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Getting Started: Online Course Development Basics

by Sloan-C
Jan 17 2007 - 1:00am
Feb 9 2007 - 1:00am
Key Online Workshop Information
Minimum Estimated Time Commitment:
~ 5 - 10 hours/week
Resources Provided in Workshop:

3+ hours of presentations as well as exemplary courses, viewable online until December 31st, 2007

2, 1-hour Live Panel Discussions - Thursday, February 1stand Thursday, February 8th, 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

Event Summary:

Based on research and the Sloan-C effective practices, this workshop provides the foundation for designing and delivering online courses. Faculty gain enhanced pedagogical knowledge and learn effective strategies for creative, online classroom facilitation. During the three-week workshop, facilitators will review the benefits and challenges of online curriculum development and teaching and address the qualities of effective online education. The workshop is designed as an 'active' learning experience, enabling faculty to explore actual online courses in several disciplines and institutions, as well as build a syllabus leading to the major outcome of the workshop: building a complete online course module relevant to their own educational interests.

Complete Workshop Description
Online 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

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:

January 17th – 19th 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 22nd – January 26th Activities: Continue reviewing guest courses; participate in discussion forum with workshop facilitator, Joan D. McMahon, and guest course faculty.

January 29th – February 2nd Activities: Continue reviewing guest courses; participate in discussion forum with workshop facilitator, Joan D. McMahon. Live, web conferencing session: Thursday, February 1st, 2pm – 3pm ET.

February 5th – February 9th 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, February 8th, 2pm – 3pm ET.

Live Web Conferecing Sessions are conducted on the following Thursdays: February 1st, and February 8th 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.

Sloan-C Certificate Program Eligibility:

This online workshop can be counted toward the Sloan-C Online Teaching Certificate.

Pricing Information:

Price: $295 Each

Individual/Premium Sloan-C Member price: $145 w/coupon code* (you will enter the coupon code on the payment page of your shopping cart process)

College Pass Member Pricing: No Cost w/coupon code* (you will enter the coupon code on the payment page of your shopping cart process)

*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.

Presenter/Panelist Biographies
Biographies of Presenters/Panelists:

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.

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