SLOAN-C ONLINE WORKSHOP SERIES: Support Services and Emerging Technologies
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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, January 9th, 2008 (Start of online activities and discussions; viewing recorded presentations)
Synchronous Date: Friday, January 18th, 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 18th, 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 9th. A live synchronous Question and Answer Online Session will be held on Friday of the second week, January 18th, 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
A student's online academic journey can be complex, but should it? When designed properly, emerging technologies can assist both institutions and students. What does an institution need to support online learning endeavors? Lets explore creative applications of technology for:
- staff and faculty development and training
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library considerations
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academic and student support services
- open source utilization and partnerships
- peer learning, and
- self-learning paradigms.
Schedule
January 9th– January 11th 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 14th– January 18th Activities: Continue reviewing presentations and ancillary materials; participate in discussion forum with workshop facilitators, Karen Vignare and Judy Baker.
A Live Web Conferencing Session is conducted on Friday, January 18th at 2PM(ET) (Online using Elluminate Live!): facilitated by Karen Vignare and Judy Baker. 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:
Karen Vignare, Michigan State University
Karen Vignare currently serves as the Director of the Customer Experience for MSU Global at Michigan State University. In that role, Karen is responsible for creating online entrepreneurial approaches for extending both non-credit and credit programs at MSU. Besides supervising content creation, she oversees all customer services. She has published research on online learning retention, models, business practices and blended learning. She is an adjunct professor teaching Customer Relationship Management and Marketing on Internet courses. Karen serves on several organizational boards--NUTN, Distance Education. Karen has served as a full-time faculty member at SUNY-Alfred State in the marketing, retail, and computer technology departments. She also served as a vice president and political economist for a Wall Street financial firm. She has an MBA from the University of Rochester's William Simon School of Business and a BS from Frostburg State University in political science and economics. She is currently attending doctoral classes at Nova Southeastern University.
Judy Baker, Foothill College
Judy Baker currently manages distance learning at Foothill College in Los Altos Hills, CA as the Dean of Foothill Global Access. Formerly, she served as Executive Dean of the Virtual College in the Open Campus at Florida Community College at Jacksonville (FCCJ) where she managed the delivery of online courses and the call center. From 2001 - 2004, she was Dean of Online, Library and Technology Services at San Diego Miramar College, she was responsible for faculty development, staff supervision, and budget management in the area of innovations in instructional technologies as well as the District's award-winning distance learning program. At Texas Woman's University from 1987 - 1999, Dr. Baker served as a professor, interim department chair, graduate program coordinator, undergraduate program coordinator, grant director, search committee chair, grant writer, research investigator, and graduate research supervisor, in addition to teaching a variety of graduate and undergraduate health sciences courses. She has taught a variety of community health courses at both the graduate and undergraduate levels via distance and on-campus delivery. Dr. Baker earned her Ph.D. in community health from the University of Texas at Austin in 1987. She received a Master of Social Work from Virginia Commonwealth University in 1980 and a Bachelor of Arts degree from the College of William and Mary in 1978. She has authored 20 publications and conducted dozens of presentations at national and state conferences on topics pertaining to distance and health education.
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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