Learn ways to customize Moodle to maximize faculty’s interaction with students and minimize the time they spend learning and navigating the system. This webinar will present a case study of Berklee College of Music’s unique approach to assessing and customizing Moodle 1.9 through close collaboration with faculty. The webinar will demonstrate simple modifications, such as renaming interface elements to make them more intuitive, and more complex ones, such as developing a customized grading page that allows faculty to review, provide feedback, and grade all student submissions from a single page.

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Teaching science courses, including a “hands-on” laboratory component, fully online is a reality and you do not have to reinvent the wheel! Dr. Jim Brown, professor of microbiology at Ocean County College in New Jersey demonstrates how he converted from a campus-based, face-to-face course to online delivery.

He presents overcoming challenges, structuring a syllabus, communication methods, student interaction and feedback, methods for performing lab experiments, and other best practices. Dr. Brown reviews how students use a commercially produced lab kit called a LabPaq that mirrors traditional campus labs to perform lab activities independently, usually at home. He offers learning results and metrics based on launching a successful online nursing program and teaching microbiology online. Science educators benefit from details on how lab sciences courses can be delivered online with students receiving transferable lab credit. Institution administrators gain insight on how to expand enrollments and revenue while students benefit from convenience and flexibility – a win-win for all. Audience: Lab Science Faculty and Department Chairs, Administrators and Distance Learning staff

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This webinar will provide an overview of the new Sloan-C workshop on Building Web-based Social Networks (commencing Sept 19). The workshop provides a clear understanding of how to create and scale online social networking sites in simple and logical ways.  Starting with creation methods, learning the tools, and acquiring the ability to implement real solutions (Drupal Gardens, Druapl Commons, virtual worlds) this workshop will you a clear sense of how to create social networking sites for your educational venue.   At the end of this mini-course you will have implemented your own social networking course for education.

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Today's online course design can be challenging, especially when creating your online content for music students. How the content is presented and organized is just as important as the content itself.Learn important design strategies to apply to your online music courses from established research in organizational course design.

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