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Developing Learning Communities In Fully Online Spaces: Positioning The Fully Online Learning Community Model, Todd Blayone, Roland Van Oostveen, Wendy Barber, Maurice Digiuseppe, Elizabeth Childs
Developing Learning Communities In Fully Online Spaces: Positioning The Fully Online Learning Community Model, Todd Blayone, Roland Van Oostveen, Wendy Barber, Maurice Digiuseppe, Elizabeth Childs
Teaching and Learning in a Digital Context
The Fully Online Learning Community (FOLC), developed at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT), is a social-constructivist model, addressing a paradigm shift in employment skills, and supporting key elements of transformational learning. Adopting a Problem-based Learning (PBL) approach to activity design, FOLC has served as basis for both undergraduate and graduate, fully online degree programs for almost a decade. In this time, it has demonstrated its ability to facilitate richly collaborative, socially cohesive, and constructively critical, learning communities supported by a flexible array of synchronous and asynchronous digital affordances. FOLC represents a “divergent fork” of the Community of …
Digital Marketing Plan, Mary Lawlor
Digital Marketing Plan, Mary Lawlor
Assessment & Feedback Cases
Semester 1: Prepare a digital marketing communications plan for the Irish Times Newspaper. Competition for prize money. The groups present their proposals to the Irish Times at the end. Semester 2: Google Adwords competition: partnered with DIT’s Hothouse companies to prepare Adwords plans – group plus individual elements. Peer reviewed, and competition.
Digital Media, Catherine Barry-Ryan
Digital Media, Catherine Barry-Ryan
Assessment & Feedback Cases
Students produce a short (3 to 4 minute) group (4/group) video production, detailing a biochemistry concept. The group decides the choice of content during the initial meetings and storyboarding of the idea(s). The content must address, in some way, a biochemical concept related to TFBC2001. This concept could be the basis of an important biochemical experiment, a creative explanation of a biochemical hypothesis, addressing a biochemical misconception, or exploring a biochemical model. The video can contain any form of multimedia (video, sound, audio, animation etc.) but it must be visual, engaging and creative.