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| New! Empowering Learners to Lead |
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The pinnacle of learning engagement:
providing opportunities during a course
for learners to take the lead in preparing
and delivering an instructional activity. It
shifts the learner’s mindset from viewing
the instructor as the ultimate authority
in the course to one of seeing him or
herself as a valued contributor in the learning environment. It is
at this point that learners recognize they are knowledge generators,
not only for themselves, but for the community as a whole.
However, in order for learner-led activities to be effective, learners
need to be prepared by the instructor. |
Take home: Powerpoint slide show and handouts to train your
faculty.
Rita-Marie Conrad is one of the foremost authorities on online instruction
and is co-author of The Faculty Guide for Moving Teaching and Learning to
the Web. |
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| New! eTools for Developing
Content Objects |
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Enable your faculty and support staff to
rapidly and easily create media rich and
interactive web-based learning objects to
increase learner engagement with course
content. Explore the potential of various
eTools, both commercial and noncommercial,
for rapid development of
web-based content objects. Then learn about various eTools for
developing online course content. |
Take home: Powerpoint slide show and handouts to train your
own faculty on eTools for content objects.
Les Howles, a leading online media expert, is with the Department of
Instructional Technology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is a
popular conference speaker on multimedia and technology for online courses. |
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| New! Generational
Communication On
Campus |
Gen X faculty have a different communication
style than your Baby Boomer faculty.
The result is a great deal of generational
communication conflict with faculty.
There are mixed messages, wrong signals,
misinterpretation, misunderstood
work values, and more. It’s true whether your faculty are online
or on campus. Find out what your Boomer faculty needs to know about how Gen X faculty communicate. Then learn what your
Gen X faculty needs to know about how your Boomer faculty
likes to communicate. |
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Take home: Powerpoint slide show and handouts to take home
and share with all your faculty.
Suzanne Kart, a former college instructor, is now a director of marketing
and expert on Gen X in higher ed. A Gen Xer herself, she presents at conferences
and seminars all over the country on the topic. |
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| New! What Faculty Need to
Know About Virtual Worlds |
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Virtual worlds, such as Second Life, offer
a new delivery method for distance learning
educators. These three-dimensional
worlds show enormous potential as
platforms for teaching and learning.
The environment naturally incorporates
concepts associated with widely respected
learning theories such as constructivism, cooperative learning,
situated learning, and educational gaming.
Find out what your faculty need to know about virtual worlds. |
Take home: Powerpoint slides to show faculty what they need
to know about virtual worlds.
Darryl Hancock is the Director of Distance Learning and Professional
Development at Middle Georgia College. He has delivered workshops and
presentations on distance learning pedagogy, course design and development,
facilitation techniques, assessment strategies, and incorporating multimedia to
improve instruction. |
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| New! Learning Differences
in the Female and Male
Brains |
Within just the last 10 years we have
seen the emergence of new research
and scientific findings about the neurology
and hormonal differences between
females and males with regard to learning.
The work of Doreen Kimura, Susan
Pinker, Simon Baron-Cohen and others all point to two very
distinct differences in the female and male brains. These two
differences are so significant they impact how your students learn
differently by gender, and how you can enhance your teaching for
each sex. |
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Take home: Powerpoint slide show and executive briefing on
learning and gender for all your faculty.
Julie Coates is one of the leading authorities on generational learning
styles and author of the new — and first — book on the topic, Generational
Learning Styles. |
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Plus these briefings from a distance: |
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The latest top tips on fostering online discussion
and continual engagement online, with Mary Dereshiwsky, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff. |
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Technology update for 2009, with Stephen Downes, Senior Researcher,
National Research Center, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. |
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Join the Best Experts |
Your presenters are some of the foremost authorities in faculty development and online instruction. They are authors of leading books in higher education, as well as sought-after conference speakers and consultants. |
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Your host:
William A. Draves |
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Special Gift!
Just for you, a complimentary autographed copy of the brand new hardcover book, “Generational Learning Styles”,
by Julie Coates. |
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“Thank you for this
techno-riveting experience.”
- Jill Clark, Daytona Beach Community College, Daytona
Beach, FL |
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