SLOAN-C ONLINE WORKSHOP SERIES: Technology Bootcamp
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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, February 6th, 2008 (Start of online activities and discussions; viewing recorded presentations)
Synchronous Date: Friday, March 7th, 2pm-3pm ET – Live session conducted in online meeting room
Resources Provided:
- Presentations and other workshop materials, viewable online until December 31st, 2008
- Four, 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
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. Some concepts explored will be:
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
February 25th – February 29th Activities: Continue reviewing presentations and ancillary materials; participate in discussion forum with workshop facilitators. Live session on Feb. 29th
March 3rd – March 7th Activities: Continue reviewing presentations and ancillary materials; participate in discussion forum with workshop facilitators. Last live session on March. 7th.
Live Web Conferencing Sessions will be conducted on Friday, February 15th, 22nd, 29th, and March 7th, 2pm-3pm ET (Online using Elluminate Live!): facilitated by Burks Oakley, Ray Schroeder, and John Bourne. 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: $590 Each
Individual/Premium Sloan-C Member price: $440 with coupon code* (That's a $150 discount! Find out how to become a Premium Member)
College Pass Member Pricing: 2 College Pass seats (Find out how to become a CollegePass Member)
Presenter Biography:
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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