SLOAN-C ONLINE WORKSHOP SERIES: Assessment Advances Using Emerging Technologies
Links to important information about the workshop:
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, January 16th, 2008 (Start of online activities and discussions; viewing recorded presentations)
Synchronous Date: Friday, January 25th, 2pm-3pm ET – Live session conducted in online meeting room
Resources Provided:
- Presentations and other workshop materials, viewable online until December 31st, 2008
- 1-hour Live Panel Discussion – Friday, January 25th, 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
Workshop Agenda at Glance
Activities begin Wednesday, January 16th. A live synchronous Question and Answer Online Session will be held on Friday of the second week, January 25th, 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
What is my grade? How am I doing? Performance evaluation throughout the learning path of a student in an online environment is evolving. How are new technologies and applications helping us understand assessment? Lets examine emerging technologies that assist with assessment that will enable us to better serve our anytime, anywhere lifestyles. Concepts included will be: student learning and programmatic effectiveness.
Schedule
January 16th– January 18th 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.
January 21st– January 25th Activities: Continue reviewing presentations and ancillary materials; participate in discussion forum with workshop facilitators, Gary Brown and Shari McCurdy.
A Live Web Conferencing Session is conducted on Friday, January 25th at 2PM(ET) (Online using Elluminate Live!): facilitated by Gary Brown and Shari McCurdy. We will begin the session with an open round of comments from the facilitators and then open the forum up for Q&A and/or presentations/show-and-tell from workshop participants. We will finish with summary thoughts from the facilitators. 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)
*(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 Biography:
Gary Brown, Washington State University
Gary Brown directs the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Technology at Washington State University. He has written and presented extensively on undergraduate learning & assessment. He has been a National Learning Communities fellow, a leader on a FIPSE funded project for assessing and promoting students' critical thinking, and, in collaboration with the National Learning Infrastructure Initiative, Coalition for Networked Institutions, and The TLT Group, he helped lead the Transformative Assessment Practices (TAPS) project. Gary has worked with a variety of professional associations on the assessment of outcomes and costs of educational practices and innovations, and he has received NUTN awards for best research for 3 of the past 4 years.
Shari McCurdy, University of Illinois at Springfield
Shari McCurdy is the Associate Director of the Office of Technology Enhanced Learning and an adjunct faculty member of the Educational Leadership Department at the University of Illinois at Springfield. She has created, developed and teaches fully online graduate courses in educational technology. McCurdy directs grant projects that examine the assessment of learning outcomes and the use of synchronous technologies in online learning. She has presented at numerous technology conferences on topics ranging from best practices in online learning to plagiarism in the electronic classroom.
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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