Academic Impressions: Hybrid Learning: Course Design and Faculty Development

Learn how to create an effective hybrid learning instructional model and faculty development program.

March 24, 2011 :: 12:00 - 1:30 p.m. CDT

Hybrid learning models are one of the fastest-growing delivery modes in higher education. The growth of hybrid models has been fueled in large part by students with differing technology comfort levels, institutions with physical space constraints, and an increase in the demand for more scheduling options.

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In order to successfully launch a hybrid learning initiative, institutions must have several components in place: a hybrid (re)design faculty development program, technical support of instructional technologies, and a sound institutional implementation plan. Join us online to learn how to address each of these critical components and others.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
You will receive a hybrid learning (re)design process checklist, which will incorporate steps to effectively map your course and ensure quality assurance and alignment standards. Additionally, our expert instructor will present information, tips, and advice on the following:

•Emerging technologies and the 21st-century learner
•Best practices and considerations for developing a sound hybrid learning institutional implementation plan
•Components of a successful faculty development (re)design program

WHAT PAST PARTICIPANTS SAID ABOUT THIS EVENT

•"This Web conference not only answered many questions I had related to hybrid learning but gave me practical, easy-to-follow tools to assist in developing a blended course."
•"The incorporation of usable models for assessment and planning, whether it be other institutions or professional research organizations, gives credence to the presenter's expertise on the subject."

Academic Impressions: Hybrid Learning: Course Design and Faculty Development

Online Classroom: How to Balance Online Learner Needs and Instructor Workload

Featured Higher Education Presenters: Samantha Streamer-Veneruso and Tammy Stuart Peery

Date: Wednesday, 02/23/11
Time: 12:00-1:15 PM CST
Cost: $249 ($274 after 02/16/11)
Email: mailto:support@magnapubs.com

The following is an excerpt from a recent Online Classroom article by Tammy Stuart Peery and Samantha Streamer Veneruso. On February 23 they will lead the Magna Online Seminar How to Balance Online Learner Needs and Instructor Workload.
Instructor workload in online courses can be overwhelming. However, creating a community of learners that encourages students to take more responsibility for their learning fosters deeper learning for the students and can allow the instructor to manage his or her workload more effectively.

There are a number of ways to encourage student-to-student interaction in online courses. Of utmost importance is setting the expectation for student participation from the first day they log in to the course. The course syllabus should set clear guidelines for participation expectations (number of posts, frequency of posts, types of posts, sample student posts) as well as netiquette expectations.

The instructor does need to plan to be more frequently present in the first few weeks to encourage and reinforce this participation. It’s particularly important that instructors notice when students aren’t participating and give them a gentle nudge to reinforce how important their interaction is through an email or phone call. A strong, encouraging presence at the beginning helps to retain students and demonstrate that their presence is important.

As the course progresses, each major assignment should have a student-to-student interactive component that is clearly explained and modeled in the assignment description. In addition, students should be provided with rubrics or other measures that clearly indicate how their interaction with each other will be assessed and why it’s important to their understanding of the material.

When instructors clearly communicate a relevant purpose for the interaction as well as a clear assessment method, students become more confident and interested in participating. Another element that is especially key is including a self-reflective component, where students can think about how and when they are participating and make a plan for how they might participate even more fully.

Once students are given the opportunity to take stock of how much they’ve done and learned by participating with each other, they really grow to value the opportunities the teacher provides to interact. As a course moves forward, instructors can then be more targeted in their communication with students, sending personalized feedback each week to a different group of students, or summarizing a discussion rather than responding to each post within it. Doing so allows the student interaction to be the focus of the discussion rather than the instructor’s response to each individual being paramount.

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.

Samantha Streamer-Veneruso has been a faculty member at Montgomery College in Maryland 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.

With One Price, Invite as Many Attendees as You Want

This audio online seminar is priced per connection, which allows you to invite as many attendees as you’d like. You can fill up a classroom or auditorium for the seminar, creating your own community of learners. It’s a value that simply can’t be beat.

Inviting the Right Personnel
While the cost per connection allows you to invite as many people as you’d like, be sure to extend an invitation to your key online educators, including:
•Faculty (full- and part-time)
•Department Chairs
•Instructional Designers

This seminar will apply to anyone at a two- or four-year college.

