Assessing Collaborative Efforts

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Week 3 Discussion Question:


As an instructor, there are several issues to consider:


1- First, how should participation in a collaborative learning community be
assessed?

How do the varying levels of skill and knowledge students bring to a course
affect the instructor's "fair and equitable assessment" of learning?

2- Second, if a student does not want to network or collaborate in a learning
community for an online course, what should the other members of the learning
community do?

What role should the instructor play? What impact would this have on his or her
assessment plan?


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Element of Distance Education Diffusion

Module 2: Assignment 1 Discussion Question:

Element of Distance Education Diffusion

According to George Siemens (2009), there are four major reasons why Distance Education is becoming more popular in today's business, education, and government.

In this week video, George Siemens (2009) point out the following major reasons:
- The Enormous growth of online communication
- The Rising growth of innovative tools
- The Improving of online trust
- The Ability to have access to quality education without discrimination

According to George Siemens (2009) emphasizes, Corporations benefits Distance Education because it allows collaboration among business sites globally.

Distance Education major impact are the following:

- New communication programs and peripherals
- The rising growth of multimedia games and simulations
- The growing population amongst experts

Consequently:
George Siemens (2009) explains the three elements of distance education that are creating more effective learning experiences and giving distance education an identity of its own distance from face -to-face courses.

George Siemens (2009)states the following elements:
- Global diversity
- Communication
- Collaborative interaction


To examine the growing acceptance of distance Element of Distance Education which George Siemens (2009) discusses in the video, and explain the following:

1 - Do you agree with George Siemens choices?
2 - Then select one of these three elements for your reflecting,
and respond to the following:

a) How has this element evolves?
b) What online tools are available today to facilitate
interactions among learners?

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