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ETC Open Education Series Spring 2022 Edition AVAILABLE Free for All

Dear Educational Technology Professionals,   The ETC Community has published its free contents of the ETC Open Education Series Spring 2022 Edition which were created and published by ETC655 students Spring 2022.  It contains three main resources:   ETC Open Network Training Sessions Spring 2022 Seven 30-minutes PD videos. Topics: Flipgrid, Nearpod, MS One Note, Prezi, OER & Accessibility, Drones, and Kahoot. ETC OER eBook Spring 2022 Edition Resources and Innovations for Creating an Effective Open Network Learning Environment: Authored and edited by ETC655 Spring 2022 students. Formats: PDF; Kindle (.mobi) ETC Pedagogy InfoDoc on Emerging Technology Contains thirteen different topics of Robotics, MOOCs, Comprehensive Learning Record (CLR), Virtual reality (VR), Teachers pay teachers, Artificial Intelligent, (AI), eSports, Blockchain in Education, Mobile app design, Adaptive Learning, Drones, and Coding. Each InfoDoc ...

ETC655: Pedagogy InfoDoc on Emerging Technology Spring 2022 Edition

Dear ETC655 students,   Your Pedagogy InfoDoc on Emerging Technology Spring 2022 Edition has been finalized and published.   Download a copy for your references.   Do you know you have accomplished the newest edition of the ETC Open Education Series: ETC Open Network Training Sessions , ETC OER eBooks , & ETC Pedagogy InfoDoc on Emerging Technology .   If you have not downloaded a copy, do so ASAP. If needed, download the copies of previous students' work. Why? In the future, you may need to provide PDs to your colleagues, co-workers, educators, and other stakeholders. The ETC Open Education Series is an excellent resource. Some contents can be adopted without almost any revision or you can optimize or customize these contents to meet your specific PD needs. Many ETC students and alumni have adopted these materials. If you do, please do apprise me on your progress of the innovative work you are and will be doing at work. I always sin...

ETC655: Session Ended

Dear ETC655 Students,   The Spring 2022 2nd session has ended. I would like to offer my congratulations and felicitations for your achievement of completing your ETC degree. May you live well and benefit from your education.   It has been an incredible experience in working with you.  I hope you have completed all course activities.  With strikingly different course design, it was a challenging session for all of us. I hope ETC655 has engaged you in an effective and comprehensive learning process that has advanced all your three learning domains, cognitive (knowledge), psychomotor (skills), and affective (values), for online learning teaching and design. Instructor-student and student-student relationships lie at the heart of humanizing, serving as the connective tissue between students, engagement, and rigor. And I think we accomplished it.   I hope you are conversant with the topics of Connectivism and ONLE. After the class, I encourage...

Reach to 100% return rate

Congratulations! Our class demonstrates a strong learning community. In addition, we fulfill our takes of gamifying course evaluation. I copy and paste our gamification design below for your reference.   §   Issues: Low course evaluation rate §   Goal : Using community building to increase course response rate §   Gamification Theory: Self-Determination Theory (SDT) (Deci & Ryan, 2000) §   Gamification Model: Fogg Behavior Model (Fogg, 2011): Motivation, Ability and Trigger §   Game Mechanics: Incentives (Bonus point) §   Game Dynamics: ·          Engaging (Level up, three tiers: 1 point, .125, & .125), ·          Social (Later two bonuses, students need to work together to earn them) ·          Behavioral (Respond to the course evaluation. Someone who doesn't respond ma...

ETC655: Notes for Lesson 8 Final Week

Dear ETC655 Students,   This is our final week. Do not relinquish from your great work; therefore, your efforts won't be proved futile.   The class ends on 04/29/2022, Friday .  All tasks should be completed by the last day of the class, unless specified. CORRECTION: We need not share the teaching/design philosophy in the discussion board area. All students should submit their signature assignment via BBLearn : Assignment 4: Final Project: The Development of an OER Textbook (for Group 7) Assignment 5: ETC Program Portfolio: ETC655 Reflections If you are graduating this semester, remember to finalize your ETC portfolio and email your faculty mentor the ETC portfolio link again so your mentor can sign off your graduation application. Congratulations!! Course Evaluation We have reach:  85% , ALL students received an additional  0.125  point, even the ones do not participate yet (collaboration & community ...

Course Evaluation: Reach 92%

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Reach:  85% , ALL students receive an additional  0.125  point, even the ones do not participate yet (collaboration & community service & performance).  Reach:  95% , an additional  0.125  point will be added to ALL students. Currently, we reach: