Date: Wednesday, 04/06/11
Time: 12:00-1:00 PM CDT
Cost: $259 ($284 after 03/30/11)
Featured Higher Education Presenter: Jill Schiefelbein
Online courses are more popular than ever. If you haven’t been asked to teach one, it could happen soon.
But whether you’re new to online teaching, have taught a couple of online courses or many, teaching online poses a unique challenge. With the present economic and financial realities of today’s higher education world, teachers and trainers are often thrown into online teaching with minimal, if any, training, and very little guidance for improvement.
Many workshops and seminars about online classes focus on higher-level technologies or activities that instructors can use to engage students.
But Five Ways to Improve Interaction in Your Online Courses, a new Magna Online Seminar, offers a practical, well-rounded approach that will work no matter how little or how much online experience you possess. It takes a “small step” approach that any participant can use so they know exactly what’s needed to improve their mastery of online teaching and move forward.
Your instructor, Jill Schiefelbein, is an accomplished online course manager at Arizona State University. Her combination of experience, skill, and enthusiasm will help you make the most of what you learn. She’ll answer questions “live” during the seminar.
What the Seminar Covers:
•The variety of communication channels available in an online environment
•The pros and cons of each channel–video conferencing, audio conference, webinars, Skype, and more
•Customized tools to help strengthen communication with each channel
•Understanding media richness theory and how it affects online engagement and interaction
•You’ll take away at least one concrete goal for injecting personality, increasing student engagement, and enhancing interaction in an online class.
Connect many for the price of one
If your campus has more than one person who will benefit from this seminar, you’ll be pleased to know that you can fill a room with participants and only pay one low fee of $259 per single sign-on location.
Bonus: Free Facilitator’s Guide
Participants can put into practice what they discover at the seminar with the free Discussion Guide for Facilitators. It contains all the tools they'll need to help better apply what they learned during the seminar. It’s available with both the online seminar and the CD.
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