Online learning communities allow you access in your own time and space and provide opportunity to:
Not exact matches
Although the focus of the Rural Utilities Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture is on building the telecommunications infrastructure for rural
communities, their Distance
Learning and Telemedicine (DLT) Loans and Grants Program does provide funds for putting classes
online,
allows program manager Mark Seiler.
As might be expected,
online learning is part of the package, but course choice goes further: it
allows K — 12 students to
learn from unconventional providers that might range from top - tier universities or innovative
community colleges to local employers, labs, or hospitals.
One of the signature components of the course is that we developed a
learning environment that
allowed students to contribute to an
online community from accounts and sites that they controlled.
Moving these conversations from an internal wiki to a Ning
online social network
allowed us to move these conversations from our own private
learning community to a
community including hundreds of social studies educators.
In the new era where teachers have little time for face - to - face interaction with colleagues and district budget cuts limit professional development opportunities, educators are increasingly turning to
online communities (or professional
learning networks, PLNs) that
allow them to share lesson plans, teaching strategies, and student work, as well as collaborate across grade levels and departments.
Simply opening the doors to a wiki or other
online learning community without providing guidance and instruction will not
allow students to
learn how to sort through the vast amounts of information presented to them.
Moodle is a free, open - source Virtual
Learning Environment that allows educators throughout the world to create online learning comm
Learning Environment that
allows educators throughout the world to create
online learning comm
learning communities.
Our unique distributed
learning environment combines live
online instruction and self - directed
learning,
allowing you to pursue your degree while working full - time in your field, traveling, and / or living in your current
community.