ETC655

Education Today & Tomorrow-Your Guide to ONLE &PLE Best Practices   Educational Technology master students from ETC655 Fall 2019 class publish an eBook in PDF format. With the concept of Open Educational Resource (OER) in mind, it is free to download.   This eBook would benefit educators who have interests in integrating online technology to support their online instructions. In addition, any digital learners could use this book to support their learning by creating digital personal learning environments.  Any NAU students, faculties, and staff would find this book useful to their formal learning, non-formal learning, and informal learning.   Please share this great achievement with others.   Regards, Chih *************************************************************** Chih-Hsiung Tu, Ph.D., Professor, Educational Technology College of Education, Northern Arizona University PO Box 5774, Flagstaff, AZ 86011 Phone: 928-52...

Dear ETC655 Students,   The final grades have been posted in the grade book on BBLearn.  Please check your grade on BBLearn ASAP.  If you have questions on your grade, please contact me by midnight Wednesday, 12/18/2019 .  Otherwise, I will assume you agree with your grade if I don't hear from you.   Have you seen the finalized eBook edited by Matt? It is an excellent book. It shows and reads well. Don't forget to let Matt knows how much you appreciate his hard work. It is not an easy task to edit an eBook. Download a copy of the full book for your own references. In addition, you should include your chapter publication in your resume or Curriculum Vitae (CV).   PDF: Education Today & Tomorrow-Your Guide to ONLE &PLE Best Practices HTML: Education Today & Tomorrow-Your Guide to ONLE &PLE Best Practices   I highly recommend that you save and print a copy of your grade book for your own records.  From now o...

Community Development It is not necessary that "High" is positive while "Low" is negative. Learn more on Community Development Indices   Overall, the community connections remained reasonably positive.  The community interactivity was declined in Reciprocated Vertex Pair Ratio & Graphic Density but remained remains "Interactive" from the previous lesson. Two areas to improve are ( RED Sections ): Unique Edge (# of Connection) AND Graph Density (Connection Density).   Green: Positive ; Yellow: Neutral ; Red: Negative   Lesson 8 From Lesson 7 to 8 Unique Edges # of connections Higher; better. Low | Negative Increased | Positive Reciprocated Vertex Pair Ratio Two-way interaction Higher; better. Medium | Positive Negative | Positive Maximum Geodesic Distance Longest distan...

NAU and ETC Curriculum Design Committee plan to offer Microcredentials (the badges, certificates, and/or courses in special and/or emerging topics to enrich the students' professional skills and knowledge.  These special topic courses will not increase the required credit hours for existing master or certificate programs.  The lengths of these badges or courses may range from one week to a few weeks. Please share what special topics, and emerging topics that you think are important to you.  These topics can be covered in current existing courses but you would like to learn more about them or they haven't been covered in any courses. Complete:   ETC Microcredentials on Special Topic Survey  

Course Evaluation: Reached 92% .125 bonus is added to ALL students, even the ones do not participate yet.   Unlock next bonus:   If it reaches to 95%, an additional 0.125 point will be added to ALL students.   Currently, we reach to:  

Course Evaluation: Reached 83%   If it reaches to 85%, ALL students receive an additional 0.125 point, even the ones do not participate. If it reaches to 95%, an additional 0.125 point will be added to ALL students.   Currently, we reach to:  

ETC655 badge activity is OPTIONAL activities. The students are not enquired to participate.   Purpose: To support and encourage the students to develop metacognitive structure of demonstrated knowledge, skills, experiences, ability, and agency needed to focus on important gaps for their educational and career goals.   ETC655 Badges and ETC Portfolio are related the concept of Comprehensive Learner Record (CLR) .  They are relevant to Connectivism, Open Education, ONLE, PLE, Digital Lifelong Learning.   Time: Lesson 7 and 8   For details and badge instructions see: ETC655 Badge Activities   There are more than 8 badges can be unlocked. Coding Explorer Blockchain Explorer Conversation Starter Influencer Active Engager Bibliometric Analysis   OPTIONAL: Earned badges can be displayed in your ETC Portfolio Display Earned Badge in ETC Portfolio    

Course Evaluation: Reached 67%   If it reaches to 85%, ALL students receive an additional 0.125 point, even the ones do not participate. If it reaches to 95%, an additional 0.125 point will be added to ALL students.   Currently, we reach to:  

As usual, below are my reflections on each key discussion question to share with you and to advance your critical thinking and learning.   Community Development It is not necessary that "High" is positive while "Low" is negative. Learn more on Community Development Indices   Overall, the community connections and interactivity were weakened but the two-way communication increased. This is likely that it did not have two-posting period requirements which resulted in two-way communication but the quality of the community interactivity decreased.   Two areas to improve are ( RED Sections ): Unique Edge (# of Connection) AND Graph Density (Connection Density).   Green: Positive ; Yellow: Neutral ; Red: Negative   Lesson 6 From Lesson 5 to 6 Unique Edges # of connections Higher; better. Low | Negative Decrease | Negative Reciprocated Vertex Pair Ratio T...