Technology In Education Chapter 8
Ms. Pennington has just agreed to teach an online English language arts class. She knows that much technological infrastructure is involved in teaching online. She wants to focus first on the technology that is the "container" for the online course. Of the following tools, what is most likely to allow a teacher to design and develop an online course?
A learning management system (LMS)
Online students can be involved in much small-group work. Of the following instructor actions, which one is not a strategy to make online group work proceed more smoothly and be more productive?
Assign the group a name.
Lizzie, a 12th grade student, is enrolled in all online courses that she can work through at her own pace with guidance from her online teachers. However, for her AP calculus course, the teacher hosts biweekly, face-to-face review sessions and learning activities, and Lizzie takes her exams at the district Assessment Center. Which type of blended learning model does this represent?
Enriched virtual model
A company offers an online AP calculus course that any U.S. high school student can take. It has video lectures, example problems with feedback, small-group work and discussions, and assessments but no "real-time" meetings. Which online model does this reflect?
Interactive, asynchronous online model
Which of the following should be the first step in designing online courses because it impacts later decisions related to course design?
Selecting the online course model
Ms. Kerr reviews her students' assessment data at the end of each week. She then determines the pacing, sequencing, and content for each student. She provides some whole-class instruction, and then groups cycle through stations that have skill-based activities, discussion, and online content specific to their learning needs. Which type of blended learning model does this represent?
Station rotation model
Which of the following is one of the challenges revealed in current research about online schools?
Students in online schools show poorer academic performance than students in brick-and-mortar schools.
Mr. Daun, a science teacher, wants to develop brief video to introduce key scientific concepts related to motion and force. He will assign the videos to students to watch as homework so that in-class time can be used to engage in a hands-on science experiment using a Vernier scientific cart and track system with motion encoder. What is the best length and format for the video?
The video should be about 6 minutes long and use an informal, conversational tone.
Mr. Salinas, a ninth grade biology teacher, is approached by his principal and asked to teach an online biology course. Mr. Salinas asks to review the online course and use the iNACOL rubric for quality online courses to determine its quality. Mr. Salinas jots the following notes about the course during his review. In his notes, what indicates that he is concerned about the quality of the online biology course he is reviewing?
There are no opportunities for students to communicate with the teacher.
