Discussions started by Bill Thimmesch

Thank you to everyone for the wonderful posts, teaching resources, and critical thinking about the learning process for adults (whether in educational or training contexts).  Here's my question for our final week of discussion:

If you could automate any instructional tool, method, or assessment process for adult learning, what would you want to automate?

Example 1:  automated assistant for communications skills training:

http://www.simmersion.com/what_we_do.htm

Example 2:  automating the tracking of learners throughout a curriculum (Learning Management Systems):

http://www.astd.org/NR/rdonlyres/12ECDB99-3B91-403E-9B15-7E597444645D/23395/LMS_fieldguide_20091.pdf

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Given all of your experience with online learning and facilitation, what best practices have you seen in higher education for online teaching and facilitation?  For example, have you used tools like Voicethread or web conferencing with any success?  How do you integrate instant messaging or live student chats to boost interaction and learning?  Please share here...

http://voicethread.com/

 http://www.amazon.com/Tools-Successful-Online-Teaching/dp/159140956X

Bill