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Brian Udermann, PhD, has more than 20 years of teaching experience in higher education. He started teaching online in 2005, and served as the director of online education at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse from 2007-2020. In addition to his administrative duties, he facilitates online workshops through the Online Learning Consortium (OLC) and is an alumnus of OLC’s Institute for Emerging Leadership in Online Learning. Udermann has published more than 70 peer-reviewed scientific manuscripts, five book chapters, and two books, and has done more than 200 national and international presentations.
Last Updated: 1-11-2021
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How Can You Help Online Students Be More Successful in Your Course?
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- One common misperception students have regarding online courses is that these courses are easier, less time consuming, and less rigorous than traditional face-to-face courses. This can lead to a major disconnect between expectations and outcome.
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How Can Online Instructors Better Manage Their Workload?
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- About 60-70% of faculty believe that teaching online courses is more work intensive than teaching face-to-face courses. Factors include course preparation before teaching, managing sometimes unwieldy online discussions, and even fielding student questions around the clock.
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How Can I Add Choice to My Course to Give Students Autonomy and Motivate Deep Learning?
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- Authentic assessment can be difficult when you are faced with a vastly diverse audience of students. How can we best meet their needs when each of their learning styles, skills, and passions widely vary? The answer to this challenge may live within the concept of choice.
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How Can I Be My Own Instructional Designer?
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- Sometimes, faculty don't have the support of an instructional designer to help plan their courses. In fact, many faculty never have any help from an instructional designer whatsoever. So, where do they start?
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How Can I Help Online Students Develop Autonomy and Take More Responsibility for Their Learning?
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- Research shows that in order to be successful in online classes, students need to be able to manage their time, motivate themselves to work on schedule, and seek help when needed, among other executive functioning skills. One major online learning challenge occurs because many online students are still developing these life skills.
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How Can I Become a Better Online Instructor?
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- This program will present five practical strategies to level up online teaching so that instructors experience greater satisfaction in their work and create more rewarding learning experiences for their students.
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How Can I Guide Online Learning By Engaging with Students?
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- Gain practical approaches for engaging with online students, fostering connections between students, and for students to better relate to your content.
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How Can Universities Empower Adult Learners?
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- In order to truly advance the careers and lives of adult learners, educators need to understand the importance of adult learners to universities, the complex lives of adult learners, and the appeal of online courses among this learner group. Not insignificant to this goal is the fact that many of these learners are now millennials with distinct learning preferences and life challenges.
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How Can I Spark Conversation in the Classroom?
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- Student engagement—especially in conversation and peer interaction—can be a big challenge for college educators. This program introduces four tried-and-true techniques to create a learning environment that is literally buzzing with student conversation.
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How Can Post-Exam Reviews Become a Powerful Teaching Strategy?
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- The benefits of a thoughtfully designed and learning-oriented post-exam review session is a win- win for both faculty and students. When post-exam review is implemented with concepts critical to student learning, students are given the opportunity for metacognition to identify both strengths and gaps in knowledge, explore content to apply classroom knowledge, and differentiate correct from incorrect thinking.
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What is the Best Teaching Advice I Ever Received?
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- What things can teachers do to become more effective in the classroom? For faculty who are interested in becoming a better teacher, this presentation shares teaching advice collected from outstanding research professors.
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What is the Best Scholarship Advice I Ever Received?
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- What things can teachers do to become more effective scholars? For faculty who are interested in becoming a better and more efficient researcher and writer, this presentation shares scholarship advice assembled from outstanding research professors.
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