Capturing Teachable Moments Online

The teachable moment: That fleeting opportunity to forge a real connection with a student.

Sometimes the moment is inspired by a flicker of intrinsic interest in a particular topic, sometimes by an authentic and immediate need.

Capturing and capitalizing on these teachable moments is at the core of any successful course.

But what about online courses, especially those taught asynchronously?

When your students are accessing your course materials individually via a website, studying at their convenience, are teachable moments still attainable?

The answer is, emphatically, yes!

Information services expert Eric Frierson help you learn how to identify when teachable moments happen and how to design or retrofit online courses to make the most of them.

Frierson brings together new and old technology to help you anticipate student questions and interests and reveal techniques for creating more engaging, more instinctively responsive course sites.

In this 75-minute seminar, you’ll learn how to:

• Define “teachable moments” and explain why they are important in physical and online classes.
• “Think like a novice,” reviewing your instructions and assignments from a student perspective to pinpoint when and where teachable moments happen.
• Retrofit or create from scratch classes that anticipate student needs and proactively meet those needs, leveraging the power of the hypertext.
• Identify places students will struggle, and use creative placement of help to be as close to the teachable moment as possible.
• Pull from available, embeddable Internet sources to enrich your course materials, allowing students to go on instructor-sanctioned digressions.
• Use Web 2.0 tools to expand, engage, and answer questions.

Who will benefit from this seminar:

• Instructors who are teaching online (or considering doing so)
• Instructors apprehensive about the loss of face-to-face interaction with students
• Course and curriculum designers
• Department chairs
• Program directors

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