Comments on: Emerging Technologies in Distance Education http://www.elearnspace.org/blog/2010/07/23/emerging-technologies-in-distance-education/ learning, networks, knowledge, technology, community Sat, 4 Feb 2012 22:56:23 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 By: George Veletsianos http://www.elearnspace.org/blog/2010/07/23/emerging-technologies-in-distance-education/comment-page-1/#comment-62043 George Veletsianos Sun, 25 Jul 2010 21:20:08 +0000 http://www.elearnspace.org/blog/?p=4909#comment-62043 Thanks George! I hope you find it worthwhile... Thanks George! I hope you find it worthwhile…

]]> By: gsiemens http://www.elearnspace.org/blog/2010/07/23/emerging-technologies-in-distance-education/comment-page-1/#comment-62022 gsiemens Sun, 25 Jul 2010 17:54:34 +0000 http://www.elearnspace.org/blog/?p=4909#comment-62022 Hi Sarah - with our courses, we took a variety of approaches: 1. RSS feeds 2. Google Alerts 3. Course hashtags 4. Central forum (Moodle) 5. Netvibes (in CCK08) Essentially, we tried to rely on a combination of social and technological approaches for sensemaking and wayfinding. The social systems - such as twitter conversation/tags - were a bit fuzzy, but ended up being valuable filtering tools. Hi Sarah – with our courses, we took a variety of approaches:

1. RSS feeds
2. Google Alerts
3. Course hashtags
4. Central forum (Moodle)
5. Netvibes (in CCK08)

Essentially, we tried to rely on a combination of social and technological approaches for sensemaking and wayfinding. The social systems – such as twitter conversation/tags – were a bit fuzzy, but ended up being valuable filtering tools.

]]> By: Sarah Stewart http://www.elearnspace.org/blog/2010/07/23/emerging-technologies-in-distance-education/comment-page-1/#comment-61849 Sarah Stewart Fri, 23 Jul 2010 18:51:12 +0000 http://www.elearnspace.org/blog/?p=4909#comment-61849 Hi George Complete change of topic. I am facilitating the open online course "Facilitating Online", which I am sure you know about...it was started by Leigh Blackall several years ago: http://wikieducator.org/Facilitating_Online It is sitting at about 60 people at the moment which is far bigger than I am used to. I know people will drop out, but do you have any tips or hints on the best way to manage these numbers other than the obvious ones like being very organised with RSS? thanks a lot, Sarah Hi George

Complete change of topic. I am facilitating the open online course “Facilitating Online”, which I am sure you know about…it was started by Leigh Blackall several years ago: http://wikieducator.org/Facilitating_Online

It is sitting at about 60 people at the moment which is far bigger than I am used to. I know people will drop out, but do you have any tips or hints on the best way to manage these numbers other than the obvious ones like being very organised with RSS?

thanks a lot, Sarah

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