John Orlando, Ph.D.

Distance education units are particularly vulnerable to business disruptions. For one, their reliance on technology to deliver education makes it easier to lose connection with their students. We help you understand how an emergency would affect your unit’s operations, create a business continuity plan for your unit, and prepare your distance education unit to continue after an emergency.

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Document sharing software is a proven and effective way to facilitate group projects. With capabilities that allow for shared review, editing and other tasks, document sharing improves collaborative learning by making interaction more streamlined, efficient and convenient. It helps accelerate learning and makes group work more meaningful. Learn how to use free programs and setup group projects with this seminar.

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Save time and significantly improve student outcomes by using Voice Feedback. Research shows that students value and are far more likely to incorporate voice feedback in completing their assignments than written feedback. We explain the benefits of using voice feedback and walk you through the process of how to incorporate this approach into your teaching.

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A properly crafted question can engage students’ interest, foster ideas and contributions from other students, and in little time at all help transform what may have been an uninspired or “flat” classroom into a hotbed of learning in which the ideas and comments of one student are quickly built on by another.

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With the availability of VoiceThread, technology that allows educators to host secure conversations using media that include videos, images or presentations, students can now post comments within a lecture itself.  An expert in distance education program development, discusses how VoiceThread can add a whole new element of interaction to an online course.

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Many familiar forms of assessment don’t work well—or at all—in a web-based format. Assessing students online requires fresh thinking, new ideas, and a willingness to embrace the latest technologies and methods for measuring learning in an online course. This 48-page White Paper delivers updated assessment techniques tailored to the strengths of internet-based learning.

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At its core, VoiceThread is a tool for combining lecture with discussion in rich ways, using an interaction structure roughly similar to social media. We explore how VoiceThread brings an unprecedented level of student involvement and collaboration to online learning.

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We’ve arranged with some of higher education's leading authorities on the subject of learning improvement to discuss that they believe (and what research often shows) to be the best approaches. When it comes to improving student learning, what works best? Find out their insights in this special 4-pack series of 20 Minute Mentor presentations.

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It's not that difficult to move online, and there's an easy, practical, painless way to learn how. Or if you tried teaching online and the results weren't what you expected, here is a way to get you there. Online Courses: Step-by-Step is an online training program that introduces you to critical online teaching concepts. We give you the tools you need to get your classes online successfully.

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Education comprises a growing part of the Second Life universe. More and more universities are incorporating Second Life into coursework. Some even conduct classes online in the digital environment. We'll lead you through an introduction and exploration of the teaching potential of Second Life.

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Find out what the best web-based tools are for today’s classroom—and how you can integrate them into your courses—in Teaching with Technology, a four-module online course.

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