Author Archives: Patrick Lowenthal

Creating and facilitating effective discussions in online courses

Help me with an upcoming session I have with a group of online educators on creating and facilitating online discussions!

I am interested in what practitioners do to create, facilitate, and assess effective online discussions.

Are you an online educator and/or course designer? If so, do you have a few minutes to share a tip, an example, and/or resource for how you effectively use online discussions?

If so, please complete this short GOOGLE FORM or if you prefer, jump into this GOOGLE DOC.

I will share what I end up with!

Patrick

 

Call for Chapters: Social Media: Influences on Education

Social media is not only used for pedagogical and social purposes, but has also caused educators to lose jobs due to unprofessional postings and, among students, cyberbullying has become a problem. Thus, social media is a multi-faceted tool that can be used in ways both beneficial and detrimental, with many unexplored applications. We invite proposals for chapters on the many ways in which educators are investigating the effects of social media on education, broadly construed. We welcome original empirical or review projects; essays are not acceptable for the scope of this book.

Proposals should be typed and a maximum of 500 words, providing information on the chapter focus (including brief overview of method for empirical submissions).

Authors of accepted proposal will be asked to review one to three manuscripts for the book.

Proposal deadline is October 15, 2019 and proposals should be sent to Marlynn Griffin and Cordelia Zinskie, mgriffin@georgiasouthern.edu and czinskie@georgiasouthern.edu

Call for Presenters – IETA 2020

Hi,

The IETA is seeking proposals from technologists, educators, subject-matter experts, consultants, and corporate partners to present at our 2020 annual conference “The Future is Clear” to be held at the Boise Centre in Boise, ID, February 3-5, 2020.The IETA strives to deliver pertinent, innovative, and informative content to Idaho educational leaders including administrators, librarians, teachers, technology directors, technology staff, trainers, and instructional coaches. Presentations should be informative and targeted to the anticipated audience or a sub group of the anticipated attendees.

We are looking for a wide variety of content to reach the varied audience of 1000+ expected to attend (educators, leaders, technologists). If you have information, ideas, best practices, or valuable experience to share, we would love to hear from you. Click this link to submit a session proposal.

Submissions will be reviewed by the IETA conference committee. The committee will select proposals to cover a wide range of topics and to ensure that adequate content is available for all audiences anticipated to attend. Selected proposals will be notified of their acceptance.

Presenters receive free conference registration as well as lunch each day.

Session proposals are due September 30th.

Submit a Session Proposal

Call for Papers: Special issue in Smart Learning Environments Journal: Towards enhancing learning using open educational resources

Thematic Series on Towards Enhancing Learning Using Open Educational Resources

Special issue in Smart Learning Environments Journal: Towards enhancing learning using open educational resources

Submission deadline: September 30, 2019

Since OER were adopted at the 2012 World OER Congress (Paris declaration), there has been increasing interest worldwide in open education initiatives. Many institutions have started providing open courses for students in countries and institutions worldwide. Learners can access OER from anywhere at anytime. New automatic learning assessment applications are being implemented using Artificial Intelligence (AI) can provide smart examinations and learning. Adaptive learning for students is still in its infancy. This special issue will focus on pedagogy, tools, policies and strategies to enhance learning using OER. The topics for this issue are varied and include but are not limited to:

  • Learning pedagogy and assessment in OER;
  • Application of AI in OER;
  • Adaptive learning using OER;
  • Open Licensing;
  • State of the art of OER;
  • Guidelines and frameworks for adoption of OER;
  • Authoring tools for open education;
  • OER and Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs);
  • Inclusive OER for students with special needs; and
  • Case studies of using open education in schools/universities

Guest editors:

Dr. Huang Ronghuai, Smart Learning Institute of Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China

Dr. Ahmed Tlili, Smart Learning Institute of Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China

Dr. Mohamed Jemni, Arab League Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization (ALECSO), Tunis, Tunisia

Dr. Rory McGreal, Athabasca University, Canada

For more information: https://slejournal.springeropen.com/oer