Health care programs are important, quickly developing and evolving in colleges and universities. Nursing, health care administration, medical coding, nurse practitioners, physician assistant programs, medical billing, urgent care administrators, nursing home administration, and more are growing.As our health care system changes, and the population ages, it is very important for all health care

Join me today, Thurs, 2/20 at 4pm Pacific, for a Center Hangout on Air with +Tracy Schaelen and +Dan Barnett. We'll be discussing how Tracy and Dan use voice and video to humanize the their instructor feedback and consider the impact this has the student experience. Tracy will be sharing feedback she has collected from her students. The Hangout will incorporate the Google+ "Q&A" feature, which allows anyone with a Google+ account to click the video and ask us a question during our live conversation. Questions will also be taken via Twitter using #CCCLEARN.Humanizing Online Grading with Voice and Video To view the LIVE Hangout, go directly to this link today, Thursday, February 20th, from 4-5pm Pacific. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiqrJU6fBRQ&feature=shareThe Center@Center_Ed The Center is brought to you by @ONE Center logo by Jim Bumgardner CC-BY-NC-SA

View this video on YouTube.Yesterday, I spent an hour in dialogue with +Dan Barnett and +Tracy Schaelen about one of my favorite topics ... humanizing the online learning environment for students. Despite a major fail on the part of Google+ Hangouts on Air (grumble) to stream half of our live conversation, we persevered and, fortunately, the archive of the Hangout turned out fabulous.  I am sharing it below and hope you will find time to view, reflect, share a takeaway about the conversation, and pass the link on to your own networks too.   Reinforcing Research FindingsI intended to end the Hangout with a reference to the findings from online teaching research, which, more or less, reinforce all the insights and findings shared by Dan and Tracy in the Hangout conversation. Unfortunately, I forgot.  So, here is the graphic I intended to share in the Hangout. The Center is brought to you by @ONE. Join The Center's Google+ Community.Follow The Center on Twitter.

Podcast - download here. When you think of the best way to learn about the newest technology, what do you think of? Chances are, the first thing you'll do is to engage in informal e-learning, which is to say that you'll do a Google search and read articles, white papers, advertising, customer testimonials, and commercial promotions in order to familiarize yourself. At the same time, you may

SLN SOL Summit20th AnniversarySUNY Learning NetworkNew York, NYFebruary 26-28, 2014#slnsolsummitTomorrow, Wednesday, February 26th, I will be presenting a 3-hour workshop at the SLN SOL Summit in New York City titled  How to Help Faculty Humanize the Online Teaching & Learning Experiencefrom 2:15-5:15 EST  In the workshop, I will be sharing an overview of a brand new online faculty development course I developed and am now teaching for CSU Channel Islands, How to Humanize Your Online Class.  The workshop will showcase the contemporary and practical approaches to faculty development used to design the course, which place an emphasis on the importance of modeling how to effectively integrate web 2.0 tools into an LMS while supporting learning objectives and simultaneously reducing a learner's sense of alientation through voice/video and peer-to-peer interactions.   The workshop will be streamed live (starting at 2:15 EST) and you are invited to watch along here. Here is the site I will share in conjunction with my workshop presentation (which will be largely comprised of a walkthrough of the online course, with ample time for workshop participants to experiment with a few of the tools used in the design and instruction of the course).Please join in on the Twitter backchannel! #slnsolsummit

Welcome to an interview with Ed Rickers, founder of Studies Weekly, and eStudiesWeekly.com. E-LearningQueen.com is interested in the eStudiesWeekly.com format because the tight, condensed format is a good way to help students (and teachers) develop schemata for organizing what can often be an overwhelming amount of material. Their format also incorporates appropriate graphics and media which

I will be presenting a free webinar tomorrow for @ONE about The Center, @ONE's next-generation online learning community for which I am the community coordinator.  The Center is designed to support California's 112 community colleges but our events are open to everyone (and all are free!).  Learn how The Center can improve collaboration and community in your own professional development and help you get started with your transformation into a connected educator. The Center: @ONE's New Online CommunityTuesday, March 4, 201412:00-1:00 PacificAdvanced registration required, please click here for details.

Science education online is often a hit or miss affair, and it is difficult to develop an instructional strategy that both engages the learner and incorporates effective assessments at higher levels of difficulty. Welcome to an interview with Dr. James Caras, Sapling Learning, who focuses on science education.1. What is your name and connection to elearning?Dr. James Caras. I am the Founder and

Empowering elearning instructors and designers is a key element of making education widely available. While mentoring and tutoring sites are available through virtual worlds such as SecondLife, and many webinar platforms are available. However, packaging and marketing elearning courses is a different matter, and a place of great opportunity. Further, it may offer colleges and universities, both

Teaching in The Dark: Learning to Love What We Fear from Michelle Pacansky-Brock Yesterday, I was honored to be the keynote speaker at the 3rd Annual Tri-C eMerge Blended Learning Conference at Cuyahoga Community College in Cleveland, Ohio.  It was a fabulous day filled with great dialogue and learning. For my presentation, I took the opportunity to take a risk, in an effort to model one of the main points of my presentation -- the importance of embracing vulnerability.  Vulnerability, according to researcher Brene Brown, is the birthplace of creativity and innovation.  It is also an experience that genuinely happy people regularly accept, welcome, and embrace into their lives.So, I planned to deliver my keynote in front of a live audience using a new tool, Presentain, that I had never used before (aside from testing it out in my home office).  Presentain was shared with me by my colleague and friend, +Vicki Curtis . Vicki is experimenting with Presentain in her face-to-face ESL class with success. The concept: load your presentation onto the Presentain site in PDF form, download the free app to your phone, and when you are ready to present connect your app to the website (you do this by entering a code into the website provided to you on your phone in the app).  This generates a unique URL that you provide to your audience. The audience then goes to that URL on their smartphone, tablet, or laptop and when you click "Start" they can they see your current slide on their device, click "ask a question" which submits their inquiry to me on my phone for me to preview and decide if I wish to answer it or not, or send a message to the speaker via email. Those who send a message can ask to receive the recording because Presentain also records the presentation as I speak, using my smartphone (remember, I'm holding it with the app loaded on it) as both a remote to click through my slides and a microphone! Oh...and I can activate polls from my phone that display on each viewer's device and then display the results immediately.Ok, does that sound cool or what? Well, I tried it. I took the leap. And it didn't work. Oh, well. The app started and the presentation didn't. I'm in touch with the company; they are a startup and I'm sure they are working through a lot of kinks right now. I understand the risks involved with using emerging technologies. Sometimes things don't work when you're using a tool that is brand new. But you're problems become part of their improvements.  And I intend to share my experiences with Presentain to help them improve.  And from the broader perspective of taking risks, the point is...I tried something new, I failed, and I survived. My good ol' Keynote worked fine as a back up.  And you know what? I'll try again.From there, I went on to share this presentation, which couched a teaching experiment within the context of the human emotions associated with risk and experimentation. To me, these are the topics that are too frequently left unmentioned at educational technology conferences and I believe they are some of the greatest barriers we face in the future.Enjoy.