5/6/2014

2pm

 4/30

11am 

4/29/2014

4pm-5pm

5/2/2014

12 - 1:30pm

From Podium To Podcast: How To Flip Your Classroom & Enhance Student Engagement

Are you interested in flipping your classroom but not sure where to begin? Are you curious about this trend and how it can be applied to your college classroom? This webinar will take a close look at what happens when the traditional method of lecturing and assigning homework is reversed; when students receive lectures through video outside of class and use class time to complete homework, solve problems, and collaborate with the instructor and other students.

In this webinar we will prove that flipping college courses is an excellent way to address some of the major concerns in today’s institutions of higher learning. A flipped course can enhance student engagement by maximizing time for problem solving and student-student/student-teacher interaction. In addition, providing opportunities for off-campus content delivery can address the attendance and scheduling issues experienced by many adult learners. Participants will gain practical suggestions, effective strategies, and a checklist of helpful items to use in developing a flipped format.

http://www.innovativeeducators.org/product_p/2148.htm

4/28/2014

12pm-1:30pm

4/24/2014

1pm - 1:45

"Instructor Training for LockDown Browser & Respondus Monitor: Prevent Cheating During Exams"

This comprehensive training webinar is intended for instructors who plan to use LockDown Browser and/or Respondus Monitor with online exams. The session is 45 minutes, plus a Q&A period at the end.

http://www.respondus.com/products/webinar/

4/24/2014

12pm - 1pm

4/23/2014

2pm-3:30pm

Moving A Classroom-Based Course To Online Or Hybrid

The Flipped Approach to Online Teaching and Learning

Flipping a classroom is a pedagogical approach that enables instructors to create student-centered learning environments by changing when and how certain activities happen.
However, most of the conversations have only focused on the face-to-face classroom experience where students participate in activities during class time and watch videos outside of class time.

But what if you teach in an online environment without traditional "class time"? Can you still integrate flipped strategies?
In The Flipped Approach to Online Teaching and Learning you will analyze current definitions and models for the flipped class and explore how to expand and adapt these definitions to include online learning environments.

You can experience a flipped lesson for yourself and learn how to immediately apply successful flipping concepts and strategies to the courses you’re teaching right now in The Flipped Approach to Online Teaching and Learning

http://www.magnapubs.com/catalog/the...-and-learning/

4/17/2014

12pm- 1pm

Creating Interactive Videos from Really Boring Talking Heads, Lectures and Demo Videos

Most videos in training and elearning are talking heads, lecture-type presentations or demonstration of a product or process. However, they are oftentimes, boring and fail to engage learners and teach the content.

In this webinar, Dr. Ray Jimenez will discuss these topics:

• What do you do with really boring lecture and demo type videos ?  How do you make them engaging?
• What do you look for in a video and how do you find opportunities to add interactions?

• What are the steps to augment your videos with interactions like discovery exercises, games, test exercises and activities to improve retention and recall?

• If you are to start from scratch, how do you plan to create a new video and make sure they are provided interactive components?

• How do you cut costs, increase the speed and increase the quality of your videos?
  
   

4/15/2014

1pm -2pm

Formative Assessments: A Performance Check-Up

Research spanning four decades has proven formative assessment to be a powerful ally for improving student performance and differentiating instruction. Gathering, interpreting, and acting on insights about student performance plays a critical role in tracking successful and unsuccessful patterns in teaching and learning.

Join our expert panel for this timely discussion that will answer five key questions about formative assessments:

• How do I effectively integrate formative assessment into my classroom?
• How can formative assessment support the curriculum?
• How can formative assessment be used as a teaching strategy?
• What types of formative assessment are most effective for assessing student understanding and nurturing retention?
• How do I differentiate instruction in response to formative assessment findings?
  
  http://www.eschoolnews.com/2014/03/1...ormance-check/

4/15/2014

2PM

Six Ways to Use Comics and Animations in your Desire2Learn Courses

Presenters Audrey Williams and Barry Dahl will demonstrate six different examples of how you can utilize comics and animations within various tools in the Desire2Learn Learning Environment. From a simple "just for fun" News item to a serious Dropbox assignment, you'll begin to explore the possibilities of increasing student engagement and enhancing instructor presence. All resources will be shared with attendees, including simple how-to guides for your future reference.

4/11/2014

1pm - 2pm

FridayLive! 

4/10/2014

12pm - 12:30

Grade Anything

Traditionally, English instructors have used Turnitin to evaluate papers and essays for plagiarism, grammar/mechanics and other writing skills. Now, with Grade Anything, Turnitin has opened up the door for instructors in other disciplines to provide feedback and evaluate other assignment types--not just papers. Coupled with the movement toward using technology in the classrooms, Turnitin is quickly becoming the grading platform of choice for many schools where instructors can now use any one of Turnitin's rich feedback tools to evaluate student learning.

