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Online Learning
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Blackboard comes to Concordia
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First online course, Values and Virtues taught
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Student Teaching courses go online
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Planning Starts for Online Masters Degree
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Joint Masters Degree Program Study
Concordia University Chicago and Concordia University Wisconsin Joint Leadership Masters Program -
Instructional Design Team formed
Getting a new idea adopted...is difficult. Many innovations require a lengthy period of many years from the time when they became available to the time when they are widely adopted. Therefore a common problem...is how to speed up the rate of diffusion of an innovation (Rogers, 2003, p. 1). Systems thinking is a discipline for seeing wholes. It is a framework for seeing interrelationships rather than things, for seeing patterns of change rather than static "snapshots" (Senge,1990, p. 68). -
Just in Time Technology Clinics start
Few, if any, strategies can be purely deliberative, and few can be purely emergent. One suggests no learning, the other, no control. Mintzberg (1994, p.25) from fullen,2007, p107 -
Partnership with SAIL
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First Certification course
Howard Gardner (2004) suggested that the most important thing to do in seeking to change someone’s mind is to connect to the person’s reality as the point of departure for change. Nothing undermines openness more surely than certainty. Once we feel as if we have “the answer,” all motivation to question our thinking disappears (Senge, 1990, p.281) "The foundation of any learning experience resides in the nature of the instructor and learner relationships" (Wlodkowski, 2008, p.104) -
Student Orientation Developed
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First Online course offered for partnership
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Administrators Section of Certification Course
The purpose of a mind-changing encounter is not to articulate you own point of view but rather to engage the psyche of the person (p.163) as found in Fullen 2007. Diffusion is a process where an innovation is communicated through certain channels over time...to reach a mutual understanding (Rogers, 2003, p.1). -
Enrollment reaches 75 in online programs
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Enrollment reaches 75 in online programs
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First Hybrid Program in Education Technology begins with 200 students
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Enrollment reaches 150 in online programs
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Enrollment reaches 350 in online programs
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Conclusion
What must underlie successful epidemics, in the end, is a bedrock belief that change is possible (Gladwell, 2000, p.258).…there are no hard and fast rules, but rather a set of suggestions or implications that give the contingencies specific to local situations (Fullen, 2007, p.64).