Online Classroom: How to Balance Online Learner Needs and Instructor Workload

Dillard University Justice Ortique Mock Trial Center to hold Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal Hearings

Thursday, February 3rd 2011

Judge Love will give pre-trial lecture to Dillard students Wednesday, February 2nd from 4 – 5 p.m.

The Justice Revius O. Ortique, Jr. Mock Trial Center will hold its first official court activities with a pre-trial lecture by Appeals Court Justice Terri Love and oral arguments of the official docket of the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals.

On Wednesday, February 2, 2011 at 4 p.m., Judge Terri Love’s lecture will give Dillard students who are interested in law an opportunity to gain firsthand knowledge about the legal profession and the myriad of processes and procedures involved in court hearings and the appellate process.

In addition, students are also invited to the hearings being held on Thursday, February 3, 2011, at 10:00 a.m. in which Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal Judges Dennis Bagneris, Sr., Terri Love, and Max Tobias, Jr. will hear oral arguments of the official court docket of cases at the Justice Revius O. Ortique, Jr. Mock Trial Center. “Justice Ortique was a judicial trailblazer, civil rights activist, and mentor to many judges and we are honored to hold oral arguments at a location that recognizes his contributions to Louisiana law and public service,” said Judge Love.

Thursday’s hearings will expose students and the community to real-time court hearings and educate them regarding the intricacies of trials in the appellate system. The Fourth Circuit has jurisdiction over civil and criminal appeals originating from the trial courts of Orleans, Plaquemines, and St. Bernard Parishes.

Students, faculty, and staff interested in attending the lecture and/or court hearings should contact Travis Chase at 816-4713.

Dillard University Justice Ortique Mock Trial Center to hold Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal Hearings

10th Annual UNCFSP/NLM HBCU ACCESS Conference June 13-15, 2011 "Celebrating 10 Years of Health Information ACCESS at HBCUs"

The 10th Annual UNCFSP/NLM HBCU ACCESS Conference will be held June 13-15, 2011 at the National Library of Medicine in Bethesda Maryland. The theme this year is "Celebrating 10 Years of Health Information ACCESS at HBCUs". Learn from NIH and University health experts presenting on current research; hear about the outcomes and impacts of the ACCESS Project from awarded campus-community teams at HBCUs reporting on successful outreach and training projects; discover a new funding opportunity, with the release of the new ACCESS Project 2011-2012 Request for Proposals; learn how you can advance access to and use of NLM online resources with a resulting impact on health literacy on your campus and in African-American communities.

The Four Funded Institutions for 2010-2011 are:
Alcorn State University
Alcorn State University (ASU) Easy ACCESS to Health Information Project PI (Dr. Robin Christian), with the support of a core campus team representing the Department of Nursing. and their community partners (Natchez Regional Hospital, Library, and Senior Center; Harriet Person Memorial Library, Community Hospital, Woodville, Public Library, Alcorn State University Infirmary- Lorman Campus, Concordia Parish Library), is dedicated to improving access to health care in a rural community. The ECSU eHealth project focuses on health promotion, increased empowerment, and self management of chronic illness in 4 countries in Mississippi and 1 parish in Louisiana. The ECSU eHealth project aims to decrease barriers to eHealth information by establishing 8 community sites where the public will be trained and have free access to health information online, utilizing a mobile health unit to reach outlying community sites to increase access to information and health care, and introducing eHealth technology into the nursing curriculum at a University in rural Mississippi.

Howard University
Project Expand Consumer Health Information Access
Howard University’s (HU) Project Expand Consumer Health Information Access PI (Ms. Cynthia L. Henderson), with the support of a core campus team representing the campus Louis Stokes Health Sciences and campus partners Founders, Divinity, Business, Social Work and Law Libraries, is determined to promote the use of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) consumer health information databases among non-health sciences librarians, students, and faculty at Howard University. The HU Project Expand Consumer Health Information Access will provide training to the community using a train the trainer model supporting academic librarians teaching a workshop on searching NLM consumer health databases for users at the public library of their choice. The HU Project Expand Consumer Health Information Access focuses on bringing knowledge of NLM health consumer health information resources to librarians and users

University of the District of Columbia
Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Project
The University of the District of Columbia (UDC) Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Project PI (Dr. Carolyn E. Cousin), with the support of a core campus team representing the Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, and their community partner (Georgetown University, Zion Baptist Church, Berean Baptist Church, Shiloh Baptist Church, and Emmanuel Baptist Church), is determined to increase health literacy in the African American Community in Washington DC. The UDC project focuses on increasing awareness of the NLM online Health Resources, and faculty, student, and community training through its Health Awareness Day and The Health Knowledge and Contemplation Pilot Project.

