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Toppling Global Barriers: The Emerging Culture of the Online Classroom
by Sloan-C
Start: Oct 15 2008 - 1:00am
End: Oct 25 2008 - 12:59am
Key Online Workshop Information Minimum Estimated Time Commitment:
~ 5 - 10 hours/week
Resources Provided in Workshop:
3+ hours of presentations as well as exemplary courses, viewable online until December 31st, 2008
1-hour Live Panel Discussions - Friday, October 24th, 2pm-3pm ET – Live session conducted in online meeting room
During the Panel Discussion - Participation in Live Q&A
After the Panel Discussion - Viewing of Q&A Session until December 31st, 2008
Event Summary:
Cross-cultural virtual classrooms are fast becoming the rule rather than the exception. In today’s interconnected and independent world, the online learning environment is becoming more diverse. Faculty and students involved in international learning communities provide opportunities for both to understand the world across the breath, depth and complexities of human experiences. This workshop explores the opportunities and challenges institutions face as they expand their classroom doors overseas, such as instructor/learner preparation, conflict resolution, team building, and time zone/holiday management. Participating institutions will demonstrate how effective management of the global classroom contributes toward building human-to-human connections and rendering educational boundaries between countries irrelevant.
Every participant will receive a welcome e-mail by noon the day the workshop begins with the workshop URL and an enrollment key that must be entered to access the site.
Complete Workshop Description Online Workshop Description:
Workshop Agenda at Glance Activities begin Wednesday, October 15th . A live synchronous Question and Answer Online Session will be held on Friday of the second week, August 1st, 2pm-3pm ET. All activity is recorded, even the live events, allowing you to watch the events at a later date if you are unable to attend. All workshop content will remain available until the end of the year. Workshop Description Cross-cultural virtual classrooms are fast becoming the rule rather than the exception. In today’s interconnected and independent world, the online learning environment is becoming more diverse. Faculty and students involved in international learning communities provide opportunities for both to understand the world across the breath, depth and complexities of human experiences. This workshop explores the opportunities and challenges institutions face as they expand their classroom doors overseas, such as instructor/learner preparation, conflict resolution, team building, and time zone/holiday management. Participating institutions will demonstrate how effective management of the global classroom contributes toward building human-to-human connections and rendering educational boundaries between countries irrelevant.
Schedule:
October 15th – October 17th Activities : Learn Moodle, the workshop's learning management system, and Elluminate Live!, the workshop's web conferencing platform. Watch recorded presentations and begin reviewing guest courses.
October 20th – October 24th Activities: Continue reviewing presentations and ancillary materials; participate in discussion forum with workshop facilitators Molly Mott and Michael Mayo.
A Live Web Conferencing Session is conducted on Friday, October 24 th at 2PM(ET) (Online using Elluminate Live!): facilitated by Karen Vignare and Chris Geith. We will begin the session with an open round of comments from the facilitator and then open the forum up for Q&A and/or presentations/show-and-tell from workshop participants. We will finish with a summary of thoughts from the facilitator. THE SESSIONS WILL BE RECORDED FOR LATERVIEWING AT YOUR CONVENIENCE.
Sloan-C Certificate Program Eligibility:
This online workshop can be counted toward the Sloan-C Online Teaching Certificate.
Pricing Information:
Price: $295 Each Individual/Premium Sloan-C Member price: $145 w/coupon code* (you will enter the coupon code on the payment page of your shopping cart process) College Pass Member Pricing: No Cost w/coupon code* (you will enter the coupon code on the payment page of your shopping cart process) *Individual Premium Members receive 1 discount with membership, Institutional Premium Members receive 20 discounts, and College Pass Members receive 150 "free" seats in the entire 2008 Sloan-C Workshop series.
Presenter/Panelist Biographies Biographies of Presenters/Panelists:
Karen Vignare , Michigan State University Karen Vignare currently serves as the Director of the Customer Experience for MSU Global at Michigan State University. In that role, Karen is responsible for creating online entrepreneurial approaches for extending both non-credit and credit programs at MSU. Besides supervising content creation, she oversees all customer services. She has published research on online learning retention, models, business practices and blended learning. She is an adjunct professor teaching Customer Relationship Management and Marketing on Internet courses. Karen serves on several organizational boards--NUTN, Distance Education. Karen has served as a full-time faculty member at SUNY-Alfred State in the marketing, retail, and computer technology departments. She also served as a vice president and political economist for a Wall Street financial firm. She has an MBA from the University of Rochester’s William Simon School of Business and a BS from Frostburg State University in political science and economics. She is currently attending doctoral classes at Nova Southeastern University.
Chris Geith - Michigan State University Dr. Christine Geith is Assistant Provost and Executive Director of Michigan State University's MSU Global, the university's entrepreneurial business unit that works with partners across the campus and worldwide to develop and market online institutes, programs and services.
Cancellation Policy:
If you register and pay for a Sloan-C workshop/seminar and are unable to attend, we will be happy to apply your payment to another Sloan-C workshop/seminar at your request. However, no refunds will be given. This offer is good for one year.
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