How to Balance Online Learner Needs and Instructor Workload

The world of distance education is experiencing red-hot growth. 

But without a learner-centered approach, both teachers and students may soon give online learning the cold shoulder.

Why the need for an altered approach to online education? 

Distance education has tremendous potential, but increasingly, students and instructors are experiencing frustration on a number of fronts:

• Instructors’ workloads are increasing. 
  The need to respond individually to students can be all-consuming and exhausting, and instructors are finding their workloads are becoming difficult to maintain.
• Students miss a sense of community. 
  A classroom fosters a community, and students often feel isolated without this connection, which may negatively impact student learning.

The problems are real, but they’re not insurmountable. 

Samantha Streamer-Veneruso and Tammy Stuart Perry show you the solution lies in creating a learner-centered community that encourages students to assume more of the learning responsibility while reducing the instructor’s workload.

In this 75-minute seminar on CD, presented by two experienced online educators, we help you:

• Identify and implement strategies for establishing an instructor presence while decreasing teacher workload.
• Combine learner-centered, interactive instructional activities with targeted instructor feedback to enhance student achievement and retention.
• Establish an “invisible” presence in your courses.

Distance education is changing the paradigm of education, so it’s only natural that you must adapt your own personal skills to meet this new dynamic. 

This seminar provides tangible, working solutions that you can use to modify your approach and create active learning. 

You’ll learn how to:

• Create an environment that’s welcoming to students, yet compels to them to work and think individually.
• Develop assignments and grading strategies to increase student interaction.
• Avoid feeling overwhelmed by the perceived 24x7 nature of student participation in asynchronous online courses.
• Connect students to other members of their class, thereby reducing their reliance on instructors.

By the end of the seminar, you’ll have the blueprint for a new approach to distance education. 

You’ll discover a more fulfilling, less stressful teaching methodology.

Your students will enjoy a much more fulfilling educational experience.

And your course evaluations will reflect it. 

Who will benefit from this seminar?

Any educator from a two or four-year college or university:

• Faculty (full and part-time)
• Department Chairs
• Instructional Designers

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