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Online Education Retention Strategies

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Retention Strategies 1 Mar 2012
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Retention Strategies 2 Oct 2012
Track: 
Administrative
Level: 
Level 2 - Intermediate
Sloan-C Certificate Program Eligibility: 

This online workshop can be counted toward the Sloan-C Certificate.

Workshop Description
Introduction: 

Formerly titled: Retention Strategies in Online Education

With record numbers of students studying online, it’s interesting to note that online student retention rates can be significantly lower than on-campus equivalents. It is imperative that academic institutions discover why online learners have a significantly lower rate of persistence than on-campus students and understand how to improve success rates.

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: 
  • Learn strategies for making retention an institution wide priority
  • Become versed in instructional design strategies for learning effectiveness and engagement
  • Identify support systems that enhance both student and faculty satisfaction
  • Use the perspectives of the Sloan-C Pillars to learn how institutions and individuals create cultures for student success
Outcomes: 

Develop a list of online retention practices for implementation at your institution

Facilitators
Facilitator(s): 

Ruth Bennett
Ruth Bennett is an educator and professional consultant. Her career highlights include teaching undergraduate courses online and in the classroom; teaching teachers how to teach online; working with high risk, inner city, elementary school children; designing and providing training and coaching in communication and the management of people for both profit and non-profit organizations; and designing and marketing continuing education. She currently teaches communication at Western Carolina University and a variety of courses online for the University of Phoenix and for UNC’s LearnNC program. Ruth has a BA and MA from Emerson College, a Communication Arts and Sciences college. Her publications include articles in professional journals in the United States and Canada, and privately published books in sales, customer service, and management.

Marie Fetzner
Marie is the Assistant to the Vice President, Educational Technology Services (ETS)/Operations/Damon City Campus Liaison at Monroe Community College (MCC) in Rochester, NY. Marie's responsibilities include budgeting, personnel and planning for the ETS division and she serves as the technology liaison to the downtown Damon City Campus (DCC). Marie is a founding member of the Monroe Model team that was created in 1997 to support MCC's online learning faculty and students. The coordinated the online facullty training efforts at MCC and for more than ten years has conducted research on online student retention. Marie has presented on online learning issues at numerous national, state, and regional conferences and has experience on various online Course Management Systems (CMS). Marie also served as Director of Online Information and Distance learning at Montgomery College, Montgomery County, Maryland in 2006-07 and for three years was MCC's Banner Information System project Manager.
Marie serves on the Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks(JALN) Advisory Panel for Access. She is a Certified Quality Matters™ Reviewer and serves as a reviewer for MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching).
Marie is an adjunct assistant professor in MCC's Transitional Studies department and in the Visual and Performing Arts department. She has developed online courses and has taught for more than a decade.
Marie is pursuing her doctorate in Education at the Margaret Warner Graduate School of Education and Human Development at the University of Rochester where her research focuses on online student retention. marie holds a Master of Public Administration (M.P.A.) degree from SUNY Brockport and earned a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Rochester's Eastman School of Music.

Pricing and Cancellation Policy

Price: $345 Each
Sloan-C Member price: $195 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/coupon code* (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: 
Retention Strategies 1 Mar 2012
Register now for session: 
Retention Strategies 2 Oct 2012
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