Community Building through Design, Facilitation, Assessment, and Faculty Training

August 18, 2011 - 6:40pm | by Chinkley
Presenter(s)
Rena Palloff (Fielding Graduate University, US)
Keith Pratt (Walden University, US)
Session Information
November 9, 2011 - 2:15pm
Session Type: 
Featured Session
Location: 
Asia 2
Session Duration: 
80 Minutes
Concurrent Session: 
4 & 5 (combined)
Virtual Session
Abstract

Rena Palloff and Keith Pratt have been studying the impact of community building in online learning since 1992 and have written 7 books on various aspects of online teaching and learning, the first of which, Building Learning Communities in Cyberspace, was published in 1999. Since that book was released, they have applied the foundational concepts of online learning communities to all aspects of online teaching. In this session, they will review their work by presenting community building as the foundation for course design, the facilitation of the course, assessment of student work, and most importantly, in training and developing faculty to effectively teach online. Participants will learn about their approach as well as acquire tips and tricks to embed this work in their own online teaching, course development, or faculty development work.

Lead Presenter
Keith Pratt and Rena Palloff Rena Palloff and Keith Pratt are the managing partners of Crossroads Consulting Group, working with academic institutions and business and professional organizations in the development and delivery of effective online education and training programs. Rena and Keith are program directors and faculty in the Teaching in the Virtual Classroom program at Fielding Graduate University, a graduate level academic certificate program that trains instructors to teach online.  They also teach online at several academic institutions, including Capella, Walden, and Wayland Baptist Universities.  They are the authors of the 1999 Frandson Award winning book Building Learning Communities in Cyberspace: Effective Strategies for the Online Classroom (Jossey-Bass, 1999), Lessons from the Cyberspace Classroom (Jossey-Bass, 2001), The Virtual Student (Jossey-Bass, 2003), Collaborating Online: Learning Together in Community (Jossey-Bass, 2005), and Assessing the Online Learner (2009). The second edition of Building Learning Communities in Cyberspace, now titled, Building Virtual Learning Communities was published in July 2007.  Their latest book, The Excellent Online Instructor, was published in early 2011. The books are comprehensive guides to the development of an online environment that helps promote successful learning outcomes while fostering collaboration and building a sense of community among the learners. Drs. Palloff and Pratt have been presenting this work across the United States and internationally since 1994.

 

Presenter 1 Email: 
rpalloff@fielding.edu