24 Oct, 2007
Using Video Streaming and Podcasting to Design Rich-Media Online Courses with Diane Zorn
Posted by: Jeff VanDrimmelen In: Digital Learners| EDUCAUSE2007
Using Video Streaming and Podcasting to Design Rich-Media Online Courses by Diane Zorn.
- Goal is not to replicate classroom experience in an online course.
- Course instructors are more like facilitators or Coaches. … All the course content is available online.
- Teachers done have the control they think they have…
- She uses MediaSite.com for her lessons. (Does anyone know how to sign up for this and cost?)
- Class fills up within minutes because they want mobile learning! (all lessons are in multiple formats to allow for them to get on IPOD or phone or playstation)
- ‘Digital Natives‘ love this type of class!
- Going beyond conventional classroom!
- fully online
- rich media
- radically interactive
- mobile
- enactive learning
If you look at Chickering and Gamson’s 7 Principles of Good Practice in Undergradute Education you find they all apply here!! Diane also adds an 8th principle… but she didn’t get to it in the presentation… Diane… what is that one?
When discussing concerns with professors using this type of educational model she mentions “32 Trends in Distance Education” (Condensed PDF) as proof of how things are getting better and changing with professors embracing this new model of classrooms.
As I think about this I realize that we can add this stuff to our courses now!! Video! Podcasting! It doesn’t take a whole lot, but it really increases the learning in the students. I heard this morning at a Horizon Wimba presentation that the following increase the learning in the students by the respective percentage.
Podcasts (23%)
Instant Messaging (22%)
Webcasts (22%)
Course Management Systems (14%)
So get out there and try something new!! 
Email Diane to get electronic copies of handouts!
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