Two new courses for professional development are near completion: an introductory course on Wimba and a course on Blackboard's Early Warning System.
The Wimba course, entitled Teaching Effectively Online: Wimba 101, is a three-week course, offered for professional development credit, and at no cost to the instructor. The course is available to anyone teaching in the MSVCC.
The course was written, developed, and designed by Terry Pollard, State Board eLearning Specialist. The course, which consists of three one-week lessons, will introduce faculty to Wimba's set of audio tools and will emphasize pedagogy, not technology.
The course is intended for those looking to integrate voice into their course to improve student-to-student and student-to-teacher interaction.
Participants will
- Identify key differences in communicating with face-to-face students and online student,
- Evaluate the effectiveness of first-generation online courses in terms of student engagement,
- Apply concepts learned by
- responding to questions posed by facilitator (using Wimba)
- building a Wimba voice lesson in their own online course (using Wimba)
- building a Wimba Presentation lesson in their own online course
- View a Wimba tools matrix outlining features of all seven Wimba tools and learn to choose the best tool for the task
- Write a faculty action plan for use of Wimba tools.
The course will be limited to fifteen instructors; in order to use the Wimba voice tools, headsets will be required.
The course begins on March 9.
To register to the course, email Terry Pollard, SBCJC eLearning Specialist here.
Jenny Jones, Instructional Technology Trainer at Holmes Community College, is nearly finished building a two-week course on Blackboard's new Early Warning System feature.
The Blackboard course, entitled Teaching Effectively Online--Blackboard Early Warning System, is also available for professional development credit and at no cost to the instructor. The course is available to anyone teaching in the MSVCC.
Blackboard's Early Warning System tool, a new tool available in version 8 of Blackboard, has been identified as a tool that may improve identification of at-risk students. This course is intended for faculty seeking to more quickly identify at-risk students and communicate with them about their performance based on certain criteria such as attendance, grade performance, or due date.
Participants will
- learn how to use a Blackboard tool to notify students based on certain criteria, such as attendance and grade threshold,
- learn about best practices for using the tool, including the creation of a single rule rather than multiple rules, and
- learn about record-keeping for the tool, in order to track rules and rule results.
The course begins on March 9.
To register for the course, email Jenny Jones here.
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