WK 1 Project:LMO Overview

Week 1-Comment on Brian Cross's Post

Nice summary of the article Brian. I completely agree with the author’s opinion in that academic writing should be a standard for high school students in the upper grades. I remember feeling lost in my first year in college for that very reason.

LMS-WK1-blog entry-ReadingThe Future Of E-Learning Is More Growth

The Future Of E-Learning Is More Growth

E-Learning rapidly growing, especially in North America and more specifically, the United States. Research done be the Ambient Insight Group, has shown that E-Learning, "by dollar volume reached $27.1 Billion in 2009" it's forecast to double by 2014. (Nagel, 2010)

The largest area of growth seems to be taking place in the Prek-12 and in higher education sector. (Nagel, 2010) The Ambient Insight group reports that the USA is leading in e-learning in cyber charter schools and virtual schools. For example, there is only one virtual school in Canada, (as of 2009) as opposed to the 200,00 students enrolled in virtual schools in the US in 2009. (Nagel, 2010) Furthermore, there are only two charter schools in Canada in which neither if them offer online classes, as opposed to the US in which there are over 185,000 children currently enrolled in cyber charter schools. (Nagel, 2010)

For profit education programs are being heavily marketed toward busy adults. The current economic climate is fueling a demand for vocational and career programs. The prek-12 sector is fueled by state and local education dollars.

References

Nagel, D. (2010). The Future Of E-Learning Is More Growth. Retrieved on September 5, 2010 fromhttp://campustechnology.com/Articles/2010/03/03/The-Future-of-E-Learning-Is-More-Growth.aspx?Page=3

Week 1 Comment on Q'sFSOBlog-"What Is An LMS"

Thanks for breaking the definition of LMS into layman's terms! I suppose we all had a little taste of how to create a LMS in our Education Design and Evaluation class in month 4 when we had to break into groups and create education design modules. It truly was a learning experience to share files in google docs to create a cohesive site.

Wimba Session 2

Another thorough overview of the next four weeks. Thanks for explaining in depth what exactly a literature review is. I think my main problem in writing the lit review is trying to stay neutral. Your "talk show host" metaphor was particularly helpful. I'm also still a bit confused about the indentations question that a classmate brought up during the session. I would love to find the answer before Sunday!

Pre-Wimba Session 1

I'm looking forward to the month. I appreciated how we were walked through the syllabus in detail. The reading seems a bit daunting however, I'm always up for a challenge!

BP13_PeerReview_Alveraz, A.J.

"I recently had students create Family Trees for a project that wrapped up a unit on the parts of the family. To make this a more interesting and interactive project (had I known about Glogster then) I would have had students create their posters using Glogster and requiring students to include one media asset of either video or audio. This might have been more accessible to many of my students as so much of the photos that they used to illustrate their family trees were printed especially for the project. Most students had taken their photos using digital cameras. This might be a more interesting and accessible way of creating posters for my digital natives.

I love this idea and am definitely going to incorporate this into one of my lessons. I'm thinking this would be particularly good for my advisory class. What a wonderful idea. Thanks for the great idea!