Workshop Descriptions

SUNY Learning Network

Workshop Descriptions

SLN New Faculty Workshop Series

Introduction to Online Learning (WS#1)

This workshop will serve as a general orientation and introduction to online learning, for those with no experience. It will provide an overview of various models, examine basic design issues and provide a tour of the online learning environment.

Presenting Content in Your Online Course (WS#2)

This hands-on workshop will focus on how to create various types of content in online courses. Participants will learn how to upload/create a course syllabus, add various types of information, link to outside resources.

Integrating Interaction into Your Online Course (WS#3)

This hands-on workshop will train participants in the pedagogy and tools associated with student-student and student-professor interaction. Topics covered will include: role of discussion in online courses, private communication with students, small-group interaction, and general questioning techniques.

Authentic Online Assessment (WS#4)

This hands-on workshop will address pedagogical issues of evaluation vs. assessment, how to assess the daily work, subjective vs. objective assessment, normative vs. summative evaluation, in online courses. Participants will also work directly with tools that support assessment.

Online Classroom Management (WS#5)

This workshop will focus on development of the skills necessary to manage a hybrid or fully-online course. Topics will include: attendance, gradebook, managing discussions, grading assignments, providing feedback.

Review and Revise Your Online Course (WS#6)

This workshop is attended while participants are teaching their first online course and will focus on reassessing learning strategies implemented, for development of course related best practices, in preparation for future offerings.

Experienced Faculty Workshops

SLN Instructional Design Institute (WS#7)

Each semester, SLN will develop a new specialty workshop focused on an aspect of online teaching and learning. Potential upcoming topics include: What's New, Multi-media Enhancement, Gradebook, Assessment, Learning Object Repositories, Reports/Automation, E-Portfolio, Discipline-specific Workshops (Math, Lab-based Science, Physical Education, etc).

The Returning Faculty Workshop topic for the Spring 2012 Development Cycle is:

Open Educational Resources: Leveraging 3rd Party Content for Your Online or Blended Course

As the quantity and quality of Internet resources grow, so do our instructional possibilities and choices.   This two hour workshop will focus on how to identify and implement rich content from various sources.   Faculty will take away skills that will enable them to:

•                     Identify rich content for their disciplines;

•                     Curate their findings for themselves and their students;

•                     Embed content into their courses;

•                     Implement their content with instructional design.

This workshop is open to all faculty.

Applying the Quality Matters Rubric

This   training will explore the SLN/Quality Matters Initiative and processes.  This initiative aims to provide faculty with a mechanism for continuous improvement in instructional design.  It will prepare you to be part of a program that can positively impact the design of your online courses.   After successfully completing this training, you will be eligible to move into the online Peer Reviewer Certification module offered through Quality Matters. In addition, you will gain ideas to improve your own courses using the SLN and QM tools.

  Upon completion of this workshop, you will be able to:

·       Understand the Quality Matters (QM) process and underlying principles;

·       Describe the eight standards of the QM Rubric;

·       Understand the peer review process, both formal (QM) and informal (SLN);

·       Explain the QM scoring system;

·       Write useful recommendations for course improvement;

·       Make decisions on whether or not a set of given scenarios meet the QM Rubric standards;

·       Collaborate with peer faculty in evaluating course design elements in an online course;

·       Pursue additional professional development opportunities through SLN and Quality Matters.

Participants will receive a Quality Matters certificate of completion at the conclusion of this training.

Experienced Faculty Workshops from previous semesters:

Determining Best Practices in Blended Learning   – Fall 2011

We know that online instruction has had a positive effect on face-to-face classrooms, as our online teaching community of practice re-thinks content presentation, interaction and feedback.   From SUNY Learning Network online faculty surveys, instructors consistently report that fully online teaching transforms their face-to-face teaching.*   Web-enhanced (presenting content) and hybrid (replacing face-to-face seat time)   teaching has now taken hold on our SUNY campuses.   This workshop aims to bring faculty together to discuss best practices that have emerged from these experiences.     We will present an overview of asynchronous teaching strategies that work, and then investigate with you the questions that arise when planning to incorporate these activities into face-to-face instruction:

Presentation   – Effective online instructional practices  

                      Measuring student-student interaction

                      Creating unlimited practice opportunities for learners

                      Leveraging multimedia and online resources

                      Student-centered learning

                      Providing instant feedback to students

                      Tracking student progress

                      Paperless writing submissions

                      Archived communication (public/private)  

                      Resources available for faculty

Group Discussion   – Share what you know  

                      How do we blend synchronous and asynchronous learning most effectively?

                      What works? What doesn’t work?

                      How do students react to a blended classroom?

                      What resources are available for faculty who wish to blend?

                      What are the best questions to ask when considering this approach for a given course or discipline?

                      What are the most effective face-to-face strategies for students?  

This workshop is intended for   all faculty .  

No online teaching experience is required.

* Shea, P. J., Pelz, W., Fredericksen, E., & Picket, A. M. (2001).   Online teaching as a catalyst for classroom-based instructional transformation .

"Instructional Design Institute" for returning faculty -   Teaching and learning in the “cloud” – Spring 2011

SLN’s Associate Director (and web2.0 enthusiast) Alexandra M. Pickett will lead you into the “cloud” exploring the effective uses of web2.0 to enhance online teaching and learning:
 
How can you use web2.0 to present engaging online content? How can you use web2.0 to facilitate engaging online collaboration and enhance interaction?   How can you use web2.0 to enhance online student feedback and assessment? Have you thought about using blogs in your course so that your students can reflect or make their thinking visible to you? How would you assess and give them feedback? Have you thought about podcasting or screencasting to provide engaging online student feedback? Could video enhance how you present your content? What would that look like? Have you ever wanted to open your course and invite the world in? Would you dare?
 
This workshop will answer these questions by showing you what it looks like to teach and learn in the "cloud." You will also consider criteria that you can use to evaluate technology for instructional purposes, and review examples and resources you can use to help you incorporate learner-generated content, the social web, and web 2.0 technologies in your instruction to enhance interaction and engage your students. This session will ask you to step into the "cloud" with me to consider possibilities for your own instruction. I will show you my “cloud” and how I am exploring what it really means to be learner-centered. I will show you what happens when several web 2.0 technologies (twitter, voicethread, diigo, edublogs, jing, seesmic, youtube, podomatic, audacity) are stitched together into one fully online course. I will talk about how I did it and why, and what the students thought about it. And I will also invite you to explore selected tools for yourself, and to join my networks, so you can   share what you know with me and others in the SLN/SUNY online teaching and learning community.

Using the Medium Effectively – Fall 2010

Workshop Description

This workshop will focus on the new features available in ANGEL 7.4 that can enhance your content presentation, classroom management, and overall efficiency in using the medium effectively.

Topics covered include:

·       Improving Your Efficiency in Content Delivery: Utilizing the LOR in 7.4

·       Assessing Student Work: The Rubric Creator

·       Tracking Student Outcomes: Using Standards and Objectives

·       Additional Enhancements in ANGEL 7.4

·       Using Google Media

·       Item Analysis

·       New resources   for faculty in ANGEL 7.4: SLN/Evergreen