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Recent Seminars
Growing Successful Online Programs at a Small School
They might not want to meet on the football field, but in the arena of online education, small schools can compete effectively with far larger ones. Learn proven steps for launching new online programs, including how to gain faculty support, identify lead administrators, develop solid instructional designs, and provide technological help during the transition to the new delivery system.
audio Online Seminar • Recorded on Thursday, June 3rd, 2010
Free Web 2.0 Tools to Use Inside Your LMS
Teaching with Web 2.0 technologies can transform and reinvigorate your classes while unleashing student and faculty potential. This seminar will help you find the most powerful online applications and explain how to put them to work in your classes.
audio Online Seminar • Recorded on Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010
Best Practices in Online Teaching: Don’t Assume
We want our students to learn what we have to teach them. We want them to retain it. In the best case, we want them to enjoy the work, assimilate the driving principles, and look forward to each opportunity to make their work better. We diligently gear up and learn how to use slick software that allows students easy access to a wide variety of materials.
Principles for Improving Online Transparency, Quality
Transparency by Design, an initiative from a consortium of adult-serving educational institutions with significant commitments to distance education, is based on the premise that a well-informed student—or prospective student—benefits everyone. A key focus of the plan is providing program-specific outcomes data that allows students to make informed decisions about their education investment.
Time Management Tips for Online Instructors
Online instruction invariably requires more time for logistics than does face-to-face instruction due to interaction needs, extraneous cognitive load (mental effort needed to attend to non-content-related course elements), and poor self regulation by students.
11 Strategies for Managing Your Online Courses
If you think the flexibility of online teaching also means that it’s OK to “wing it” now and then, you’d be wrong. If anything, you have to be more organized, more consistent and more prepared for anything than ever before.
