Online Blogucation

Flu season is right around the corner and many are contemplating flu vaccines. However, as I’m dealing with yet another situation of academic dishonesty (which unfortunately seems to happen about once a semester… so hopefully this is it for a while!), I’m reminded of a great article from our Educator’s Voice newsletter on “Vaccinating against [...]

My summer courses are winding down again and I wanted to try something different for my final discussion topic where students reflect on what they’ve learned that term. I decided to try using Wordle as a visual tool for summarizing text, instead of simply using the typical discussion board posts.
For those of you who haven’t [...]

Questions about copyright and the fair use of copyrighted materials for education come up a lot during out work with educators on different campuses. I was planning on writing about this topic anyway, and then I came across a great resource that I knew I had to share. It’s an interactive guide to using multimedia [...]

In my last blog I discussed my steps towards joining Facebook (which, by the way, I have joined and love! I’ve even received a “monkey poop” gift from an anthropology colleague, but I digress…). One part of that discussion was the idea of personal versus professional space online, and I wondered how I would navigate [...]

Do you know the story of the student who kept taking his Final Exam after the class session ended?  The instructor of the large, Freshman lecture called for all tests to be turned in on her desk.  Every student complied, creating a very large stack, save one.  He just sat in his desk, writing and filling [...]

I had a conversation about online business programs with several hiring managers last week and the discussion turned to a comparison of online versus traditional brick and mortar programs. One business owner expressed a concern about not having any idea what took place in the online classroom.  I explained that everything online is documented so [...]

Do you want to play a game?  These words have been uttered in several movies to varying degrees of audienCe fright and delight.  From Joshua in War Games to Saw, as a (human) race, we seem fascinated by games.  Board games, basketball games, the Olympic games, head games, miNd games, digital games, children’s games, and [...]

A lot has been and will be written about Randy Pausch’s life and death.  Talk of his zest for life, his imagination, and his willingness to let the world watch his final (typically private) months of existence will be discussed for years.  And they should be. 
But I would like to look at a different [...]

Oprah.  Coke.  IBM.  These names are iconic.  The meta-communication surrounding these simple words is extensive!  A name can evoke an image of trust, friendship, or power.  Of course, a name can also instill anger, frustration, or pain!  (Think of your school’s rival college, a name like “Hitler”, etc.)  Back in the 1970’s, it was rumored that [...]

Welcome to the first eTeachers’ Blog from eCollege!
Technorati be advised!  The eCollege Academic Training & Consulting team is entering the world of blogging today!  What better place to begin our constructed entrance onto the Web than the CCA conference in Las Vegas?  I can’t think of a better way to kick off our addition to [...]