Washington State University's Use of ePortfolios
Washington State University (Pullman, Washington) has a Center for Teaching, Learning and Technology. The Web page referenced above reviews their use of ePortfolios. The Center promotes use of student portfolios, teaching portfolios, and program portfolios. As an administrator in Online Learning and also still an online teacher, I find the program portfolio to be most interesting. The main thrust is not in collecting forms and "evidence" for the portfolio, but to "highlight the alignment of learning outcomes on multiple scales." That's deep!
Sunday, August 8, 2010
Striving for Excellence - Innovations in Distance Learning
Delmar College's Distance Learning Program
Delmar College in Corpus Christi, Texas is a community college much like West Kentucky Community and Technical College in Paducah, Ky (my school). It has been used as a comparison in years gone by. In browsing their Web site, Delmar uses WebCT as their CMS. They also provide free Sloan-C workshops to the faculty (there is a listing of dates/topic of asynchronous sessions on the site). In addition, I found mention of Quality Matters as a standard of measuring quality.
Delmar College in Corpus Christi, Texas is a community college much like West Kentucky Community and Technical College in Paducah, Ky (my school). It has been used as a comparison in years gone by. In browsing their Web site, Delmar uses WebCT as their CMS. They also provide free Sloan-C workshops to the faculty (there is a listing of dates/topic of asynchronous sessions on the site). In addition, I found mention of Quality Matters as a standard of measuring quality.
Striving for Excellence - Innovations in Distance Learning
Traditional On-Ground Universities with Over-the-Top Online Offerings
Sit back and look at the Web sites of some of our greatest universities. Here are the links to two such schools, Harvard University and Vanderbilt University:
vucast Vanderbilt University's News Network
http://http://www.vanderbilt.edu/news/video/?xtags=latest-video
Both of these schools share a fantastic array of open courseware with the public. These can be found on itunes U or You TubeU.
Sit back and look at the Web sites of some of our greatest universities. Here are the links to two such schools, Harvard University and Vanderbilt University:
Harvard University (School of Medicine)
http://www.mycourses.med.harvard.edu/public/
vucast Vanderbilt University's News Network
http://http://www.vanderbilt.edu/news/video/?xtags=latest-video
Both of these schools share a fantastic array of open courseware with the public. These can be found on itunes U or You TubeU.
Striving for Excellence - Innovations in Distance Learning
Guide to Online Programs
This link provides the viewer with a list of colleges/schools that offer associate, bachelor, and/or master's degrees in the United States. These are the private schools that generally have high tuition. It is difficult to ascertain which is best unless the potential student is looking for a particular subject area. Then the student can check for accreditation of the chosen curriculum. Let me rephrase. As a 28-year educator, I know to do that. Does the student?
This link provides the viewer with a list of colleges/schools that offer associate, bachelor, and/or master's degrees in the United States. These are the private schools that generally have high tuition. It is difficult to ascertain which is best unless the potential student is looking for a particular subject area. Then the student can check for accreditation of the chosen curriculum. Let me rephrase. As a 28-year educator, I know to do that. Does the student?
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