How to Orient New Instructors to an Online Course FAST!

Maintain A High Quality Learning Experience

It used to be you could “orient” a new classroom instructor just by pointing to the chalk.

But in today’s online classroom, orientation is a much trickier proposition. It takes careful planning to seamlessly integrate a new instructor and maintain a high-quality learning experience for students.

We give you valuable orientation strategies to help:

Build instructors’ confidence and familiarity with course content and technologies.
Reduce calls to the IT Help Desk.
Protect the quality of the learning experience for students from the very first day.

This 75-minute seminar is led by Jennifer Berghage, instructional designer at Penn State’s World Campus. A veteran of distance-learning programs, she shares tools and techniques you can use to ease your instructors’ transition, including:

Instructor tip sheets

What they are
How to use them
The right way to create them

Rubrics and answer keys

How they can help instructors
What they should look like
Which to use for assignments and which for exams
How to gain faculty buy-in for answer keys

Web site walk-throughs

Which technologies to use
How long to make them
How they’ll help your instructors

A budget-friendly learning opportunity

Magna Online Seminars fit any budget. You can invite others from across your campus to watch the CD, and it won’t cost a penny more. Just project the CD in a facility large enough to accommodate your group.

Who will benefit from How to Orient New Instructors to an Online Course FAST!?

Distance ed administrators
Instructional designers
Administrators and managers of online education

Discussion Guide for Facilitators

Viewing a Magna Online Seminar on CD as a team can help leverage unique insights and fosters collaboration. This seminar includes a Discussion Guide for Facilitators, which provides step-by-step instructions for generating productive discussions and thoughtful reflection. You also get guidelines for continuing the conversation after the event, implementing the strategies discussed, and creating a feedback loop for sharing best practices and challenges.

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