Distance education web tools

Distance education web tools

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  Distance Education Web 2.0 Tools Application of Technology (INST 6031) Dr. Richard Smith By. Thuan Nguyen
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  Why uses web2.0 tools? Essentially web 2.o tools are a collection of social tools that allows for the interaction of a single person to an online community, which can be the user private community or the whole world. Provide interaction in course that is missing in a Distance Education class. Provide familiarity of a traditional classroom in a virtual environment.
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  Blogs Core function ● Sharea single or many topic ● Allow users to response to topic ● Allow linear interaction An Example for use in education Instructor/Student post a topic, other students can read and provide feedback for posted topic.
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  Wiki Core function ● Sharea single or many document ● Allow users to response/edit/collaborate to build document ● Allow dynamic interaction An Example for use in education Students in a group setting to set up a wiki to collaborate on a single project. From planning to execution each group member will be able to interact with the documents by adding on or removing ideas/execution steps for project
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  Discussion Board Core function ●Share a single or many topic ● Allow users to response to topic ● Allow linear interaction An Example for use in education Instructor post a education topic, students provides responds base on the topic including each student opinion on topic. This can lead to debate which will cause an increasing interest in topic.
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  Video sharing Core function ●Share a single or many video ● Allow users to response to video ● Allow linear interaction An Example for use in education Instructor post video recording of lecture or supplementary materials for student to view.
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  Voice Sharing Core function ●Share a single or many voice recording ● Allow users to response to voice recoding ● Allow linear interaction An Example for use in education Instructor post voice recording of lecture or supplementary materials for student to listen.
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  Online conferences Core function ●Allow full interaction between two parties in real time but in a virtual environment setting. An Example for use in education Instructor can set up a QA session where student can interact with instruction in real time in a virtual environment.
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  An example ofintergration Problem : An History instructor wants his/her student to be able to collaborate in a history report. The instructor wants his/her student to write the paper base on a given topic together, comes up with an idea and present for the whole class. Solution: In this particular case the instructor can use all of the tools above to allow his/her students to perform the mentioned project. Starting with a blogs that contain all of the given topics, student would comments on the blog to join the group that is responsible for the report of that topic, leaving video and voice links of supplementary materials for students. Student then can use a discussion board tools to brain storms and gather the necessary materials for the reports. Then together each group will be able to collaborate and write a single report using the any wiki tool. Then using a online conferencing tool, instructor can set up a specific virtual meeting time for each group to present the materials.
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  More useful tools Formore web 2.0 tools and its uses in education http://www.go2web20.net/ http://web2010.discoveryeducation.com/web20tools.cfm