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Jan. 20, 22

Have you ever wanted to contact all of your students with one simple message? Have you ever wanted to create more dynamic ways for your students to learn?

Using the eCollege Course Management System (CMS) for Online Course Development

Course Management System Basic "How to" for faculty members using eCompanion for web-enhanced and eCollege for fully online courses.

Jan. 27, 29

Have you ever wanted to give a quiz that grades itself? Or have all your students’ averages and percentages counted for you?

How do you know when students have arrived, either for objectives or for goals?

eCollege Gradebook / Quizzes and Test Banks

Learn to set up and manipulate your eCollege gradebook. Learn to develop and design assessment tools that provide students with the opportunity to demonstrate the skills, knowledge, and attitudes stated in the objectives.

Feb. 3, 5

Do you think that a regular whiteboard is just missing something? Have you ever wondered if the simplicity of a whiteboard can be combined with the power of a computer?

Effective Use of the Interactive Whiteboard in a Classroom

Learn to operate an interactive whiteboard, to adjust your presentations to be used with the interactive whiteboard to add more flexibility and student engagement to your classroom.

Feb. 10, 12

Have you ever thought about recording your lectures to share with your students online?
Would you like to make your discussions available as podcasts for online delivery?

Audio Production and Podcasting: On-Demand Learning

Learn recording and editing sound. Learn how to transform your audio recording into a podcast and how to publish it.

Feb. 17, 19

Have you ever thought about incorporating video recording into your research projects or your classroom, whether on campus, or online?

Producing Simple Instructional Videos and Video Podcasts

Digitizing and editing video appropriate for online learning and classroom enhancement.

Feb. 24, 26

Have you ever wanted to create your own website? Have you ever wanted to get the most out of the Internet?

Developing Educational Websites Using Dreamweaver

Design and development of websites using Dreamweaver.

Mar. 3, 5

Have you ever wondered if the materials downloaded from the Internet are legal to use? Would you like to protect your materials posted on the Internet? Have you ever wanted to make the research resource citation easier and more painless?

Creative Commons and EndNote

Learn how to protect your instructional materials from plagiarism and theft. Learn to work with the software that will make your research and writing comply with APA or any other writing styles automatically.

Mar. 10, 12

Have you ever wanted to create a stand-alone instructional product for your students, a product with software simulations, demonstrations, games, self-graded quizzes with immediate feedback?

Learn how to create interactive computer-based training and tests.

Mar. 24, 26

Do you think 3D virtual worlds are only for teenage gamers? Are you interested in engaging your students in creating their own learning activities and experiences? Would you like to take your students to a virtual exhibit or a presentation?

Using a Virtual Learning Environment: Second Life

Learn how to create a 3D virtual learning environment and engage your students in role-plays, simulations and visualizations to enhance their learning.

Mar. 31, Apr. 2

Have you ever wanted to know if there is an alternative to eCollege CMS that you can start using even in the middle of the semester to augment your face-to-face courses?

Moodle: An Open Source CMS for Supplementing Online and Blended Courses

Learn to install and set up your online courses using Moodle, learn how to navigate in your course and to use it to your and your students’ benefit.

Apr. 7, 9

In an online learning environment, the instructor assumes a new role, one of facilitator of information and student guide. Online learning also requires students to be actively involved in their learning by assuming more control over what they learn and how they learn it. As an instructor of an online class, what can I do to stimulate a student’s curiosity and increase his or her learning?

Pedagogy & Motivation Strategies in Online Learning

Learn instructional strategies that have been used effectively in the traditional classroom and which are adaptable to an online learning environment. The class will present ideas that will assist you in improving and sustaining your students’ motivation.

Apr. 14, 16

Do you use assessment tools only to assess the students’ performance and wonder how to use them in the instructional process itself to improve the students’ learning?

Using Assessment to Learn

Learn how to create standard and alternative assessment tools and how to use them to enhance your students’ learning.

Apr. 21, 23

Have you ever wondered if you can use the students’ obsession with cell phones as the advantage for their education?

Mobile Learning for the Mobile Student

Learn how cell phones can be used in an instructional process to make the instruction more relevant and interesting to your students.