Archives - July, 2018

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What is Digital Citizenship? – Online Network of Educators

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Aloha Sargent and James Glapa-Grossklag

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Once you learn that an algorithm determines these hits, does that impact what you ask students to research? When you require students to use TurnItIn, do you tell them what happens to their intellectual property?  If you require students to use publisher courseware, do you know how publishers use the data they’re gathering?

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Context Matters

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Oliver Dreon, Ph.D.

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If you’re a teacher, I’m sure you’ve had this experience. You teach a lesson with one group of students, and it works great. The students are motivated and engaged. The technology works correctly. The activities you planned all make sense Read More >

IMPLEMENTING OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES

Impacts of Open Educational Resources

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Oliver Dreon, Ph.D.

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Regular readers of this blog know that I’ve been trumpeting the use of Open Educational Resources (OERs) for years. For the most part, I promote OERs because they’re free for students and faculty to use. I work at a public Read More >

Emerging Ideas Group at OLC Innovate 2018

After attending OLC conferences for several years, I had become well-versed in both online learning and also in the variety of conferences in our field and was able to start identifying clear-cut features for the conferences I liked. Here are some of the most beneficial conference features that I’ve found during my almost two decades in the field of online and digital learning:

Summer Reading List for Online and Digital Learning Topics

My Summer Reading List

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Oliver Dreon, Ph.D.

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This is always one of the more popular posts that I write each year. Each May, I share the academic books that I’m planning to tackle this summer in preparation for the next academic year. If you’re interested in what Read More >