Winston-Salem State University
Campus and Community Health Literacy Initiative (CCHLI)
Winston-Salem State University’s (WSSU) E-Health Literacy Initiative (ELI) Campus and Community Initiative (CCHLI) PI (Dr. Cynthia Williams Brown), with the support of a core campus team representing the Departments of Human Performance and Sport Sciences and Secondary Education, and their community partners (Forsyth County Public Library, Goler Memorial AMEZ Church, and C.G. O’Kelly Library), is determined to increase awareness and utilization of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) online health resources to enhance eHealth literacy and improving health status of minority populations. The WSSU CCHLI focuses on curriculum development, training, eHealth information dissemination, research. The ECSU eHealth project aims to increase awareness, dissemination, and utilization of the NLM databases in all undergraduate health education courses, its campus, and surrounding community; and evaluate the effectiveness of an eHealth literacy program. The CCHLI will target students, faculty, and community participants including seniors, adults with chronic diseases, and underserved adults from minority populations.

You could be one of the funded institutions for 2011-2012! (Conference attendance is required of institutions seeking to respond to the 2011-2012 UNCFSP/NLM eHealth ACCESS RFP). Please go to www.uncfsp.org/NLM-HBCU-ACCESS for more information.

The 10th Annual UNCFSP/NLM HBCU ACCESS Conference
"Celebrating 10 Years of Health Information ACCESS at HBCUs"

Save the Dates: June 13-15, 2011
Early Registration By: May 13, 2011
The UNCF Special Programs Corporation (UNCFSP), in collaboration with the National Library of Medicine (NLM), is hosting the 10th Annual Health Conference, “Celebrating 10 Years of Health Information ACCESS at HBCUs”. The Conference examines the health literacy, health research, and health disparities needs of underserved populations. During the conference participants will experience:
1.NIH and University health researchers presenting on current research in tandem with keynote addresses
2.ACCESS Project Principal Investigators at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) reporting on successful eHealth outreach and training projects
3.The release of the new UNCFSP/NLM HBCU ACCESS Project 2011-2012 Request for Proposals (RFP). NOTE: Conference attendance is required of institutions seeking to respond to the 2011-2012 UNCFSP/NLM eHealth ACCESS RFP
4.An optional post-conference NLM Database Training Workshop – June 15th
5.An optional post-conference Hands-on Proposal Development Workshop – June 16th (open only to RFP respondents)
6.Opportunities for networking and collaboration to build and sustain eHealth capacity on HBCU campuses

Conference Site:
National Institutes of Health, Main Campus - National Library of Medicine
Lister Hill Auditorium, Building 38-A
8600 Rockville Pike
Bethesda, MD 20894

Conference Hotel:
DoubleTree
Hotel & Executive Meeting Center
8120 Wisconsin Avenue
Bethesda, MD 20814
Tel: 301-652-2000
Fax: 301-664-7317

Please be sure to indicate the 10th Annual Access Conference when making hotel reservations to receive the special rate. Rooms will be held at the Conference rate of $229.00 per night (plus tax) until May 13, 2011.

Registration:
Conference registration will be available after March 11, 2011. To register participants must: 1) Complete the Conference Registration Form and 2) Pay the registration fee: (early registration is $15.00 for students and $30.00 for all others). Post-Conference Workshops registration requires participants to complete the Hands-on Proposal Development Workshop Form and/or complete the NLM Online Database Training Workshop Form.

The deadline for early registration is May 13, 2011. Registration after May 13th and on site is $15.00 for students and $40.00 for all others. Registration fee includes conference program and materials, continental breakfast, lunch, and networking reception.

For questions please contact: Renee Burgess at renee.burgess@uncfsp.org or 703-205-6585

* Conference attendance is required of institutions seeking to respond to the 2011-2012 UNCFSP/NLM health information ACCESS RFP

Cynthia L. Henderson, MILS, AHIP
Executive Director
Louis Stokes Health Sciences Library
Howard University
501 W Street, NW
Washington, DC 20059
cynthia.henderson@howard.edu
202.884.1723 voice
202.884.1733 fax
http://hsl.howard.edu/

10th Annual UNCFSP/NLM HBCU ACCESS Conference June 13-15, 2011 "Celebrating 10 Years of Health Information ACCESS at HBCUs"