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Getting Started: The First Steps in Online Teaching

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Track: 
Design and Delivery
Level: 
Level 1 - Beginner
Workshop Description
Introduction: 

Formerly titled: Getting Started: The First Step Towards Online Learning

This course introduces potential faculty and/or administrators to online education fundamentals and is a prerequisite to both the Online Teaching Certificate and the Blended Teaching Certificate programs. Not only will you discuss the concepts but you’ll use the technologies to gain practical "hands-on" experience.


Resources Provided: 
  • Presentations, readings, web links, discussion threads and other materials, viewable online for 1 year
  • 1-Hour Live Workshop Orientation - Learn about Moodle 2.2 and BlackBoard Collaborate. Navigate the workshop space
  • 1-Hour Live Panel Discussion - Participation in Live Q&A
  • Viewing of Live Sessions available for 1 year
Learning Objectives: 
  • Compare face-to-face and online teaching, including expectations, role adjustments, and course design
  • Apply the principles of effective participation through chat and discussion
  • Use synchronous and asynchronous technologies
  • Prepare for managing online classes, workload and resources
Outcomes: 

Creation of a syllabus for your online course.

Facilitators
Facilitator(s): 

Sandra Coswatte
Sandra Coswatte has worked with the Sloan Consortium as a consultant since 2008. She works as an events producer for workshops and webinars. In addition, she also works on Sloan-C social networking. Outside of Sloan-C, Sandra serves as Adjunct Faculty at the University of Phoenix and South University. She has been teaching online and in person at the Boston and Pittsburgh campuses with the University of Phoenix and Axia College since 2003. Sandra has also taught for 3 years at West Virginia University in the Freshman Year Experience program. Sandra has a B.A. in psychology and a M.S. in Community Agency Counseling from California University of PA as well as a M.A. in Higher Education Leadership and Administration from West Virginia University.

Cathy Arreguin
Cathy is a trained instructional designer and educational technologist with 4+ years of Second Life educational experience. She lives, works and collaborates at a distance from my home in the Sierra foothills of Central California. With many years in both K12 and non-profit work, developing curriculum, training and educational media for both children and adults, she now divides her time developing instructions and in supporting educators in the uses of educational technologies for both K12 and higher education.  Her specialties include distance and online education, social media, virtual worlds and professional development.

Pricing and Cancellation Policy

Price: $495 Each
Sloan-C Member price: $345 w/coupon code* (you will enter the coupon code on the payment page of your shopping cart process)
College Pass Member Pricing: No Cost w/2 coupon codes* (you will enter the coupon code on the payment page of your shopping cart process)
*Members receive unlimited discounts with membership and College Pass holders receive 100 (50 or 25) "free" seats in the entire Sloan-C Workshop series.

Cancellation Policy: 

If you register and pay for a Sloan-C workshop and are unable to attend or if Sloan-C reschedules/cancels a workshop, we will be happy to apply your payment to another Sloan-C workshop/seminar at your request. However, no refunds will be given. This offer is good for one year.

Technical Requirements/Minimum System Requirements

Combining the capabilities of industry leaders Wimba and Elluminate, Blackboard Collaborate provides a comprehensive learning platform designed specifically for education. It is helping thousands of higher education, K-12, professional, corporate, and government organizations worldwide deliver a more effective learning experience through online, blended, and mobile learning.

System Requirements:

  • Click here to check the system requirements and support browsers for using Elluminate
  • Click here to find out if your computer has the right Operating System and Java version installed to run Elluminate and to configure your system.

     
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Moodle: Sloan-C uses an open-source LMS called Moodle for the asynchronous component of workshops. Moodle provides a flexible and user-friendly set of asynchronous collaboration and learning tools. As with most open-source technologies, the Moodle software is free, making it a very cost-effective software package for any institution or company, without sacrificing quality. Moodle is a robust environment that is dynamic, interactive, and provides cross-platform learner access through a standard web browser.

System Requirements

Moodle will work in any modern web browser, however, moodle works best in a range of specific browser types (see below). Your browser should also have both cookies and javascript enabled. These are typically enabled by default, but if you think these settings might need enabling, check the documentation for your particular browser for how to do these.

To make best use of what moodle has to offer, it is recommended that users choose a browser that supports moodle's in-line HTML editor. This is a WYSIWYG (what-you-see-is-what-you-get) editor with an interface much like you would see in most word processing packages.

This in-line HTML editor will only appear if you use one of a specific range of browser types that knows how to start the editor. If you do not use one of these browser types, you can still use moodle just fine, but without the luxury of a WYSIWYG editor. Luckily, there is a supported browser that will work on all major operating system types. The list of supported and not supported browsers is shown below:

Browsers that support the HTML editor Browsers that do not support the HTML editor
Recent versions of: 

Internet Explorer (v5.5 or later) 
Firefox (all versions) 
Mozilla (v1.7 or later) 
SeaMonkey (all versions) 
Netscape (v7 or later) 		 Any versions of: 

Opera 
Safari 
Camino 

 
Register now for session: 
And So It Began: Getting Started in Online Teaching - 2: May 2012
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And So It Began: Getting Started in Online Teaching - 3: June 2012
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And So It Began: Getting Started in Online Teaching - 4: Aug 2012
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And So It Began: Getting Started in Online Teaching - 5: Oct 2012
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And So It Began: Getting Started in Online Teaching - 6: Nov 2012
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