Posts Tagged ‘online orientation’

May 9 - Practical Strategies for Online Faculty Orientation

By: Mary Bart in Distance Learning Administration

Regardless of how much teaching experience you have, there’s often a good measure of anxiety when you teach your very first online course. Beyond the pedagogical hurdles, you wonder if students will be able to tell that you’re new to the online classroom, whom you can turn to for tech support, and how you can be more efficient with your time.


February 9 - How to Orient New Instructors to an Online Course FAST!

By: Mary Bart in Online Seminars

Online faculty orientation can be a tricky proposition. It takes careful planning to seamlessly integrate a new instructor and create a high-quality learning experience for student right from the start. This seminar, led by a veteran of Penn State’s World Campus, will show you the proven techniques that make all the difference.


May 15 - Six Steps to Creating an Effective Online Orientation Program

By: Christopher Hill in Distance Learning Administration

“If you’ve never taken a web-based course you don’t know what you do in the online classroom, you don’t know how to use the tools in the online classroom; you don’t know how to do the equivalent of how to raise your hand.” So says Danielle Karpus, Distance Learning Support Specialist at Cuyahoga Community College.