Event Date: 2/23/2011
Time: 12:00 pm Central
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1. Online
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3. Phone: 800-433-0499 ext. 2
How to Balance Online Learner Needs and Instructor Workload
The world of distance education is experiencing red-hot growth. But without a learner-centered approach, both teachers and students may soon give online learning the cold shoulder.
Why the need for an altered approach to online education? Distance education has tremendous potential, but increasingly, students and instructors are experiencing frustration on a number of fronts:
•Instructors’ workloads are increasing. The need to respond individually to students can be all-consuming and exhausting, and instructors are finding their workloads are becoming difficult to maintain.
•Students miss a sense of community. A classroom fosters a community, and students often feel isolated without this connection, which may negatively impact student learning.
The problems are real, but they’re not insurmountable. The solution lies in creating a learner-centered community that encourages students to assume more of the learning responsibility while reducing the instructor’s workload.
You can learn how to make this happen in the Magna audio online seminar How to Balance Online Learner Needs and Instructor Workload. Led by two experienced online educators, Professors Tammy Stuart Peery and Samantha Streamer-Veneruso, the audio online seminar will help you:
•Identify and implement strategies for establishing an instructor presence while decreasing teacher workload.
•Combine learner-centered, interactive instructional activities with targeted instructor feedback to enhance student achievement and retention.
•Establish an “invisible” presence in your courses.
Distance education is changing the paradigm of education, so it’s only natural that you must adapt your own personal skills to meet this new dynamic. This seminar will provide tangible, working solutions that you can use to modify your approach and create active learning. You’ll learn how to:
•Create an environment that’s welcoming to students, yet compels to them to work and think individually.
•Develop assignments and grading strategies to increase student interaction.
•Avoid feeling overwhelmed by the perceived 24x7 nature of student participation in asynchronous online courses.
•Connect students to other members of their class, thereby reducing their reliance on instructors.
By the end of the course, you’ll have the blueprint for a new approach to distance education. You’ll discover a more fulfilling, less stressful teaching methodology. Your students will enjoy a much more fulfilling educational experience, and your course evaluations will reflect it.
Who Should Attend
Any educator from a two- or four-year college or university will benefit from the seminar.
The seminar will appeal to the following positions:
•Faculty (full and part-time)
•Department Chairs
•Instructional Designers
Come One, Come All
Because our registration fee is priced per connection, you can invite as many people as you’d like to the seminar. Participants often fill up a classroom or an auditorium with staff. The unique pricing not only provides you with tremendous value, it’s also a great way to build your own learning community.
About the Presenters
Tammy Stuart Peery has been teaching online for over a decade. An Assistant Professor and English Department Chair at Montgomery College in Germantown, Maryland, she has been the faculty chair of the college’s Distance Learning Task Group for five years.
Professor Peery has earned Master Course Reviewer certification from Quality Matters. She was a member of the design team for Montgomery College’s online EN102 common course template, and in 2010, she was recognized as the MDLA Distance Educator of the Year.
Samantha Streamer-Veneruso has been a faculty member at Montgomery College for over 8 years and is the English Department Chair at the Rockville Campus. Currently in the English Department, she has over 10 years of online teaching experience. She was the lead designer for two of Montgomery College’s online common course templates, which are fully-designed, ready-to-teach online courses.
Now includes a Discussion Guide for Facilitators
Participating in a Magna Online Seminar as a team can help leverage unique insights, foster collaboration, and build momentum for change. Each seminar now includes a Discussion Guide for Facilitators which provides step-by-step instructions for generating productive discussions and thoughtful reflection. You’ll also get guidelines for continuing the conversation after the event, implementing the strategies discussed, and creating a feedback loop for sharing best practices and challenges.
Description Price
Event Registration $249
Event Registration and Seminar CD $518 $384
Seminar CD only $269
Seminar CD w/ Campus Access License $469
Event Registration and Seminar CD w/ Campus Access License $718 $584
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