Web 2.0 Tools for Lifelong Learning in Online Courses

E-Learning As a Path to Lifelong Learning

Constant change is emerging as the new normal.

To survive and thrive, organizations and individuals must be able to adjust, and enhance their knowledge and skills to meet evolving needs.

This means the most important thing your students can learn is how to learn.

In Web 2.0 Tools for Lifelong Learning in Online Courses, Dr. Joanna “Joni” Dunlap shows you how to use technology to engage your students and prepare them for lifelong learning.

During this 75-minute seminar you’ll learn:

The role lifelong learning outcomes have in your students’ education and professional preparation
How to use Web 2.0 technologies and tools to engage students and prepare them to be lifelong learners.

Teach Your Students to Succeed With Online Learning

Just because your students are tech savvy doesn’t mean they’re effective online learners. In this seminar, you’ll find out how to give your students the skills they need to be successful at self-directed learning while in school. You’ll learn how to do the following:

Use blogging to get students to reflect on course material
Use micro-sharing and social networking to get students used to working in a professional community
Use document co-creation and resource sharing to encourage dialogue and collaboration.

These same practices will benefit your students as they move into the workplace, for today’s employers seek quick and efficient lifelong learners. Web 2.0 techniques are essential career builders, and in this audio online seminar you’ll explore ways to teach your students how to use these tools to maximize their educational and professional success.

Your Lifelong Learning Outcomes

Dunlap, an award-winning educator, will share broad principles and specific methods for using Web 2.0 to promote lifelong learning. This is some of what you’ll learn in her seminar:

How to let pedagogy, rather than technology, guide your selection of Web 2.0 techniques
How to make course work relevant to students by drawing upon your own experience
How to show students the career-building applications of Web 2.0
How to set expectations for participation
How to model effective technology use
How to make effective Web 2.0 use part of assessment.

Who Will Benefit from this Web 2.0 Techniques Seminar

This seminar has vital information for longtime faculty who want to refine their teaching techniques, as well as those just starting their careers. The session will be of particular interest to:

Professors
Instructors
Faculty developers
Instructional designers
Course developers.

About the Presenter

Joanna C. Dunlap, Ph.D., is an award-winning educator. Drawing from her wide-ranging experience in teaching, research, consulting and presenting, her speaking style is collegial and conversational. Dunlap is an associate professor of instructional design and technology and the Assistant Director for Teaching Effectiveness at the University of Colorado Denver. She has published extensively, taught at the college and university level for more than 20 years and taught online for over 15 years. She received Pearson's Outstanding Online Teaching Award in 2010. Her teaching and research interests focus on the use of socio-cultural approaches to enhance postsecondary learners’ development and experience. She has a Ph.D. from the University of Colorado Denver and an MBA from California State University.

Bonus Items

Along with the seminar, you’ll receive a reference sheet with links to the technologies, tools and examples discussed during the seminar. You’ll also receive a copy of a book chapter on using Web 2.0 tools and technologies to support the development of students’ lifelong learning skills, which Dunlap co-authored.

Train With Your Colleagues

You and all your colleagues interested in lifelong learning and Web 2.0 can gather in one location and watch Web 2.0 Tools for Lifelong Learning in Online Courses for one low price of $259. Simply project the CD in a facility large enough to accommdate your group.

The Discussion Guide for Facilitators

You also receive a copy of the Discussion Guide for Facilitators, which has just the tools you need to spark campus-wide exploration of using Web 2.0 to promote lifelong learning.

After you’ve learned about employing Twitter, Facebook, blogging, social networking, document co-creation, and resource sharing to engage students, the Discussion Guide for Facilitators will help you share this information and start putting it to use.

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