Distance Education
My distance learning experience prior to starting courses at Walden was minimal; all of my undergrad courses were at traditional brick-and-mortar institutions. I did substitute at an alternative class...
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Example 3: In an effort to improve its poor safety record, a biodiesel manufacturing plant needs a series of safety training modules. These stand-alone modules must illustrate best practices on how to...
View ArticleThe Impact of Open Source
Electricity and Magnetism Professor Walter Lewin http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/physics/8-02-electricity-and-magnetism-spring-2002/index.htm I chose to preview MIT’s Electricity and Magnetism (Lewin, 2002)...
View ArticleConverting from Traditional Classroom to Hybrid Course
Converting from Traditional Classroom to Hybrid Course While converting your training modules to an online format may seem like an easy task there are many considerations that need attention. A...
View ArticleReflection EDUC 6135
The perception of distance learning is constantly evolving; my own view has changed considerably in the past year. Honestly, I chose an online program because I have no choice. Simply put, I just could...
View ArticleProject Post Mortem
About four years ago I began work on a concept I had come up with for an online daily planner for teachers. I made a framework and talked with colleagues about the need. Basically, it was...
View ArticleCommunicatiing Effectively
The email that was sent came across as “desperately polite’ to me. The sender obviously must have been frustrated, but went out of her way to be as respectful as possible. She indicated that she knew...
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This week’s blog assignment we were tasked with conducting a web search and finding two resources that would be useful in estimating the cost, effort and activity durations associated with ID projects....
View ArticleScope Creep
I am going to re-hash a post I made in the beginning of November because it hits on a form of scope creep that isn’t too common. Although the scope creep consisted of the common addition of new...
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