & Learning from California State University, East Bay.
Introduction
New teachers enter their profession with wild-eyed optimism and equipped with an abundant […]
The Perfect Online Campus: What’s Missing
The Perfect Online Campus: What’s Missing
By Lisa Ramsey-Simpson
July 27, 2008
About the author: I have had the opportunity to take both online and face to face university classes. My first experience was over 10 years ago as a student of San Francisco State University. Although the campus and classes were great, I left San Francisco […]
U. of Phoenix Lets Students Find Answers Virtually
Kelsey seems like an average American town. Many of its 53,000 residents work in plastics for Riordan Manufacturing, a subsidiary of the Fortune 1000 company Riordan Industries. They give birth at the ordinary Patton-Fuller Community Hospital. On weekends they stroll through the historic downtown or stop by the gourmet grocery, Kudler Fine Foods. And Kelsey’s […]
Social Networking Gets Schooled
As a whole, the education industry is usually relatively slow to integrate technology into the classroom. In lots of schools nationwide, unbridled access to computers and the Internet is still the exception rather than the rule. Sure, school districts use computer networks, e-mail and teacher pages on school Web sites to more efficiently communicate with […]