Join our panelists, Rebecca Hewett and Marc Helgeson, in discussing how they've been using Turnitin to evaluate PowerPoint® presentations, visual images, plays and other performances.

4/8/2014

1pm - 2pm

Leverage Social Media to Fuel Student Engagement & Learning

You already know that social media platforms are powerful tools that entertain us, connect us, and keep us organized. Did you know they can also help us teach?
It’s true. Social media has a real place in the classroom—not just in the hallways, residence halls, and quads around campus.
Students can and should learn how to employ social media platforms as professional tools and not simply as pastimes.
Incorporating social media into your courses can forge stronger connections with your students, foster mastery of course content, and develop social media skills that will help graduates transition into the workplace. Of course, anyone who has used social media knows that it can be a black hole, sucking time and delivering little of value.
The key is to use social media strategically and intelligently, and you can learn how to do that in Leverage Social Media to Fuel Student Engagement & Learning.

http://www.magnapubs.com/catalog/lev...-and-learning/

 4/4/2014

11am -11:45am 

 "Instructor Training for LockDown Browser & Respondus Monitor: Prevent Cheating During Exams" 

This comprehensive training webinar is intended for instructors who plan to use LockDown Browser and/or Respondus Monitor with online exams. The session is 45 minutes, plus a Q&A period at the end.

http://www.respondus.com/products/webinar/

4/3/2014

1pm - 2pm

Trends in online learning

Based on research with hundreds of institutions, this webinar will explore the how use of collaboration tools, mobility, and analytics will be dramatically changed by shifts in student demands and the fight to attract and retain students. Join this session, led by a panel of academic technologists to learn how leading schools are thinking about online learning in the future and what you should be thinking about as part of your long term strategy.

4/1/2014

1pm- 2pm

Mobile Technologies can Make Learning Engaging and FUN!

Studies show that instructors can create more interactive lessons with mobile technologies. Mobile tools can help instructors be more organized, encourage students to be more self-directed, and enhance an instructor’s ability to implement quality, engaging, digital content into online classes.

Jeannine Burgess from Palm Beach State College will share concrete strategies for implementing m-Learning activities. She will provide links to mobile apps and share examples of interactive activities, with their success rates in various disciplines. For example, she will demonstrate how students can use mobile technologies to present a topic, capture a moment, or share an idea. Attend this session to learn how to effectively integrate technology to help students learn, and implement engaging activities to make Learning FUN!

http://www.itcnetwork.org/webinars.html

3/4/2014

1pm-2pm

eschool

News

3/28/2014

12pm-1:30

3/25/2014

2-3pm

3/25/2014

11am-12pm

3/19/2014

2pm-3pm

Respondus 4.0: Create & Manage Exam Content

Learn how to save time by creating and managing your online exams with Respondus 4, including importing test questions from Word files, using official publisher test banks, and more. The session is 45 minutes, plus a Q&A period at the end.

3/19/2014

2pm -3:30pm

Multiple Choice Tests & Bloom’s Taxonomy: How To Assess Different Levels Of Learning

Do you use multiple choice tests in your courses? If so, how do they stack up in terms of effectiveness? Multiple choice tests are probably the most common form of assessment used in colleges and universities, but often times they barely scrape the surface of students’ understanding, only measuring memorization skills. If written effectively however, multiple-choice tests can successfully assess higher order thinking skills.

In this webinar, participants will learn how to evaluate appropriate uses of multiple choice tests and determine when they are most effective. They will also be presented with the best guidelines for developing multiple choice items, as well as how to develop exams that evaluate learning beyond simply recalling facts.

3/19/2014

12pm-1:30pm

Personalizing Online Learning: Tools & Strategies To Increase Engagement & Success

Research finds that students who report feeling a personal connection with their instructor also indicate higher levels of engagement. As highlighted by Bates and Poole (2003), “Teaching is the creation of opportunities that facilitate learning… learning is essentially a social process, requiring communication among learner, teacher, and others. This social process cannot effectively be replaced by technology, but technology may facilitate and even enhance it.”

This presentation will examine unique considerations of student engagement in the online classroom, introduce practical strategies to enhance online student course engagement via personalizing the learning experience, and explore multimedia tools that can be integrated to foster a personalized connection.

3/18/2014

2pm - 3:30pm

Teaching Critical Thinking For Academic Success, Career Readiness & Personal Development

This workshop provides practical information you can use immediately on how to teach critical thinking for academic success, career readiness, and personal development with understandable, approachable, and applicable classroom strategies. Participants will learn how to apply an effectively simple model for critical thinking and recognizing cognitive biases and traps. While the emphasis will be on classroom strategies to promote these skills, this webinar will also raise issues that will help student services professionals (advisors, career counselors) assist students as they consider their course of study and choice of major.

