Presenter: Dr. Joel Hartman, University of Central Florida Dr. Hartman was our opening keynote speaker for the recent Teaching and Learning Technology Conference at Missouri S&T. Now he is the plenary speaker for the SLOAN-C Blended Learning Conference & Workshop in Oak Brook, IL, just outside of Chicago. Blended learning has been going on for […]
Read More »Lead Presenter: Tova Duby; Babson College Babson is a small private college in Wellsley, MA. Babson has been working on blended learning for the past 10 years. Babson offered its firts blended course back in 2001. Faculty would not have stood a fully online course, so a blended course was the best compromise. Especially at […]
Read More »UPDATE: Quality Matters was one of several presentations at this webinar series provided courtesy of Sloan-C. Although Quality Matters has worked with Sloan-C in the past, it is a separate organization and not actually a part of Sloan-C. Quality Matters has asked us to clarify this point. Now back to the regularly scheduled post about […]
Read More »Presenters: Matthew Russell & Gerald Bergtrom; University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee This is a clicker-enabled presentation using an older generation of TurningPoint’s clickers. Matt has a Ph.D. in comparative literature and Gerry is a professor of Biology at UWM. Collaborative learning (CL) is about students working together, whether on the content of the course on reflecting on […]
Read More »Presenter: Ike Shibley; Pennsylvania State University Dr. Shibley (and Penn State) uses class guides in his blended courses to add a level of additional organization to how each of the classes is run. A class guide is a simple document that describes how the content in a blended course is organized. Students are expected to […]
Read More »I will be “liveblogging” the first meeting of our CyberEd participants. Meg Brady and Angie Hammons are the primary facilitators for this course, which is an opportunity for faculty interested in online/blended learning to get their feet wet. I play primarily a support role and will be working with instructors while they design their online/blended […]
Read More »I found the following video online and it made me think a little bit on how content can be delivered to support online learning. (hat tip: American Digest) Sean Carroll is a theoretical research physicist at Caltech. The format he uses here could easily be adapted to different courses on our campus. I am not […]
Read More »The fourth and last session for the day is “Effective Teaching–Tips from Award Winning Faculty”. This is a panel of instructors — Carrie Ellis-Kalton of Maryville University, Laura Pawlow of Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville, Bill Mayhan & James Henry from UMSL, and Peggy Cohen, also from UMSL who will be moderating the panel. It should be […]
Read More »The third presentation of the morning is “Teaching Blended Courses: Ensuring Success by Avoiding Pitfalls”, presented by Barbara Petzall of Maryville University. According to the program blurb, this session will identify problem areas that instructors may encounter when designing blended classes.
Read More »My second session for the morning is No-Doze PowerPoint–Tips and Tricks, presented by Andrea Compton of St. Charles Community College. I guess the idea is to provide ideas on how to make PowerPoint presentations more interesting through interactivity and storytelling. Dr. Klaus Woelk at Missouri S&T is pretty good about this. He likes to introduce […]
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