These sessions are being offered “à la carte” to all NMU instructors. You are welcome to attend all 9, or select only the topics that are most interesting to you and fit into your schedule.  We are also scheduling “open lab” times each day, where you can start practicing and applying the things you learn in the workshops, with IDT staff on hand to provide assistance if needed.

Workshops will be led by IDT staff.  Sessions will cover a wide range of topics, including podcasting, audio and video editing, web conferencing, classroom technology, and active learning. An EduCat Transition Overview presentation is also included in the program.

• View the complete schedule of workshops
• View session descriptions and register

To help us get an accurate headcount, we ask that you register for each individual workshop that you plan to attend.   Please e-mail cite@nmu.edu  if you have any questions.  We hope to see many of you at the workshops!

If you would like to participate from your own location, go to the Sloan-C webinar page to register.  If you do not have a Sloan-C account, you will need to create one before registering.  Be sure to indicate your affiliation with NMU when setting up your account.  I will be happy to assist if you have any questions.

Sloan-C also offers a wide variety of multi-day online workshops on online learning topics.  Sloan-C workshops have a registration charge, but institutional members discounts.  We also receive discounts on Sloan-C conferences.   If you are interested in any of the Sloan-C workshops, contact me for information about the discount codes.

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Getting Started in Online Teaching – A Brief Overview

Date: May 22, 2012 – 2:00pm – 3:30pm

This webinar is meant for those just embarking on the journey of online education and want to review some tips and tools to help enhance the learning experience for their students.  This webinar can also be a good refresher for those who have completed Sloan-C Getting Started Workshop in the past.

Webinar topics that will be covered;

•   A basic overview of quality online courses

•   How to start the online course conversion process.

•   Using Course Objectives To Lead The Design

•   Building the Course Syllabus For The Online Classroom

•   Developing A Strong Social Presence Online.

Instructional Design Effective Practices for Successful Online Learning

Date: June 19, 2012 – 2:00pm – 3:30pm

The purpose of the webinar is to provide relevant tools, knowledge, and skills on Instructional Design effective practices for faculty and practitioners to apply to online and blended course design and development. This information, as aligned within the Community of Inquiry (CoI) Framework, can assist faculty, course designers, instructional designers, and other practitioners in increasing engagement, learning, and success in the classroom.

The audience will learn specific and fundamental tools and effective practices from Instructional Design that can positively impact the creation and development of an online course, strengthen the effectiveness of instructional delivery, and increase the opportunities for deeper student engagement and success. Additionally, participants will examine how the information can be the piece missing from the transition from theory to practice and utilize the examples for filling the gap between the two realms. Further, the audience will be able to take a virtual swag bag of documents from the webinar for future use.

This three hour seminar is presented by the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI).  “In the online environment, a course is available 24/7. The continuous accessibility of the online classroom demands that you develop new time management strategies. In addition, managing learner issues can be more difficult in the online learning environment than in a traditional learning environment. For some learners, the fact that they do not have to look a person in the eye makes it easier to act differently and exhibit inappropriate behaviors. There are also ethical issues of plagiarism that need to be managed and legal issues, such as copyright, that need to be considered.

Dr. Tina Stavredes will present a practical, hands-on workshop for faculty members, instructional designers and technologists, and others supporting online learning who are interested in discovering new ways to manage the online course environment. The workshop will be presented in an interactive fashion with presentation of information interspersed with polls, discussions, and hands-on activities. Participants will leave the workshop with a ‘toolkit’ of ideas, templates, worksheets, and approaches to manage their online course.”

I hope that some of you are able to join us.  If you plan to attend, please sign up at http://idt.nmu.edu/registration

Questions?  Contact Matt Smock.

Wondering what’s new in mobiles, electronic books, learning analytics, and other emerging technology areas? Join Malcolm Brown and Veronica Diaz of ELI as they review the Horizon Report and examine how the report’s findings can be put to work at your institution. During this live hour and a half webinar, they’ll review various emerging technologies likely to have a significant impact on teaching and learning and creative expression over the next five years. They’ll also highlight how institutions across the world are implementing these technologies. The Horizon Report is an annual publication of the Horizon Project, a joint undertaking of the ELI and the New Media Consortium.

To register to join us at the group participation site, go to http://idt.nmu.edu/registration To register to participate on your own, click the links at the end of each description to go to the webinar’s home page for more information.

• Coding, Captioning, and Courses: Accessibility in the Digital Age on Monday, November 14 at 1:00 p.m.
  Join Malcolm Brown, EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative director, and Veronica Diaz, ELI associate director, as they moderate this webinar with Kathleen Bastedo and Nancy Swenson. It’s easy to get caught up in the excitement of making courses more stimulating, engaging, and interactive by adding content such as online videos, virtual worlds, and mobile devices. The rise of these technologies has encouraged faculty members to add more complexity to their online courses than ever before. However, accessibility and universal design considerations can be overlooked. This webinar will explore items related to designing your online courses to meet the needs of all your students. There will be a review of current laws related to accessibility and a review of strategies and resources that are available to meet today’s challenges.  Get more information from the ELI web site.
• Why do my colleagues keep teaching the same way? on Friday, December 9 at 2:00 p.m.
  Recent books such as Academically Adrift suggest that traditional teaching practices result in “limited learning” for large numbers of students, while evidence mounts that using research-based, interactive-engagement teaching practices increases student learning. So why don’t more faculty members adopt these more effective teaching practices? We’ll make use of recent research to help us better understand why many faculty members fail to make changes to their teaching practices despite evidence that it would benefit students.  Get more information from the TLT web site.
• Understanding and Working with Student Resistance to Active Learning on Friday, December 16 at 2:00 p.m.
  As faculty move towards implementation of more learner-centered teaching methods, they are sometimes dismayed by the students’ reactions.  Students often resist more active teaching methods, behavior that seems counter-productive to their own long-term interests.  This session will focus on describing an integrated theoretical model of student resistance to active teaching based on four major interdependent elements including situational factors, negative classroom experiences, cognitive development, and readiness to change; the model also incorporates the work of Carol Dweck on mindsets.  New instruments to measure student readiness to change will also be described as part of suggestions on how faculty can utilize the resistance model to better understand their students and develop more effective interventions.  Get more information from the TLT web site.

I hope to see many of you at our group site.  Please let me know if you have any questions.

The latest Sloan-C newsletter announced a new benefit for institutional members:  Sloan-C webinars are now FREE to us.  Look for IDT to host some group viewings of future Sloan-C webinars.  You may also want to check some of them out yourself.  Contact me if you have any questions.