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Recent Seminars
Data Driven Decision Making for Online Instructional Design
With constrained budgets and increasing calls for evidence of learning effectiveness, online programs are being forced to continually evaluate programs with an eye toward increased effectiveness. This seminar will introduce participants to strategies for leveraging analytics to inform the instructional design processes and improvements.
video Online Seminar • Recorded on Tuesday, March 15th, 2011
Providing Multiple Paths for Learning
Students come to an online course with different interests, prior knowledge, and preferred learning styles. This is something that Stephen Holland, chair of the English department at Muscatine Community College and online learning and training associate at the Eastern Iowa Community College District, takes into account whenever he creates or seeks to improve an online course.
Teaching Students with Learning Disabilities in the Online Classroom
Students with learning disabilities tend to learn better in the online environment, but institutions are not doing enough to prepare instructors to meet their needs, says Mary Beth Crum, an online instructor at the University of Wisconsin—Stout and Walden University.
Four Pillars of Online Course Quality
The rapid growth of online education, coupled with instances of lax academic integrity and cases involving questionable instructional quality, has put the entire industry under the microscope. As a result, today’s distance education programs are looking to not only prove the quality of their programs, but improve them as well.
Teach More Effectively with Customizing Learning Experiences
Customized course content can actually reduce faculty workload, while creating a rich learning experience and better learning outcomes for students. This seminar presents a model for personalizing online coursework without overtaxing faculty.
audio Online Seminar • Recorded on Wednesday, July 14th, 2010
Teaching an Online Course Developed by Others
Online courses are increasingly designed by a team of educators, with the express purpose of creating standardized course content for use over several different units. Instructors who have little or no role in the development process are commonly asked to teach such courses. Overcoming the challenges and capitalizing on the opportunities of standardized course content is critical for every member of the online course team.
Dr. Susan Ko is the executive director of the Center for Teaching and Learning at the University of Maryland University College, a center providing professional development opportunities to more than 3,000 faculty worldwide. She’s an experienced educator in both classroom-based programs and distance education and currently teaches in the Masters of Distance Education program at UMUC.
Dr. Ko is also an accomplished author, having co-written a leading book on the subject of online instruction, Teaching Online: A Practical Guide.