California Virtual Campus

Web 2.0 is best defined not as a technology development but as a moment of disrupted equilibrium in our culture. Our culture is redefining itself and we are redefining how we see learning. It is time for educators to get out of the box of seat time, finally, and consider evidence-based learning.
Our current educational habits […]

If Steven G. Sloan is at work, odds are that he will be on Skype. As an information-technology consultant at San Jose State University, Mr. Sloan uses the free Internet telephone service to make long-distance telephone calls and send instant messages to colleagues around the world. In his other job as a lecturer in the […]

Deaf-education departments find new uses for online videoconferencing
In a computer laboratory here one recent afternoon, four high-school students are deep in excited, one-on-one conversations with tutors.
One girl laughs and, a few minutes later, asks her tutor for help with math homework. Two boys mug a bit for one of the tutors.
But each is silent.
They are […]

Illuminating The Spa Industry Through Online Continuing Education
As I push the door open and enter the darkened space, the aroma of
Lavender and Eucalyptus greets me; I pause, and inhale deeply. I am calmer. The soothing sounds of Enya are playing in the background along with the trickling of water from the fountain. […]

The Perfect Blend:  “Professional Development Design for the Next Generation of Teachers.”

Maria Bertsch-Brown
Education 6707

April 2006

Maria Bertsch-Brown is a Beginning Teacher Support Assessment (BTSA) Consulting Teacher for a Northern California school district.  Her role involves mentoring and providing K-12 professional development for new teachers.  She visualizes endless possibilities that online learning will hold for supporting teachers’ […]

“Campus Technology presents a bold new conference this summer in Boston. Following 12 years of the annual Syllabus conference for education technology professionals, this summer’s program emphasizes the critical impact of cross-departmental teams that drive change on campuses. These teams are comprised of campus visionaries and administrators across technology, academic, and funding areas. Content will […]

“The more one discloses personal information, the more others will reciprocate, and the more individuals know about each other the more likely they are to establish trust, seek support, and thus find satisfaction. Without disclosure and interaction nothing happens. Disclosure creates a kind of currency that is spent to keep interaction moving” (Cutler, 1995).
Is it […]

Introduction
The Internet has been part of my life for the past ten years. I had used the Internet for various activities but not for online coursework. When I came across a completely online MS program, my first reaction was that it should be easy and extremely suitable for me since I was a student who […]

The Sakai Project today announces the creation of the Sakai Foundation to provide a permanent home for the growing Sakai Community. As a non-profit, membership corporation the Sakai Foundation will provide Sakai developers, adopters, and users a place to coordinate their efforts.
“We’ve been planning for the foundation all year,” notes Joseph Hardin, who chairs […]

"As is often the case, David Lodge may have said it best. Here was his exceptionally witty comment on faculty travel to professional conferences, in the prologue to A Small World:
‘The modern conference resembles the pilgrimage of medieval Christendom in that it allows the participants to indulge themselves in all the pleasures and diversions of […]