Author emphasis on differences, importance, futuristic aspects and pros & cons of online and conventional teaching

This book is your guide to blended teaching in K-12 spaces. It was designed to help both pre-service teachers and in-service teachers prepare their classes for blended teaching. This book begins by orienting you to the foundational dispositions and skills needed to support your blended teaching practice. Then you will be introduced to four key competencies for blended teaching:

Online Integration – ability to effectively combine online instruction with in-person instruction.
Data Practices – ability to use digital tools to monitor student activity and performance in order to guide student growth.
Personalizing Instruction – ability to implement a learning environment that allows for student customization of goals, pace, and/or learning path.
Online Interaction – ability to facilitate online interactions with and between students

Learn Arabic is a website that aims to teach Arabic via games and activities. Members can compete for top spots as they earn badges by completing lessons. The lessons start with the alphabet and all of its variations and move up through simple words and phrases. Plans are in the works to add more complicated lessons for intermediate and advanced learners. Lessons include interactive books, videos, games, vocabulary lists, and more depending on the lesson. Users can sign up for Arabic tips emailed to them. The site includes a blog as well.

This Coptic website contains a section for learning languages. In the Arabic learning section, there are nineteen different categories including the alphabet, grammar, numbers, and groups of vocabulary words used in daily life, such as women's clothing and insects. The vocabulary in these categories include labeled illustrations.

MOOC on CONSTRUCTIVISM IN ONLINE LEARNING Aligned with SDG4, Quality Education and New Education Policy (2020).
MOOC on CONSTRUCTIVISM IN ONLINE LEARNING Aligned with SDG4, Quality Education and New Education Policy (2020).
Details of the MOOC
Course Overview
The transition from in-classroom instruction to online instruction is a complex one involving specialized training in the technical aspects of delivering quality learning environment to the students and specialized training in how to foster the students’ engagement within this new environment. Three schools of thoughts have been widely used and explored to provide guidance for instructional practice: behaviourism, cognitive psychology and constructivism. However of the three, constructivism has been identified as the most suitable one for online learning environment. Without proper pedagogical training and online experience, teachers will continue to replicate their best existing practices on to the online medium. This divergence between what works in the traditional classroom within stable cohort of learners communicating synchronously F2F is qualitatively different from an online asynchronous one. The course will enable you to design and execute your teaching in an online environment effectively based on constructivism strategies which will foster the students’ engagements. This course shall be useful for teachers, trainers, and all persons interested in design and delivery of instruction in an online mode effectively with constructivist perspective.

Course Duration: 6 Weeks course
Mode of Delivery: Synchronous and Asynchronous
Platform: Canvas/ Google meet/ zoom/ Google Classroom
Challenge Level: Advanced
Who can Join: Teacher Educators, Faculties from higher education, Research scholars from education, curriculum designer,School teachers, school principals and heads
Certificate: On successful completion of the course requisites, certificates will be issued to the participants
This course has enabled open enrollment. Students can self-enroll in the course once you share with them this URL: https://canvas.instructure.com/enroll/PN7YET. Alternatively, they can sign up at https://canvas.instructure.com/register
and use the following join code: PN7YET

Mixxer offers language partners across the globe for free via Skype. The website is set up to help parties who would like to learn each other's language connect for language exchange sessions. Users simply have to register and log in and they can search for conversation partners from across the globe. The site also allows users to maintain and share blogs in order to practice written elements of the language they are studying. Teachers can organize group sessions for their students.

This online module will explore strategies to increase student ownership and motivation in your classroom. 

The Faculty Quick Start Guide is an outcome of a project by ISKME, supported by a grant from the Michelson 20MM Foundation, to conduct a study and develop a set of resources to accelerate OER use for distance education, especially the urgent shift to remote learning during the pandemic in 2020. The Guide, created in collaboration with a selection of OER and online education champions across California community colleges (CCC), contains:

- Models and approaches to online learning, and to emergency remote learning in the context of COVID-19;
- How and to what extent OER fits into these models, and local and state-level supports needed for its integration and sustainability;
- Design considerations for integrating OER in online learning, including pedagogical and platform considerations;
- Curatorial practices, such as using OER curation tools and aligning curated OER to learning outcomes; and,
- Starting points and tips for colleges and faculty who want to initiate OER integration into distance education.

Tailored to faculty and campus administrators both in California and beyond, the Guide has the aim is to enable system-wide shifts to meet postsecondary institutions’ long term goals for distance learning, and faculty’s emergency plans for remote learning in response to the COVID-19 and potential future crises.

The Guide is also available as a PDF for download: https://drive.google.com/file/d/17AXs30dZeLOrGeNBQ-ISc_OJXIxE9xtB/view?usp=sharing.

See the companion guide for administrators at: https://www.oercommons.org/courses/iskme-michelson-20mm-oer-campus-administrator-quick-start-guide-public/edit

This paper addresses online and open education. It presents a simple, yet comprehensive framework that can be adopted by any higher education institution in seek of: (1) clarification of terms and concepts related to online and open education, (2) awareness of issues and challenges to set up strategies for online or open learning, (3) informed choices and their impacts on operationalization actions, from an institutional point of view, (4) perspectives on crucial issues, such as mobility, that HEI faces in a context of internationalization, (5) awareness of policymakers and teachers on what open and online education is.
Paper Citation : Jacqmot, C.; Docq, F. and Deville, Y. (2020). A Framework to Understand, Analyse and Describe Online and Open Education in Higher Education.In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: CSEDU, ISBN 978-989-758-417-6, pages 458-465. DOI: 10.5220/0009470704580465