3/18/2014

12pm-1:30pm

Innovative Strategies To Prevent Cheating & Enhance Learning In The Classroom

This webinar will briefly review the reasons behind the problem of cheating and offer practical information and tips to enhance learning, encourage honesty, and prevent negative behaviors. Beginning with how to create a respectful learning environment, Dr. Francis will present information that is being used across the country to benefit students and help instructors monitor progress and preserve the integrity of the course across different learning platforms.

Study Results: The Effectiveness of Turnitin in Higher Education

3/12/2014

12pm- 1:30pm

The Horizon Report in Action: Emerging Technologies Today and Tomorrow

3/5/2014

12pm-12:30pm

Getting to the (Power)Point:  Addressing Plagiarism in Student Presentations

What are some best practices for using student presentation assignments to help build their media and digital literacy skills? In this webcast, the presenters will share strategies for working to enhance student understanding of proper citation and attribution when using media in presentations and projects.

3/3/2014

3pm-4pm

Survival Guide to Teaching Online: Structuring Your Online Course to Motivate Today’s Student

2/28/2014

12pm-1:30pm

Critical Thinking In The Online Classroom: Instructional Strategies That Work

This webinar will highlight the role of interactivity in fostering students’ critical thinking. Participants will receive an overview of instructional strategies that prompt critical analysis, synthesis, and applied integration. Through our discussion, instructors will learn empirically based strategies for enhancing critical thinking and techniques for transferring instructional techniques to the virtual classroom. They will also be provided with practical suggestions for the innovative use of critical thinking strategies in online courses. 

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Ghostbusting: Getting the Ghostwriter Out of Your Class

2/26/2014

1pm-2pm

StudyMate Instructor Training: Creating Learning Activities

2/20/2014

1pm-2pm

LockDown Browser & Respondus Monitor Instructor Training

2/20/2014

11am-12pm

Flipped Classrooms and Slam Dunks - Bring your A-game!

Join Renaldo on February 20 at 9 a.m. PST for this live webinar presented by Adobe to learn all about Flipped Classrooms, Student Assessment Technologies and Learner Intervention and Collaboration - all done without programming in a few clicks. Learn how to easily create interactive classroom content and create videos of your lessons in a jiffy -- all from your desktop -- which you can publish to popular video sharing sites like YouTube in a single click. Don't just stop there. Also see how you can track these videos, test your students and identify those students -- early in your course -- who need special attention and focus, and bring them up to speed with the rest of the class. 

2/19/2014

12 pm -1pm

Geographies of Learning: How Students Navigate, Use and Learn from Digital Resources

The presenters will report key findings from a large-scale study of students’ use of digital resource sponsored by the National Science Foundation. The students were surveyed about learning preferences and differences between their information-seeking habits in academic situations versus those related to personal interest. The research found students' approaches to information seeking are dependent on context and that their information-seeking behaviors are shaped by different factors. We used these factors to develop profiles of personas of students that describe four distinct types of students based on their approaches to learning and information seeking.

2/13/2014

12pm-1pm

Literacy is Fundamental:Leveraging Critical Reading to Improve Student Writing

How has the immediacy, ready access to, and wealth of information online impacted student literacy? And, how do we work to engage students in approaching information—and reading—in a way that helps to enhance their writing skills?

In this webcast, we will share strategies for engaging students in reading critically towards improving their research skills and ultimately their ability to think and write critically.

2/6/2014

12:30 -1:15 pm

Learning Analytics - Potential and Principles

2/5/2014

1 -2 pm

Blended Learning: Transforming Higher Education for the 21st Century

Instruction Matters: Purdue Academic Course Transformation (IMPACT) is a successful campus-wide course redesign and faculty development program at Purdue University, a large R1 research university in Indiana. Sponsored by the office of the Provost, it is supported by staff and resources from multiple units across campus, including the Libraries, the Center for Instructional Excellence (CIE), Instructional Technologies at Purdue (ITaP), and Purdue Distance Education (PEC). At the end of 2013, after a 4-year implementation, IMPACT will have helped faculty transform over 90 large foundational courses from all colleges/schools across campus – in the process, working closely with over 100 faculty to do so.

1/28/2014

1 -2 pm

Competency-Based Degree Programs and Online Education

The purpose of this webinar is to examine how online competency-based degree programs are beginning to impact traditional online programs and to share strategies for preparing for these impacts.

1/28/2014

12 -1 pm

What Does the Future Hold for Instructional Designer/Technologist Roles?

1/24/2014

1pm -2pm

FridayLive! There's an APP for that! 5.0

1/21/2014

1pm -2pm

Crafting an Effective MOOC: One Community College's Experice

Pat James Hanz of Mt. San Jacinto College will provide an overview of their experience in developing and offering their first course.  We also asked her to provide some lessons learned in case your instituion is interested in joining the fun.

1/14/2014

1pm -2pm

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