Effective practice: Learning Effectiveness

Learning technology

• Tools for enhancing learning effectiveness
  FernUniversitat Hagen's communication tools help distribute learning materials and reduce transmission costs. -- more
  
• IVC Online Student Resource Center
  The Illinois Virtual Campus provides a targeted online student service center to orient students to the online learning environment. -- more
  
• Courselets Designed for Custom Tutorials
  Stanford University uses courselets, self-contained, integrated sets of learning materials to enhance the learning experience for students and reduce the demand for faculty time. -- more
  
• Wizards: Student Tutors Help Peers Learn
  Mercy College's "wizards" are peer-to-peer mentors and collaborators that tutor students and assist professors. -- more
  
• Syllabus Display and Time on Task
  Troy State University--Montgomery posts detailed descriptions of program requirements to enable students to enroll in programs and courses that fit in their schedule. -- more
  
• Introduction to Course and Professor Welcomes Learners
  Washington State University uses brief RealPlayer videos to introduce the professor and his/her courses and help the students understand the courses objectives. -- more
  
• Seeing Course Requirements Before Enrolling Helps Students Manage Time
  Troy State University, Montgomery allows students to see the full detail of the syllabus before enrollment, which helps students and their advisors make better enrollment choices. -- more
  
• Social Presence Begins with Introductions
  At Florida State University, perceptions of learning effectiveness correlate with perceptions of social presence, thus providing social presence through opening introductions is helpful. -- more
  
• Repurposeable Learning Objects: the TALON Learning Object System
  Indiana University-Bloomington creates learning objects which can be easily reprogrammed to fit an instructor's need. -- more
  
• PBS/WGBH/Nova models The Elegant Universe with multimedia online
  Nova Science Programming's "The Elegant Universe" models effective multimedia, while narrating the Theory of Everything (T.O.E), also known as string theory: the theory of large and small. -- more
  
• Mentored Self-Paced Learning Works for Online K-12 Professional Development Courses
  The Learning To Teach with Technology Studio (LTTS) at the Indiana University School of Education uses a self-paced, one-on-one mentored format for more than 45 courses designed primarily to serve K-12 teacher professional development needs. -- more
  
• Creation of Focused Educational Planning Environment Meets Army Student Needs
  Empire State College developed a new Educational Planning course designed to focus and streamline the educational planning process for military students, helping to bridge them to an academic environment and adequately prepare them for academic success in upper level courses. -- more
  
• ViCTORY (Operation Virtual Counselor Transforms Online Resources for You) is eArmyU's model for Soldier academic support and success.
  Operation ViCTORY is a fully integrated proactive student support process that coordinates and promotes outreach to all eArmyU soldiers. -- more
  
• S.I.D.E. Road - Success in Distance Education
  Long Beach City College's "S.I.D.E. Road - Success in Distance Education" project assists current and prospective Distance Learning (DL) students, as well as faculty, in having a successful distance learning experience. -- more
  
• Accounting Online: Practical application of concepts using online resources (EDGAR)
  The development of financial reporting illustrations has been made easier through the use of internet resources and the Securities and Exchange Commission's EDGAR corporate information database. The effective use of financial reporting illustrations in accounting classes at the University of Massachusetts Lowell has helped to improve accounting education, students' satisfaction, and faculty satisfaction. -- more
  
• Transforming Traditional Education
  The University of Vermont College of Medicine transformed its new integrated curriculum by adding a wide variety of educational technology tools and applications to its courses. This transformation is being driven by COMET (College of Medicine Education Tools), a team of educational technologists that has helped to create a hybrid learning environment that includes reusable learning objects, virtual reality models, streaming audio and video, and online exams. -- more
  
• Online Executive MBA Orientation
  The Orientation course improves learning effectiveness because the content is geared towards learning important course navigation skills, practising online collaboration, and building student confidence for new graduate students. We are able to address student concerns and anxieties up front, before they start their academic courses, and we are able to ensure that students are set up properly in terms of the technology, so that they can start their first academic course (Strategic Management) and “hit the ground running.” -- more