About Me
Michael Edwards is an Instructional Designer for the Center for Distance Education at Rhodes State College.This blog contains his thoughts on various elearning resources, pedagogy, technology, and web 2.0 as well as feeds from some of his favorite resources.
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Sloan-C: Great Ideas series
Great Ideas series
A series of short (10 minute) presentations of ideas and tools for blended learning.
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Sloan-C: Blending With Purpose
Blending With Purpose
Anthony “Tony” G. Picciano facilitated a panel that included George Otte (City University of New York), Karen Vignare (Michigan State University) and Tony himself.
Before the panel format began, Tony talked a bit about the emergence of blended/hybrid courses over the past 6 or 7 years. Tony had put together a multimodal model of [...]
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Sloan-C: Welcome & Introductions
Sloan-C Blended Workshop
Mary Niemiec kicked things off at the 2009 Sloan-C Blended Workshop by speaking a bit about the evolution of blended learning. “When we first started it was an invited 30 people. Blended learning wasn’t well defined (hybrid? tech-advanced?).”
“It took almost two years to agree on a common definition that seems to be permeating [...]
Attending: Sloan-C Workshop on Blended Learning
I will be attending the Sloan-C Workshop on Blended Learning and Higher Education this weekend hosted by the University of Illinois at Chicago in Lisle, Illinois.
You can find more information on the conference page, but during the event I will be:
Blogging from this elearning blog.
Tweeting from my twitter account, http://twitter.com/medwardsrhodes.
Recording video on my Flip Mino [...]
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Blogging In Education
I am presenting to some Allied Health faculty today on using Blogs in education. Check out the pdf:
Blogging In Education – (PDF 1.6MB)
LLT09: Responses & Reflection
I’d like to hear others’ thoughts about this year’s Learning, Libraries + Technology conference.
Here are some potential prompts:
What sessions did you attend? What did you think of them?
Was there any technique/technology/idea that has stuck in your mind that you might consider implementing in a course?
If you were there for the keynote on Monday, what did [...]
RAD133 Welcome Video
I used a Flip Mino HD ($229!!) to shoot this welcome video to RAD133. Edited in iMovie ‘09 (I like the new typography options in ‘09.)
LLT09: Quality Matters – Collaborations in Quality
Connie Molnar, Brenda Boyd, Mark Karamol, Paul Bowers, Sheryl Hansen & Leslie King led a panel presentation/discussion about the Quality Matters consortia.
Quality Matters is “both a process and a (not-for-profit) service.” An inter-institutional peer review for improving online course design. It is a collaboration on rubrics, standards, support, and more.
QM does a lot of work [...]
Sloan-C: Designing for a Blended Community of Inquiry