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Summer: Apply for the Online Course Redesign Institute

This summer, why not join your colleagues to learn about the latest and best practices for teaching online? We’ll practice by applying those ideas to one of your online (or hybrid) courses, under the coaching tutelege of Molly and Andy. Receive a $200 stipend too?! The format involves:

short sessions on current best practices for online teaching and course design,
demonstrations of sample innovative approaches and tech tool options,
working lab sessions where participants will work with their own course materials in their new Canvas course shell or alternative LMS,
questions, sharing and collaboration between participants,
a light lunch

Attendance is limited to 7 participants during each week of June 18-22 or August 6-10. Apply for your spot by March 30, submitting your application to tlc@bhc.edu or your dean.

Learning outcomes for the Online Course Redesign Institute:

Explore best practices and online learning research as they impact course learning outcomes.
Identify one’s own course components that can be redesigned with effective online pedagogy and
site design principles in mind.
Incorporate best practices and effective online teaching principles into an existing online
course in ways that maximize student engagement and streamline faculty workload, tailoring decisions to fit the course learning outcomes.
Develop site design skills through practice with Canvas, BHC’s new Learning Management System (or other LMS if the faculty member utilizes an LMS provided by the publisher or other choice
Create a new course map, syllabus, module template, and at least 2 lessons for the selected course.

Using Twitter Yet for Your Own Learning?

If you have taken the plunge to follow leaders in your field through Twitter as one way you are keeping up, consider sharing your Twitter feed with your students. Did you know you can embed the scrolling feed of tweets so that it is visible on your course web site? See http://www.twitter.com/about/resources/widgets for more information.

Ted Talks: Using High-quality Video Clips

Have you heard of Ted Talks? Ted Talks is a web site that houses thousands of high-quality, credible video presentations, most of which are licensed by Creative Commons for free use in educational settings. You can search by topic, by theme, by discipline, or by length of videos. There are some ads, but they are not of the pop-up variety, so relatively inconspicuous. That means, you can show them in class, followed by discussions. You can have the students view them outside of class and write 2-paragraph commentaries answering such questions as:

What are the main ideas covered?
Which points did you find informative as they relats to the case we discussed in class on Tues?
Evaluate the speaker.

Or alternatively, perhaps link to 10 videos on a common theme for a “virtual conference within your class.” Have the students select 5 to watch from your list. Then, write a 1-2 page relfection paper or post to a class blog or discussion board identifying and discussing common themes across the 5 watched videos. What did they learn? See the web site for additional samples and requirements. www.tedtalks.com

East Campus Brown Bag

Be the first to see the new online TLC Copyright Diagnostic Tool and learn more about copyright as it applies to course materials you use in your courses! Created by Charlet Key, Molly Baker and Joshua Ballard April 12, 2011, 12:30PM, B-203

Online Learning examples

Saw this reference today to lots of learner-content interactivity examples for online or hybrid courses. If you’re looking for inspiration as you update your courses, you might find some here! http://blog.cathy-moore.com/elearning-samples/ I ran across this link in LearningSolutions magazine, which often as great examples and ideas for elearning/online learning.

Internet Radio show postponed

Today’s internet radio show has been postponed due to technical difficulties. Please watch your emails for a rescheduled date later this month. Sorry for the inconvenience.