Curt Bonk: The Macro and the Micro of Distance Learning

It’s quite a double bill...

Not one, but two seminars in one package presented by Dr. Curt Bonk, named “one of the top 10 U.S. e-learning gurus.” If you want to know the state-of-the-art in online teaching today – and what it will look like tomorrow – purchase this seminar package now.

Part I- Dr. Bonk tackles the future of online education in The Flat World Swung Open: Now WE-ALL-LEARN with Web Technology.

In this 90-minute session, he reviews the emerging practices and technologies that will drive online education forward, and explains how you can prepare now to cope with and capitalize on them. With his unique model of ten educational openers, he helps you:

• Understand how technology is impacting learning around the world.
• Sort out and choose among parallel trends in learning technologies.
• Extend from pervasive ideas about a flatter economic world to a more open one for education.
• Fully appreciate the recent explosion in global and cross-cultural education.
• Learn about a wealth of resources for strategic planning.
• Follow the trend toward more virtual, collaborative, personal, and mobile learning environments.
• Grasp new directions in open education and open educational resources.
• Appreciate how faculty jobs are changing – forever.

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Part II- Dr. Bonk addresses one of the biggest challenges facing online educators today: student engagement. Many students report dissatisfaction with online learning–we see that in low course ratings, anemic participation and disappointing dropout rates. But there are effective ways to keep students engaged in the online classroom, and Dr. Bonk shares those with you in 90 fast-paced, idea-filled minutes.

In this seminar, you’ll:

• Learn how to address student learning preferences online.
• Discover ways to motivate students in online environments with Dr. Bonk’s innovative TEC-VARIETY model.
• Be presented with a minimum of a dozen ideas you can use in your classrooms and programs.
• Get the facts on two unique ways of thinking about teaching and learning in online environments.
• Hear about a wealth of low-risk, low-cost, low-time activities.
• Create a vision of what you would like your classroom to be, and develop a plan to achieve it.
• See how to use the “R2D2 model” for thinking about diverse learning needs.
• Understand how the example you set online can help (or harm) your students.
• Learn to build peer and expert feedback into your online classes with techniques like critical friends and cross-institutional mentoring.
• Find out how to successfully prepare students for the rigors of online learning.

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Who will benefit from hearing these seminars:

• Professors, instructors, educators, lecturers
• Online facilitators, tutors, mentors, moderators
• Teaching and learning center personnel
• Instructional designers and media specialists
• E-learning evaluators
• E-learning program developers
• Other e-learning specialists and administrators
• Those interested in emerging learning technologies

About the presenter
Dr. Bonk, Professor of Instructional Systems Technology at Indiana University, is an author, international speaker and respected authority on distance learning and educational technology. His presentations are notable for their rich, up-to-the-minute content, and for his inimitable, high-energy style. You’ll be engaged–and entertained–throughout.

Don’t miss out on this exceptional opportunity to gain insight on both the present and the future of online education.

TO ORDER: Curt Bonk: The Macro and the Micro of Distance Learning
Description Price Seminar CD only $499 Seminar CD w/ Campus Access License $899 Seminar Transcript only $198 Seminar CD/Transcript Combo $697   $598	Satisfaction Guaranteed If you're not completely satisfied, return your purchase within 30 days of receipt for a full refund.