Thursday, October 4, 2007

Annotated Bibliography

I am hoping that this is a good draft of the annotated bibliography that is due today.

WHAT IS AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY?
An annotated bibliography is a list of citations to books, articles, and documents. Each citation is followed by a brief (usually about 150 words) descriptive and evaluative paragraph, the annotation. The purpose of the annotation is to inform the reader of the relevance, accuracy, and quality of the sources cited.
Author, A. A., & Author, B. B. (Date of publication). Title of document. Retrieved month day, year, from http://Web address.

Article #1
Research/Sittings UNB (April 19, 2005), Perspectives on Online Education, Retrieved September 24, 2007, from http://www.unb.ca/perspectives/view.php?id=424

This article discusses how online learning may be not only a great way to facilitate learning online, but also a way to enable transfer of the learning into the workplace. Dr. Conrad, associate professor at UNB, believes that adult learners transfer much of what they learn into the workplace and online learning can facilitate more of this type of transfer. Dr. Conrad’s research will build on the current understandings of adult and distance education, social learning theory, and workplace learning. Her findings will contribute to current understanding of online learning environments and will add to the literature of adult, continuing and distance education. Her findings will also be of interest to organizations outside academia engaged in building knowledge-based communities as a cornerstone of resource development.


Article #2
Finley, Dorothy (April 26, 2000), Online Education as a means of Workplace Learning: A Case Study, Retrieved September 24, 2007, from http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICDocs/data/ericdocs2sql/content_storage_01/0000019b/80/17/17/c1.pdf


This is a case study that was conducted with the US army on a team of 12. The case study investigated how online courses could be used within their organization. The author reviewed how online courses could be used for self development for the organization and outside of the organization. The author indicated that due to the level of experience in the organization it was difficult to find online courses that would be suitable. The author did find some courses that would be applicable, but noted that not all training would be easily found in an online format. The article is useful in that it is very representative of what many companies may find in online learning.




Article #3
ARA (2006), Online Education Gives Moms an Edge in the Workplace, Retrieved September 24, 2007, from http://www.doityourself.com/stry/ara_onlineeducationg

This article discusses how online learning can advance the careers of not only women, but those who have limited time away from the home due to personal family commitments. The ability for individuals to earn advanced degrees in the comfort of their own homes opens up the door to many individuals to who not normally have access to advanced education. The article shows actual examples of individuals who after earning degrees online were able to secure jobs where salary increases were substantial.


Article #4
Virtual High School Ontario (2006), Cooperative Education and Other Workplace Experiences, Retrieved September 24, 2007, from http://www.virtualhighschool.com/vhs_calendar/00012.asp


This is an article that discusses how the combination of online and practical experiences facilitates a well rounded learning experience. This is a small articule that may be useful in backing up a claim on how both hands on and online learning together can prove most effective.


Article #5
Work Cover Tasmania, (August 11, 2006), Free On-Line Education in Workplace Health and Safety, Retrieved on September 24, 2007, from http://www.workcover.tas.gov.au/workcoverPublish/resource/inspfreeon-l.htm

WorkSafe Western Australia has developed an educational series of 100 lectures, at tertiary level, on issues of workplace health and safety. The program is the follow-on of their successful series for primary ('ThinkSafe Club') and secondary ('WorkSafe Smart Move') students.
The success of the program, called the SafetyLine Institute, with their own staff prompted WorkSafe Western Australia to make the facility available to industry and the community generally by offering it online, at no cost. Each of the lectures is followed by an associated multiple-choice test, and an individual's academic record is tracked. There are plans to expand the lectures to a total of 250 covering most areas of workplace health and safety. This site is an excellent example of how an organization can incorporate online learning in a very specific way to drive results that were lacking.



Article #6
www.edukt.org, (April 2006), Education and learning: Online education and distance learning trends, Retrieved on September 24, 2007, from http://www.edukt.org/

This article covers online degrees, launching on new online learning universities and blogs about online learning. It is somewhat useful in that it is a good reference point for other articles that may also be incorporated into the report. There is also information about nursing online degrees, which is a new concept as often times you find business like degrees easier to attain in the online format.

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