1. Unit Two: Adult Learners (and Teachers) Online

3. Reaching Everyone OL (Particularly Older Adults)

4. Meeting Learner Needs The practices that make an online or blended course “good” are the same practices that make a course good for adult learners.

10. Tour of Award-Winning Site

11. You Be The Judge You are on the panel of judges for the 2010 Bb Catalyst Exemplary Course Award Needs and Competencies was submitted In pairs, use the rubric to review the course Report back in 10 minutes

12. Course Review Results What did you observe? What could be improved?

13. Final Project Your Exemplary Course Challenge Planner as Tool This Week’s Task

14. BREAK

15. Understanding Emerging Technologies (& Younger Adult Users)

16. Understanding Technology We shape our tools and then our tools shape us Marshal McLuhan

17. Emerging Technologies

18. Emerging Technologies What are the common characteristics, and how are they currently used?

19. ET Characteristics Crowdsourcing

20. ET Characteristics Citizen Journalism

21. ET Characteristics Self Documentation

22. ET Characteristics Converging Media

23. ET Characteristics Tagged

24. ET Characteristics Friends = Currency

25. Emerging Technologies What do these two video clips have in common?

26. Toy Helicopter Video

27. Boloco Robbery

28. Understanding Technology How are these new tools reshaping learner assumptions and expectations?

29. Story: Observation Soundtrack Picked a place Observed it and took notes Wrote up the observation

30. Characteristics How can we work with new tools and expectations, instead of fending them off?

31. Story: Cellphones in Class Understood the self-documentation impulse Redirected it creatively for learning

32. A River Runs Through It My father said, “You are a fine fisherman.” My brother said, “I’m pretty good, but I need three more years before I can think like a fish.” Norman Maclean