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Technology Bootcamp

by Sloan-C
Feb 6 2008 - 1:00am
Mar 8 2008 - 12:59am
Key Online Workshop Information
Minimum Estimated Time Commitment:
~ 5 - 10 hours/week
Resources Provided in Workshop:

3+ hours of presentations as well as exemplary courses, viewable online until December 31st, 2008

1-hour Live Panel Discussions - Friday, February 15th, 22nd, 29th, and March 7th, 2pm-3pm ET

During the Panel Discussion - Participation in Live Q&A

After the Panel Discussion - Viewing of Q&A Session until December 31st, 2008

Event Summary:

Technology Bootcamp is a 4-week crash course for new cadets who seek to acquire new skills, or perhaps brush-up on old ones prior to the conference. As online educators, mastery of new technologies can help you stay ahead of the curve. Through hands-on technology demonstrations, you will obtain clear new ideas on how technology can improve you online classroom.

Complete Workshop Description
Online Workshop Description:

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Workshop Agenda at Glance

Activities begin Wednesday, February 6th. Live synchronous Sessions will be held on Friday, February 15th, 22nd, 29th, and March 7th, 2pm-3pm ET. All activity is recorded, even the live events, allowing you to watch the events at a later date if you are unable to attend. All workshop content will remain available until the end of the year.

Workshop Description

Yes, some of us do get paid to become avatars! Burks Oakley, Ray Schroeder, and John Bourne are cleanly shaven with new haircuts and are ready to put you through the ropes, both in-world and out.

Technology Bootcamp is a 4-week crash course for new cadets who seek to acquire new skills, or perhaps brush-up on old ones prior to the conference. As online educators, mastery of new technologies can help you stay ahead of the curve. Through hands-on technology demonstrations, you will obtain clear new ideas on how technology can improve you online classroom.

Schedule:
February 6th – February 8th Activities: Learn Moodle, the workshop’s learning management system, and Elluminate Live!, the workshop’s web conferencing platform. Watch recorded presentations and begin reviewing guest courses.
February 11th – February 15th Activities: Continue reviewing presentations and ancillary materials; participate in discussion forum with workshop facilitators, Burks Oakley, Ray Schroeder, and John Bourne.
February 18th – February 22nd Activities: Continue reviewing presentations and ancillary materials; participate in discussion forum with workshop facilitators. Live session on Feb. 22nd
Sloan-C Certificate Program Eligibility:

This online workshop can be counted toward the Sloan-C Online Teaching Certificate.

Technology Used in this Online Workshop:
Elluminate™ Live! ™: Elluminate’s powerful Live! software will take this workshop to a whole new level of interaction. Well suited for the classroom environment, Live! provides the flexibility our workshop needs, from a speaker delivering to hundreds of workshop participants, from a speaker delivering to hundreds of workshop participants, to multiple small discussion groups occurring in unison. Live! effectively delivers lecture-type speeches, while also having the ability to facilitate collaboration among many individuals.

Elluminate™ Live! ™: Elluminate’s powerful Live! software will take this workshop to a whole new level of interaction. Well suited for the classroom environment, Live! provides the flexibility our workshop needs, from a speaker delivering to hundreds of workshop participants, to multiple small discussion groups occurring in unison. Live! effectively delivers lecture-type speeches, while also having the ability to facilitate collaboration among many individuals.

Moodle: Sloan-C will use an open-source learning management system called Moodle to administer the asynchronous component of the workshop. Sloan-C has found Moodle to provide a flexible and user-friendly set of asynchronous collaboration and learning tools.

Moodle: Sloan-C will use an open-source learning management system called Moodle to administer the asynchronous component of the workshop. Sloan-C has found Moodle to provide a flexible and user-friendly set of asynchronous collaboration and learning tools. As with most open-source technologies, the Moodle software is free, making it a very cost-effective software package for any institution or company. We have found though that low-cost does not mean that you have to sacrifice quality. Moodle still provides a robust environment that is dynamic, interactive, and provides cross-platform learner access through a standard web browser.

Pricing Information:

Price: $590 Each Individual/Premium Sloan-C Member price: $440 w/coupon code* (you will enter the coupon code on the payment page of your shopping cart process). College Pass Member: 2 seats will be taken for this workshop. College Pass Member Pricing: No Cost w/coupon code* (you will enter the coupon code on the payment page of your shopping cart process) *Individual Premium Members receive 1 discount with membership, Institutional Premium Members receive 20 discounts, and College Pass Members receive 150 "free" seats in the entire 2008 Sloan-C Workshop series.

Presenter/Panelist Biographies
Biographies of Presenters/Panelists:

Burks Oakley II, University of Illinois

Burks Oakley II is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. From 1997 until 2007, he served as the director of the University of Illinois Online initiative. He now is a consultant working with Sloan-C. Oakley received his B.S. degree from Northwestern University and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Michigan. He has received numerous awards for his teaching and for his innovative use of technology in education. And you can find out a lot more about him on his website, which is at http://www.burksoakley.com.

Ray Schroeder, University of Illinois

Ray Schroeder is Professor Emeritus of Communication, Director of the Office of Technology-Enhanced Learning at the University of Illinois at Springfield, and Faculty Associate at the University of Illinois Online. He has taught more than two dozen online classes. As Director of Technology-Enhanced Learning he is dedicated to faculty development and pedagogical support of the online initiative. As Faculty Associate, Schroeder is engaged in the formation of online learning policy for the University of Illinois. He is a Sloan Consortium Distinguished Scholar in Online Learning 2002-2003 and the recipient of the 2002 Sloan-C award for the "Most Outstanding Achievement in ALN by an Individual.

John R. Bourne, The Sloan Consortium

John Bourne is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Olin College, Professor of Technology Entrepreneurship at Babson College, and directs the Sloan Center for on Online Education at Olin and Babson Colleges. The Sloan Center at Olin and Babson Colleges hosts the Sloan Consortium. He was previously Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Vanderbilt University, where he had been on the faculty since 1969. Dr. Bourne has been the Editor-in-Chief of the Begell House Critical Reviews in Biomedical Engineering since 1979. He founded the Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks and remains as editor. He established the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation supported Asynchronous Learning Network (ALN) Web in 1996.

Cancellation Policy:

If you register and pay for a Sloan-C workshop/seminar and are unable to attend, we will be happy to apply your payment to another Sloan-C workshop/seminar at your request. However, no refunds will be given. This offer is good for one year.

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