Distance Education for

Clinical Pastoral Education

Connecting through the Web

Jan Humphreys&

Britt Watwood

Outline

• Defining “Distance Education”

• Jan’s Use of Blackboard

Technology • Show of hands:– eMail? – Cellphones?– iPod?– Flickr account?– YouTube account?– Blog?– Twitter? – Delicious account?– Google Reader?– FaceBook?– Avatar?

Define “Distance Education”

How is the web changing

where and how collaboration takes place?

The Early WWW

• Web as destination • One-Way Surfing

• Go to Web to search / find /read

• content collection

• HTML coding skills a must for publishing

Web 2.0

• The read / write web

• Anyone can now publish!• Blogs, wikis, podcasting, RSS• HTML coding skills not necessary

• Web creation and interaction

Open Community of Practice

The Social Web

& PLEs

• Online courses• Learning Mgmt

Systems

• Open courseware• Social networking• Web 2.0

Formal & Informal Online Learning Environments

Learner-Centered Teaching

Metaphor for

Using Bb – F2F or Online

• Chickering, A. W., and Gamson, Z. F., Seven Principles for

Good Practice in Undergraduate Education, 1983.

– Student-Faculty Contact– Cooperation Among Students– Active Learning– Prompt Feedback– Time on Task– High Expectations– Multiple Ways of Learning

Jan’s Blackboard Course

Syllabus

Evaluation Guidelines

Discussion Board

Discussion Forums

Group Dynamic Discussion

Gender Difference Discussion

Comm Patterns Discussion

Future of Distance Education

• Beyond Blackboard

• Social Web Applications

• Mobile

iGoogle (Customizable – The Web Comes To You)

Twitter

delicious

GoogleReader

Google Sites

Secure Group Website(Build Your Own Blackboard)

Web Conferencing

Skype

Wimba Classroom

ooVoo

What Does This MeanTo CPE ?

Questions ?