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  Thoughts on digital facilitation: Clear and direct teaching presence is perhaps the most critical element in a fully online course. Social presence can emerge in a digital setting, but promoting one should not trump, nor supersede cognitive presence. Participatory… Continue Reading →

Team 1’s Facilitation Plan Team Members: Earl Einarson, Susan Nassiripour, Lisa Gates, Tala Mami, Laren Helfer   Given the topic ‘Ways in which emerging digital technologies could influence facilitation’, we decided on the following learning outcome: Identify an emerging technology… Continue Reading →

“Once community is established, the more likely deep and meaningful learning will occur” (Vaughan et al., 2013). The Community of Inquiry (CoI) model rests on this understanding, that learning is deeper when it occurs socially.  The idea that learning is… Continue Reading →

When asked to articulate and then refine a ‘problem of practice’ from my current professional life, I didn’t have to contemplate very long to identify a challenge I was currently facing. As an instructor in higher education, I (along with… Continue Reading →

Educational institutions must be prepared to cope with and embrace change. The dynamic nature of emerging technologies which are becoming more prevalent in today’s’ learning environments demands educational institutions not only be able to deal with change, but also to… Continue Reading →

Mark is an air traffic controller, responsible for training and qualifying aspiring air traffic controllers. As the instructional supervisor he is responsible for the development of all terminal air traffic control instructors. He is routinely involved in both the development… Continue Reading →

By Sharon Ambata-Villanueva  and Laren Helfer Health information management is an important consideration in the delivery of healthcare. Given that we (as partners in this activity) both work with health information systems in our professional lives, we identified a mutual… Continue Reading →

In light of my prior blog post (about the history of Ed-Tech, where I referenced how potential gains in the field weren’t always fully recognized and why that might be), I chose to showcase here an example of Ed-Tech done… Continue Reading →

In comparing Reiser’s account of significant events in the past 100 years or so of educational technology, with Weller’s account of the 20 subsequent years, one theme which seemed to resurface again and again in both articles was that of… Continue Reading →