SLOAN-C ONLINE WORKSHOP SERIES: Toppling Global Barriers: The Emerging Culture of the Online Classroom

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Key Information

 

Workshop Description
Workshop Schedule
Technology Information
Attendance Pricing
Panelist/Presenter Biographies

Key Information

Total Minimum Length: ~ 5 - 10 hours/week

Start Date: Wednesday, July 23^rd, 2008 (Start of online activities and discussions; viewing recorded presentations)

Synchronous Date: Friday, August 1^st, 2pm-3pm ET – Live session conducted in online meeting room

Resources Provided:

• Presentations and other workshop materials, viewable online until December 31^st, 2008
• 1-hour Live Panel Discussion – Friday, August 1^st, 2pm-3pm ET
• During the Panel Discussion – Participation in Live Q&A
• After the Panel Discussion – Viewing of Q&A Session until December 31^st, 2008

Workshop Agenda at Glance

Activities begin Wednesday, July 23^rd. A live synchronous Question and Answer Online Session will be held on Friday of the second week, August 1^st, 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

Cross-cultural virtual classrooms are fast becoming the rule rather than the exception. In today’s interconnected and independent world, the online learning environment is becoming more diverse. Faculty and students involved in international learning communities provide opportunities for both to understand the world across the breath, depth and complexities of human experiences. This workshop explores the opportunities and challenges institutions face as they expand their classroom doors overseas, such as instructor/learner preparation, conflict resolution, team building, and time zone/holiday management. Participating institutions will demonstrate how effective management of the global classroom contributes toward building human-to-human connections and rendering educational boundaries between countries irrelevant.

Schedule

July 23^rd – July 25^th 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.

July 28^th – August 1^st Activities: Continue reviewing presentations and ancillary materials; participate in discussion forum with workshop facilitators Molly Mott and Michael Mayo.

A Live Web Conferencing Session is conducted on Friday, August 1^st at 2PM(ET) (Online using Elluminate Live!): facilitated by Molly Mott and Michael Mayo. We will begin the session with an open round of comments from the facilitator and then open the forum up for Q&A and/or presentations/show-and-tell from workshop participants.  We will finish with a summary of thoughts from the facilitator.  THE SESSIONS WILL BE RECORDED FOR LATERVIEWING AT YOUR CONVENIENCE.

Technology Information

Sloan-C brings you the following technologies to provide an exciting experience during the 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, 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. For more information about Elluminate™, please visit the Elluminate page in the Sloan-C Vendor Corner.

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.

Attendance Pricing

Price: $295 Each

Individual/Premium Sloan-C Member price: $145 with coupon code* (That's a $150 discount! Find out how to become a Premium Member)

College Pass Member Pricing: Free with coupon code* (Find out how to become a CollegePass Member)

*This workshop is part of the Select Series and College Pass Members must use their additional 50 seats provided to take advantage of this workshop.

*(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 2007 Sloan-C Workshop series.)

Presenters:

Molly Mott, SUNY Canton
Michael Mayo, Kent State University

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.