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Professional Development Seminars
MAKE YOUR PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT DOLLARS GO FARTHER
Provide campus-wide access for all faculty and staff! Your entire
institution can receive one of these
live seminars for less than the cost of a single conference
registration or round-trip airfare for one.
Exercise the option of participating as a distance learner in a
live, televised seminar, or time-shift the viewing
and work through the seminar asynchronously. These distance learning
seminar packages are designed to:
- Maximize learning in both live and taped formats and
- Facilitate the application of information
Professional Development Seminars
Distance learning seminar packages designed to maximize learning
and facilitate the application of information.
The new Professional Development Seminar Package Includes:
- Online resources to lay the foundation, provide context, and
offer probing questions to stimulate interest
prior to viewing the seminar.
- Seminar features presenters and
panelists with ‘real-world’ experience and insights,
and provides the opportunity to interact with these individuals. You
have the option to make as many
videotape copies of the seminar as your institution needs for
faculty, staff, and administrators,*
as well as the option to deliver the seminars online by
them on your campus network*
- Online resources facilitate application of the seminar
information directly to participants’
own institutions, departments, and disciplines
*The institution must limit access to videotapes or to
video-streaming to its own faculty and staff.
2004 - 2005 Teaching and Learning for the 21st
Century Programs -
Available on tape or CD!
Saving Dollars and Making Sense: Scalability in Developing
Distance Courseware
Program Brochure
Do individual colleges and universities really need 15, or 30, or
more different versions of
online courses in history, or English, or government “101,” each
created by a different faculty
member? A more effective, efficient model is to use a team of academic
personnel — faculty,
instructional designers, and I.T. professionals — to design a single,
customizable course to be
taught by many faculty, in multiple sections, over numerous semesters.
Faculty frequently balk
at this notion, believing it to be an infringement on academic
freedom. But, many faculty often
teach from textbooks and other instructional materials they did not
create themselves.
By extension, a customizable curriculum created by someone else can
also be adapted successfully.
This professional development seminar will demonstrate ways to
customize “third
party” courseware and the advantages of achieving economies of scales:
time and labor efficiency,
cost-effectiveness, enhancement of the quality of course elements and
design, and
improvement of student learning and retention.
Saving Dollars and Making Sense: "Un-bundling" Faculty Duties
in Distance Courses
Program Brochure
Current surveys show that course management is a major concern for
faculty teaching at a
distance. Many are overwhelmed with student requests for information
and guidance on
course administration and navigation problems, and they are spending
so much time on those
issues they cannot focus on instruction. Research into the costs of
distance courses reveals
that a key strategy for improving both "the bottom line" and teaching
effectiveness is
"un-bundling" faculty duties: using faculty exclusively to interact
with students on specific
instructional issues, and using teaching assistants, mentors, and
other staff to handle all other
student concerns. Many university faculty “un-bundle” already in
face-to-face courses, using
teaching assistants, graders, discussion leaders, IT personnel, etc.
This program will show
how that practice can be translated into distance courses.
Pedagogy 101 for Distance Learning
Program Brochure
In response to repeated requests by faculty, this professional
development seminar will be a
compilation of best practices for teaching distance learning courses.
In the ten previous years,
our professional development programs have presented essential
information on key elements
of good distance learning pedagogy---survival tips for new online
instructors, creating learning
communities among students, evaluating and customizing courses created
by third parties,
assessing and evaluating distance learners, improving retention in
distance courses, etc. Now,
in response to numerous calls for concentrated presentations of more
effective, efficient ways to
teach at a distance, leading theorists and experienced practitioners
will present proven techniques
for distance faculty.
Pedagogy 102 for Distance Learning
Program
Brochure
This professional development seminar will be a continuation of the
presentation on this topic in
February 2005. This seminar will pick up where Pedagogy 101 left off
by providing a compilation
of best practices and more effective, efficient ways to teach distance
courses. It will feature
panelists who are successful practitioners and highly-regarded
theorists presenting the most
current and most useful pedagogical models and applications.
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Critical Challenges in Higher Education 2003 - 2004
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Creative Strategies for Tough Financial Times
Learn how innovative institutions are using new strategies, and
applying familiar ones in new ways, to generate much-needed income
and to cope with difficult economic circumstances.
- The REAL Cost of Online Courses
Discover the hidden costs of creating online courses "on the cheap,"
how to calculate your institution's true costs, the resources needed
to develop effective courses, ways to control costs without
degrading course quality, and what it takes to make online courses
less expensive than traditional ones.
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CyberINSecurity? Prevention & Protection Solutions
Find out how to identify external and internal threats to your
institution's "cybersecurity," overcome system vulnerabilities, and
act aggressively to establish cyber-defense.
K-12 Teacher Induction
- Critical Challenges in Distance Education:
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Previous Teleconferences
The LeCroy Center for Educational Telecommunications in partnership
with the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) presents
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