Getting to know each other as three - dimensional people, is the foundation of building trust and presence for the teaching and learning experiences.
What is social presence?
100
Online journals usually constructed of posts arranged according to date.
What are blogs?
100
An essential course element provided to students before the course which is an outline or a summary of the main points of the course of study.
What is a syllabus?
100
A theorist who created a philosophy about a zone of proximal development that defines the space that the learner is ready to develop into useful and independent knowledge and skill. His philosophy says that "learning is a social activity that involves interaction with the instructor and among students. ”
Who is Vygotsky?
100
Another way to refer to a Course Management System.
What is CMS?
200
An example of this type of presence would be a question in the fi rst week of the course that asks the student to identify their learning goals for the course.
What is cognitive presence?
200
The most popular web site for posting short videos.
What is YouTube?
200
Summarizes the assessment activities for assessing student learning and ideally maps the assessment experiences to performance goals and requirements.
What is an assesment plan?
200
This Theorist emphasized the unique and individualized nature of interaction in the learning experience and is known by the philosophy of Experiencial Learning.
What is John Dewey (1859 - 1952)
200
The primary place where dialogue, discussion, and peer -to - peer interaction take place.
What is the Discussion Board or Discussion?
300
In Social Presence it is imperative that the________process is established at the social level so that the content discussions can be open and substantive.
What is trust-building?
300
Providing a virtual place to gather, meet, think out loud, learn, and practice. Examples include: Blackboard, Desire2Learn, Sakai, Moodle, and Webstudy.
What are Course Management Systems?
300
Sets of posts or questions, usually a set for each week, that focus on the course core concepts and performance goals. Students can reply and interact with each other and the facilitator through this element.
What are Discussions or Discussion Boards?
300
An American educational psychologist who currently is a senior research fellow at the NYU School of Law and known as a Constructivist.
What is Jerome Bruner (1915 - )
300
Blackboard, Moodle and Sakai
What are Course Maagement Systems (CMS)?
400
An online course consists of at least 2 major categories that include all of the course materials and all of the monitoring for growing knowledge of particular learners in a course.
What is Teaching Presence.
400
Quick and nearly synchronous typed communication. Examples include Twitter, SMS.
What is Text Messaging?
400
A set of introductions for each of the course topics and modules and setting out the requirements and specifications for student action and learning.
What is Teaching guides.
400
Regular and timely interaction of faculty with students is one of the key quality indicators of online courses.
What is Interaction and Presence as a Key Point of Satisfaction for Learners
500
______ is the most important best practice for an online course.
What is Presence?
500
Internet sites for gathering and sharing socially online. Examples include: Facebook, MySpace, Ning, and LinkedIn.