Making learning click in online environments

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container zemanta-img" style="float: right; margin-right: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cyber_Analytics_graphic_v7.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: clear:right;"><img alt="English: Cyber analytics is the science of ana..." border="0" class="zemanta-img-inserted" height="215" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/Cyber_Analytics_graphic_v7.jpg/300px-Cyber_Analytics_graphic_v7.jpg" style="border: none; font-size: 0.8em;" width="300" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption zemanta-img-attribution" style="text-align: center; width: 300px;">English: Cyber analytics is the science of analysis that derives behavior from a variety of data to answer questions about the past, present, or future. (Photo credit: <a href="http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cyber_Analytics_graphic_v7.jpg" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a>)</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: small; line-height: normal; text-align: -webkit-auto;"> In face to face environments - you have face, voice and body language. In blended environments, you have clicks, discussions, and edits - all of these are important.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: small; line-height: normal; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: small; line-height: normal; text-align: -webkit-auto;">In a Face to Face environment, we wouldn't let kids sleep in the back of the class, in online environments, we expect students to not only log time but ENGAGE.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: small; line-height: normal; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: small; line-height: normal; text-align: -webkit-auto;"></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: small; line-height: normal;">You have to be adaptable and tweak things as you get the analytics back from what is happening. Just as social media responds to highly engaging content or content w/ no response, so should professors and teachers. If you don't adapt, students languish.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: small; line-height: normal; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: small; line-height: normal; text-align: -webkit-auto;">This isn't about being on the clock but about how well you click with the time you have. </span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: small; line-height: normal; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: small; line-height: normal; text-align: -webkit-auto;">How much time do professors and others spend engaging with analytics about what content resonates and what is being ignored? Do they even care? I think in an age where education is becoming competitive, those that delve into and respond to the analytics will be the institutions of higher ed that remain among us.</span></div><br /> <div class="zemanta-pixie" style="height: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"><a class="zemanta-pixie-a" href="http://www.zemanta.com/?px" title="Enhanced by Zemanta"><img alt="Enhanced by Zemanta" class="zemanta-pixie-img" src="http://img.zemanta.com/zemified_c.png?x-id=39702500-564e-4e9f-89c4-0e88e1cd4265" style="border: none; float: right;" /></a></div>

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English: Cyber analytics is the science of analysis that derives behavior from a variety of data to answer questions about the past, present...

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