October 10, 2008

Online teaching and learning conference





This past week, Kathy and I logged in to the Online Teaching and Learning conference sponsored by Jossey-Bass.

http://www.onlineteachingandlearning.com/program.html#

The sessions focused on the publisher's series on online teaching and learning, with many of their authors as the session presenters along with some special guests. There were two full days of presentations, each one lasting about an hour. The topics presented on include:

  • collaborating in the online class
  • online assessment
  • motivating adult learners
  • synchronous teaching and learning
  • critical thinking for online environments
  • digital libraries
  • teaching and learning in virtual worlds
  • online course design

The sessions and many of the books they are based on are very applied with lots of practical advice, guidelines, and samples. The sessions themselves were delivered in Adobe's Meeting Place and were highly interactive (a little too much so with up to 400 participants per session all chiming in at once).

The sessions are all recorded and as registrants we have access to them, so if you are interested in exploring any of the above topics, let me know and maybe we can set something up.

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