Training and Professional Development

  • 4/20 Facilitating Your Online Course Workshop

    Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning

     

    Lunchtime Seminar

    Providing an opportunity for faculty, graduate students, and professional staff to gather with colleagues to listen, discuss, comment, interact and reflect on a variety of topics to enhance teaching and learning.

    The Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning offers the following workshop:

    Facilitating Your Online Course
    Cathy Healy & David Morrow, CETL-eCampus

    Target Audience:
    Faculty who will be teaching online in near future and have an online course created.

    Description:
    Are you looking for new ideas to help improve the facilitation of your online course?  Join your colleagues to discuss the different roles in each phase of online facilitation.  Whether you have taught online before or are preparing to teach online for the first time, you will walk away with practical tools and ideas for improving the implementation of your course.

    Objectives:

    1. Assess your online implementation concerns.

    2. Discuss the importance of strengthening and maintaining a community of inquiry during implementation.

    3. Identify the four major roles of an online facilitator.

    4.  Discuss the shifting roles and best practices of an online facilitator during the four key time intervals of an online course.

    5. Locate and use implementation tools and resources to best meet your personal style and needs.

    Wednesday, April 20th
    11:15-1:10pm
    ROWE Center, room 318

    A boxed lunch will be provided.  If you have special dietary needs (vegetarian, gluten free, or both) please e-mail Stacey Valliere.  Requests made within 7 days of seminar will not be honored.

    Registration is required.

    To register and view more workshops, please visit http://cetl.uconn.edu/seminars/.

    For more information, contact: Stacey Valliere at stacey.valliere@uconn.edu