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In
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Preface How we teach adults has evolved over the years. At one time, nearly all adult education was either face-to-face or through correspondence courses. Then came radio broadcasts and educational television. With the advent of the Internet, we are seeing more adult education moving online. While much of this has been at the university and community colege-level, it will not be long before more and more local Extension offices and high school-based adult educators are offering educational programs over the Internet. The readings this week are designed to get you started thinking about this technology. There is definitely movement in this direction (at all educational levels); therefore, it is an area that will continue to evolve and we, as educators, will continue to learn. |
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Read Chapter 14 "Distance Learning with Adults" in Efffective Adult Learning by Birkenholz. This chapter gives a good overview of the history and development of distance education. This reading can be found in the Class 13 folder in WebCT Vista. |
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White and Birdwell discuss distance education and distance learning techniques in this chapter from Adult Learning Methods (1998, 2nd. ed.) edited by Michael Galbraith. This article is a little dated considering the advances made in distance education and technology; however, the concepts discussed are still valid today. This reading can be found in the Class 13 folder in WebCT Vista. |
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Cercone
examines the characteristics
of adult learners and their implications for online learning design
in this 2008 AACE Journal
article. |
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Dromgoole and Boleman
analyze Extension Agent's perceived barriers
and opportunities related to distance education and Extension
program delivery in this 2006 Journal
of Extension article. |
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We have previously
discussed the importance of social interaction with adult
learners. In this Journal of
Extension article from 2004, Burkhart-Kriesel and Caine, discuss
how Extension
has evolved in its methods to facilitate social interaction from
the early potluck suppers to the online seminars of today. |
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The discussion
board for the next two classes is not
required; however, please feel free to comment to the questions
or statements posted. |
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Additional Resources:
Items in this section are supplemental. Included may be other points of interest or different approaches related to the topic. |
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following are just some of the more popular technologies and tools that
are being utilized by business and educational communities. Can you
think of interesting or unique ways that these tools could improve or
expand you education efforts? please note-most of the tool descriptions are from company websites. |
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Elluminate, Inc. provides proven, best-in-class solutions for real-time online learning and collaboration that deliver exceptional outcomes Elluminate has served more than 300 million web-collaboration minutes to over 3 million teachers and students located in 185 different countries. Check out this instruction guide for Elluminate users. |
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Often in work and research we need to be able to create and administer questionaires. There is a free, easy to use site on the web called SurveyMonkey. NC State also offers a free questionaire creation site. Both enable users to create their own Web-based surveys. | |
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Polycom, Inc. is a manufacturer of telepresence, teleconferencing and videoconferencing equipment. Polycom creates value by removing the distance in today's companies with offices worldwide. This helps improve overall efficiency and performance by implementing the most life-like and highly productive communications and remote meetings. | http://www.polycom.com/ |
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http://www.apple.com..http://podcast.com/http://www.gopack.com/ (search podcast) |
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RSS (Rich Site Summary) or Really Simple Sindication--is a format for delivering regularly changing web content. It allows you to easily stay informed by retrieving the latest content from the sites you are interested in, but you don't need to visit each site individually. You ensure your privacy, and don't need to join each site's email newsletter. The number of sites offering RSS is growing and includes big names like Yahoo News. |
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Twitter is a service
for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay
connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple
question: What are you doing? |
http://twitter.com/ |
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