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Teach More Effectively with Customizing Learning Experiences
Expectations are rising in higher ed. There’s a growing emphasis on outcomes and accountability, and a steady trend toward personalizing the educational experience to boost individual student achievement and competency. But if online courses were customized to meet the needs and interests of individual students, would instructors’ workloads become unmanageable?
Many fear, and understandably so, that introducing customized, student-specific learning to online courses will add a crushing amount of work for the online instructor. And indeed, that’s a fear that could easily be realized if the process was approached incorrectly.
But there’s a way to do it right–a way that can actually reduce faculty workloads while increasing personalization of online learning. You can learn about it in Teach More Effectively with Customizing Learning Experiences, a 75-minute audio presentation that will introduce you to a model for offering personalized content without creating overwhelming responsibilities for the instructor.
You’ll learn:
- How to better understand the goals and mental models of individual learners.
- How to integrate the concepts of social, teaching and cognitive presence into course creation.
- How to “design in” choices and options for readings, assignments and projects.
- Where customization makes the most sense within a course.
- How to use rubrics to incorporate self- and peer-review processes.
- And much more.
The program presenter is Judith Boettcher, Ph.D., an author, consultant and leading voice on educational technology and online teaching. Dr. Boettcher has more than 20 years of experience at institutions such as Penn State and the University of Florida, and is co-author of the just-published Online Teaching Survival Guide: Simple and Practical Pedagogical Tips.
Who will benefit:
- Distance learning deans
- Distance learning directors and coordinators
- Instructional design professionals
- Faculty who teach online
- Program leaders
- Anyone interested in sound online pedagogy
It is possible to give students a rich, personalized educational experience online–without overloading the instructor. Find out how with a copy of this seminar!
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Judith Boettcher, Ph.D., has consulted with a wide range of universities, colleges, and business organizations and is widely published in higher education publications. Since 2003, she has worked with faculty, administrators, and deans on program planning for online and blended courses and programs; and she's given workshops, presentations, and keynotes as well as continued her writing.
Dr. Boettcher has delivered numerous seminars on online learning and instructional design and was a long-time member of the Syllabus/Campus Technology conference board.