Posted Thu, 01/06/2011 - 14:27 by Eric Seneca
Over the Fall 2010 semester, the Radiological Technology faculty have introduced e-Books and the learner analytic software, Doceo to students. Phase 1 of implementation has been a success. Moving into Phase 2, 2.0 versions of Doceo will use learning objects to remediate students on their area of weakness. Known as mLearning, this new iPad/iPhone/iPod touch based endeavor is designed to allow the rad tech students access to class information from anywhere at anytime.
Doceo 3.0 can be installed by following the instructions and using the attached files below. Note, this application only works for authorized OLOL College RadTech students.
What's new: v3.1
Updated the Junior form
Posted Mon, 08/23/2010 - 13:33 by Eric Seneca
Over the summer, Academic Technology in partnership with Radiological Technology faculty have worked on the e-Book initiative. Known as mLearning, this new iPad/iPhone/iPod touch based endeavor is designed to allow the rad tech students access to class information from anywhere at anytime. With the Doceo engine, faculty create assessment forms that are collected into a central repository where it can later be analyzed to help identify student weaknesses. In future versions, this data will be used to remediate students on their area of weakness.
Posted Tue, 04/20/2010 - 03:53 by Eric Seneca
I am very happy to report that a presentation on my service learning project for the Mobile Learning Center has been accepted for conference presentation. The 30 minute paper will be presented at the Ubiquitous Learning Conference at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada in December 2010.
Posted Mon, 04/19/2010 - 22:03 by Eric Seneca
When I read the term ‘teaching at a distance’ it conjures up images of the lone-wolf student sitting at a personal computer in splendid isolation. In my mind, nothing could be further from the truth. The New Oxford American Dictionary defines distance as “an amount of space between two things or people,” it does not necessarily always mean a physical distance. In many cases, students can be sitting less than ten feet from the instructor, listening to every word, but hearing nothing. The mental distance can be greater than anything one would experience in an online modality. Quality education should be designed to conquer the distance between teacher and pupil regardless of the physical distance between those two individuals.
Posted Sun, 04/18/2010 - 07:21 by Eric Seneca
Humans by our nature are social animals. As a species our success has been defined by our ability to pool talent, knowledge and resources within a social network. Our entire understanding of life and the universe comes from our ability to gather and develop concepts within a social “arena-of-ideas”. The foundation of education has always been and will always be the gathering of a social group for the advancement of knowledge in a particular area. That is the heart of collaboration and engagement.
Today’s incarnation of education is a much more formalized process than it has been in the distant past. In today’s higher education environment, programs and courses are simply a mechanism to develop social networks for a particular context. In the past, these social networks operated as they have throughout history; face-to-face with spoken language.
Posted Wed, 04/14/2010 - 09:15 by Eric Seneca
The college has launched the building block for the iPad mobile learning platform for Blackboard. In addition, the sync service has been made avalible to student for iPhone/iPod touch syncronization. The system will allow students to access an iPad application for Blackboard. Initial test of the produce shows there is a convience factor for students, but the claim that "mobile" learning takes place may be a stretch. Access to information may not be exactly the same as understanding and comprehension of that information. But, with that stated, the addition of this application and the iPhone/iPod touch application have been well received by the students.
Posted Sun, 04/11/2010 - 11:39 by Eric Seneca
Over the past six months, I have been working purchasing and configuring computer equipment for children-in-need. The purpose of this is for my students to obtain the necessary technology skills via through the process of teaching other. The additional benefit is to the community.
Posted Thu, 04/01/2010 - 10:23 by Eric Seneca
Seven net-books are ready for Boys Hope, Girls Hope.
These laptops are set to be delivered to the community partner next week.
Posted Thu, 03/25/2010 - 09:00 by Eric Seneca
Funding for this project has been approved. The College will be developing an assessment engine for the radiological technology program. This development and devices will be part of the Mobile Learning Center's ubiquitous computing project.
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Posted Sat, 03/20/2010 - 05:00 by Eric Seneca
Educause has published the 2010 version of The Horizon Report which is a qualitative report that identifies and describes emerging technologies that may have a large impact on teaching, learning and inquiry in higher education. The report contains a few key findings that may be applicable to the College.
Posted Sun, 03/07/2010 - 05:00 by Eric Seneca
Today, I had the opportunity to speak to the Foster Grandparents association of Baton Rouge. The speech about basic technology literacy for digital immigrants was well received by the audience. There was a successful sign-up of 30 potential individuals for the Mobile Learning Center. Arrangements are being made by OLOL College students to give the requested tutoring sessions to these seniors. The topic that seem to garner the most interest was Intenet security and ways to keep your money safe while shopping online.
Posted Fri, 03/05/2010 - 03:36 by Eric Seneca
Our presentation at the Gulf South Summit Meeting (2010), Athens, Georgia, March 4, 2010 was well recieved by the audience. My colleagues, from the left, Dr. Elizabeth Berzas, Ms. Leah Geheber, Ms. Kasey Baldwin and Dr. Rhoda Reddix presented examples of how service learning can be used in a cross-curricula approach. My area specifically focused on using service learning as a tool for online computer science education. The main instructional tool used within this course is service-learning. Service-learning is a teaching and learning strategy that integrates community service with instruction. This instructional methodology has a long history, but after a review of literature, has been infrequently applied to online instruction.
Posted Sat, 02/27/2010 - 07:21 by Eric Seneca
How e-Learning environments influence learning will depend on how one intends to use that structure in the process of instruction. For instance, one can setup a sophisticated decentralized dynamic instructional setting, but if “sage-on-the-stage” instructional techniques are the primary method of information delivery, I doubt the environment will have any significant influence over learning. On the other hand, if one considers basic instructional principles, understands the strengths and weaknesses of different e-Learning techniques, then with an engaging assignment designed around a specific environment, that setting could have a greater influence over learning.
Posted Thu, 02/04/2010 - 15:30 by Eric Seneca
Today the construction is complete on the College's first simulation hospital. The first simulation will be for PA students focusing on acid-base simulations.
The simulation will begin with the click and present the vital information for the student. Once I have a scenerio, the questions will begin and the student will be required to interpret the information and select a diagnosis.
Here is the first pictures of the OLOL College's Virtual Hospital.
Posted Thu, 02/04/2010 - 15:19 by Eric Seneca
In November 2009, a collaborative effort between the Offices of Academic Technology and Service Learning lead to the development of a fully online computer applications course with service learning as a centerpiece of the course design. Throughout the semester the students are required to complete three assignments, each designed to inform the students of what they will be teaching to digital immigrants. The assignments focus on basic computer terminology, word-processing, spreadsheets, and Internet browser software.
