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Toppling Global Barriers: The Emerging Culture of the Online Classroom

by Sloan-C Team
Oct 15 2008 - 12:00am
Oct 24 2008 - 11:59pm
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.

Registration open

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.

Technology Used in this Online Workshop:
Elluminate™ Live! ™: Elluminate’s powerful Live! software will take this workshop to a whole new level of interaction. Well suited for the classroom environment, Live! provides the flexibility our workshop needs, from a speaker delivering to hundreds of workshop participants, from a speaker delivering to hundreds of workshop participants, to multiple small discussion groups occurring in unison. Live! effectively delivers lecture-type speeches, while also having the ability to facilitate collaboration among many individuals.

Elluminate™ Live! ™: Elluminate’s powerful Live! software will take this workshop to a whole new level of interaction. Well suited for the classroom environment, Live! provides the flexibility our workshop needs, from a speaker delivering to hundreds of workshop participants, to multiple small discussion groups occurring in unison. Live! effectively delivers lecture-type speeches, while also having the ability to facilitate collaboration among many individuals.

Moodle: Sloan-C will use an open-source learning management system called Moodle to administer the asynchronous component of the workshop. Sloan-C has found Moodle to provide a flexible and user-friendly set of asynchronous collaboration and learning tools.

Moodle: Sloan-C will use an open-source learning management system called Moodle to administer the asynchronous component of the workshop. Sloan-C has found Moodle to provide a flexible and user-friendly set of asynchronous collaboration and learning tools. As with most open-source technologies, the Moodle software is free, making it a very cost-effective software package for any institution or company. We have found though that low-cost does not mean that you have to sacrifice quality. Moodle still provides a robust environment that is dynamic, interactive, and provides cross-platform learner access through a standard web browser.

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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