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Online Effectiveness: Making Your Case
Perceptions have a real-life impact on your programs. Every distance educator must be prepared to fight and win the battle of perceptions. With your prospective students. With the potential employers of your graduates. And with your own academic colleagues and administration.
Improving Financial Management in Academic Programs
Today financial sustainability is a team effort, and only the schools who understand the new paradigm will succeed. Learn how to measure the financial sustainability of classes, programs and schools, and then use that information to reallocate resources and improve your decision making.
Interactive Training Scenarios for Resident Advisors
If there’s one thing you hope for all your new RAs, it’s that they won’t endure a “deer in the headlights” moment … a situation that leaves them frozen from fear, without a strategy for dealing with the moment. They’re the first line of defense in the event of a crisis on their floor, and you want them to know how to respond.
Classroom Management 102: Working with Difficult Students
Do the faculty members at your school know how to respond effectively when confronted by uncooperative–or even aggressive–students? Find out how to successfully manage the full-range of student behavior problems.
Setting Distance Ed Expectations in Faculty Contracts
If your faculty contracts and negotiated agreements do not yet include language covering distance education expectations, here is your opportunity to correct this oversight. To provide clarity for all parties, institutions need to incorporate distance education-specific terms in their collective bargaining agreements and in their institutional policies. In this seminar, you'll learn how to review existing contracts and policies against a detailed checklist and make recommended improvements. This workshop will explain how to avoid misunderstandings, faculty disputes, and hard feelings and ensure that all major distance education issues are covered.
Online Group Work: Making It Meaningful and Manageable
With the increasing popularity of online courses, instructors need to have clear, effective methods of creating, implementing, and grading group projects. Change the perception and the results with this seminar.
Virtual Worlds, Simulations, and Games for Online Educators
Educational simulations, serious games, and virtual worlds are among the most innovative formats now available to higher education innovators. Inherently fascinating, these online platforms can bring realistic and engaging learning opportunities to online courses. Get the foundational knowledge you need before selecting or implementing these online platforms in distance education programming at your school.
Aligning Values with Resources & Assessment Results
When economic times are tough, every dollar your school spends must yield value. Unfortunately, most organizations don’t incorporate their own values into the decision-making process. Time and time again, schools and universities fail to take this critical step when they’re allocating their resources. In this audio seminar, you can learn how to develop a “values-based framework” for your key decisions.
What to Teach When There Isn't Time to Teach Everything
Faculty members have always faced time constraints when planning their courses, but the information age is now making it even harder to decide what to cover in a semester. Get advice on what to include, and what you can safely disregard, as you write their syllabi and plan your busy semesters.
Accommodating Students with Disabilities in Online Courses
As online courses increase in popularity and diversity, meeting the needs of disabled students is an emerging issue. To ensure online offerings are ready to serve this growing population, designers and faculty must understand assistive technologies and ensure that course design is in line with proven standards.
Enrolling Undocumented Students: Legal and Policy Implications
Enrolling undocumented students presents unique challenges to colleges and universities. Their status has far-reaching implications for admissions, financial aid, and student conduct policies. Over a dozen states have enacted statutes to address these students, with some according enrollment, others restricting it. Federal and state courts have already begun hearing cases on the matter, and comprehensive immigration reform looms over the entire nation.
7 Keys to Becoming an Effective Distance Learning Leader
As a distance learning professional, you may sometimes find yourself so absorbed in doing the thing right, you don’t have the time to think about doing the right thing. In other words, you’re so busy managing, you don’t have time to lead. This program will help you get beyond the day-to-day routine. It will show you how to look beyond your daily calendar to a strategic plan, and replace your short-term focus with a vision you can implement and achieve.
Teaching Online vs. F2F: 15 Differences That Affect Learning
Online instruction will continue to grow rapidly on college campuses nationwide. This seminar offers thought-provoking insights on the best ways to structure online courses to promote deeper levels of student understanding.
A Legal Primer for Online Instructors
College professors know their course material and how to deliver online instruction. What most faculty members don’t understand, however, are the legal risks involved with teaching these distance education classes. Find out how to avoid the biggest legal mistakes and ways to safeguard your institution’s distance education offerings.
Academic Restructuring: Guidelines For Academic Leaders
Restructuring in every form, is hitting institutions all over the country. Smooth transitions are achievable when using proven, well-defined steps. In this seminar our presenter reveals a practical planning process focused on success as well as minimizing conflict, attrition, and developing positive new cultures.
Grounding Recruitment & Retention Plans in a Multicultural Model
As demographics in the United States shift, higher education institutions must remain engaged in educating the future leaders of our country. This means recruiting, retaining, and graduating more students of color. If you haven’t reviewed your admissions policies lately, now is a great time to revise them from the perspective of broadening your awareness of multicultural issues.
Building Service-Learning Programs: 10 Essentials
Dr. Jacoby knows firsthand about the joys and pitfalls of implementing a service-learning program. One of the nation’s most respected leaders in service-learning programs, she implemented the University of Maryland’s initial program in 1992. And that was long before service-learning was deemed one of the most effective practices for enhancing student learning by the Association of American Colleges and Universities and others.
Teaching & Learning Rhythms: Tools to Enhance Student Engagement
Ideally, leadership is handed back and forth in the classroom, in a delicate balancing act. This seminar will help you learn how to capture that elusive flow when teaching seems effortless and students are excited and eagerly involved in learning.
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