2007 Sloan-C College Pass – Looking for a cost effective way to give your staff and faculty access to the full range of Sloan-C online workshops? Find out more about the Sloan-C College Pass.
SLOAN-C ONLINE WORKSHOP SERIES: GETTING STARTED - ONLINE COURSE DEVELOPMENT BASICS
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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, April 25th, 2007 (Start of online activities and discussions; viewing recorded presentations)
Synchronous Date: Thursday, May 10th and Thursday, May 17th, 2pm-3pm ET– Live session conducted in online meeting room
Resources Provided:
- 3+ hours of presentations as well as exemplary courses, viewable online until December 31st, 2007
- 2, 1-hour Live Panel Discussions - Thursday, May 10th and Thursday, May 17th, 2pm-3pm ET
- During the Panel Discussion - Participation in Live Q&A
- After the Panel Discussion - Viewing of Q&A Session until December 31st, 2007
Workshop Agenda at Glance
Activities begin Wednesday, April 25th. A live synchronous Question and Answer Online Session will be held on Thursday of the second and third week, May 10thand May 17th, 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
Welcome to the Sloan-C Online Workshop Series. The market for qualified online higher education instructors continues to grow exponentially. This workshop is for faculty: new to online education, motivated to enhance current teaching skills, challenged by the requirements of creating a functional, online classroom, or intrigued by the opportunities presented by online education and desire a guided approach as an introduction to the discipline. This workshop leverages the expertise of Sloan-C's effective practices and provides both a pedagocial, practical, and hands-on experience, enabling workshop participants to walk away with an online 'toolkit' for immediate application to their own online academic environment.
The first and second weeks, faculty will explore actual online courses in several disciplines and institutions, The third and final week participants will build a syllabus leading to the major outcome of the workshop: building a complete online course module relevant to their own educational interests. The following faculty members and institutions will be sharing their courses:
Fabio Chacon, SUNY Empire State College, Coordinator of Instructional Design
Judith Effken, Arizona State University, Assistant Professor in the College of Nursing
Susan Ko, Executive Director, Center for Teaching and Learning, University of Maryland University College
Shari McCurdy, Associate Director, Office of Technology-Enhanced Learning,
University of Illinois at Springfield
Kaye Shelton, Director of Online Education; Asst Professor in Adult Education, at Dallas Baptist University
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Toward the end of the second and third workshop week, we will hold a live, web conferencing synchronous question and answer online session facilitated by Joan D. McMahon. The session will discuss the issues addressed in the activities and presentations. YOU DO NOT NEED TO ATTEND THE LIVE SESSION!!! Some of us are more comfortable with posting asynchronously, while others enjoy the excitement of a live event, but both options are available in this workshop. The live, web conferencing sessions will be recorded for your convenience. A parallel discussion and related activities will be conducted asynchronously with the facilitators in the workshop's discussion forums.
Schedule
April 25th – 27th 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.
April 30th – May 4th Activities: Continue reviewing guest courses; participate in discussion forum with workshop facilitator, Joan D. McMahon, and guest course faculty.
May7h – May 10th Activities: Continue reviewing guest courses; participate in discussion forum with workshop facilitator, Joan D. McMahon. Live, web conferencing session: Thursday, May 10th, 2pm – 3pm ET.
May 14th – May 18th Activities: Key topic areas: going public with course syllabus and module. Hands on activities facilitated by Joan D. McMahon. Asynchronous discussions are conducted in the forum. Live, web conferencing session: Thursday, May 17th, 2pm – 3pm ET.
Live Web Conferecing Sessions are conducted on the following Thursdays: May 10thand May 17th at 2PM (ET) (Online using Elluminate Live!):facilitated by Joan D. McMahon. We will kick off the session with an open round of comments from Joan McMahon 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 presenters. THE SESSIONS WILL BE RECORDED FOR LATER VIEWING 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 w/coupon code* ( That's a $150 discount! Find out how to become a premium member)
College Pass Member Pricing: Free w/coupon code* (Find out how to become a College Pass 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 2007 Sloan-C Workshop series.)
Registration
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Presenter Biography:
Joan D. McMahon,Transforming Leaders, LLC
Joan D. McMahon Graduated with an Ed.D. from George Washington University and has worked in the area of faculty and curriculum transformation for over 30 years. She has been teaching online since 1997. At Towson University (MD) she has been Professor of Human Resource Development and used her background in adult education and training as the Faculty Coordinator at the Center for Instructional Advancement and Technology. She was among the cohort of University of Maryland faculty who developed online courses in the Web-Initiative –in-Teaching project. She also taught in the Health Science Department and was instrumental in developing national standards for Health Educators upon which curricula were based. Her area of expertise is in behavior change for lifelong impact. Joan is a certified QM peer reviewer, instructional designer, and trainer.
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. |
