Posts Tagged ‘instructional technology’

NCLDA Presentation – Taking Your Talents Online: Are you ready to teaching Online?

I will be making two presentations at The North Carolina Distance Learning Association’s 2011 Virtual Conference: Engaging Online Learners. The first will be looking at three models for online courses and course redesigns.  For those that arent able to attend virtually, below is the abstract and PowerPoint slides. Abstract This presentation will be for anyone that is interested [...]

Should Your Course be Online?

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In direct response to the changing economic climate, higher education has turned to online courses as a solution to meet the increasing demand. Some motivations are financial – they hope to be able to teach more students with fewer instructors – while others are motivated by a lack of resources and are struggling to meet the demands of the student population. Regardless, the success of developing online courses is not a decision to be taken lightly and requires careful planning and organization. Working through each of these steps will dramatically improve the success for your online course development.

Taking Our Toys to a New Sandbox

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The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is the most recent institution added to the growing list of colleges and universities that are abandoning Blackboard to move to the Sakai Learning Management System (LMS). This change comes after a highly successful pilot at UNC that started in the fall of 2008. The decision to move to Sakai is greater than just a change in a learning management system; it also is a major indicator of the direction of instructional technology in higher education as a whole.

Creating a Classroom Partnership

Creating a Classroom Partnership As students are exposed to technology at a younger age, they not only demand but also expect that technology will be used in the classroom setting. No longer can instructors stand at the front of the room and just deliver content – students are too smart for that – they demand [...]

Using Sakai and Elluminate for an Online Course

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With the right tools, online courses can be as effective as traditional face-to-face courses. I designed an online course that would teach instructors how to integrate multimedia into their own – virtual or traditional – courses.

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