Major themes for Passages 2008
- Teaching “soft” communication and team-building skills online
- Effective student assessment in eCourses
- Web 2.0 technologies for engaged learning
- Learning and teaching in virtual digital worlds
Keynote address at
Passages to e-Learning 2008
A New Generation of Learning:
Changing Students, Emerging Technology, and a Charge for Education
Mark David Milliron, President and CEO of Catalyze Learning International, Newland, NC. Mark is an award-winning author, speaker, and consultant who works nationally and globally with education, corporations, associations, and government. His Keynote address title is: A New Generation of Learning: Changing Students, Emerging Technology, and a Charge for Education. Mark's video and PowerPoint (WCU or HCC log-in and password needed)
Break-out Sessions
What's All This Talk About Soft Skills?
Sharon Dole & Kristy Wagner
This session will focus on the interpersonal and intrapersonal skills that promote learner engagement and team building in online courses. Participants will engage in interactive learning scenarios that demonstrate the use and non-use of these soft skills.
This session will focus on the interpersonal and intrapersonal skills that promote learner engagement and team building in online courses. Participants will engage in interactive learning scenarios that demonstrate the use and non-use of these soft skills.
Web 2.0 Technologies for Engaged Learning
Jana Wellman Ulrich & Joe Pollard
Web 2.0, aka “The Read-Write Web,” offers seemingly unbounded opportunities for learning, learner engagement, and learning assessment. This presentation will demonstrate some of the Web2.0 applications being tested for and used in online classes at Stanly Community College. The demonstration will include a discussion of the challenges, opportunities, and “return on learning” ratios we expect or have experienced.
Web 2.0, aka “The Read-Write Web,” offers seemingly unbounded opportunities for learning, learner engagement, and learning assessment. This presentation will demonstrate some of the Web2.0 applications being tested for and used in online classes at Stanly Community College. The demonstration will include a discussion of the challenges, opportunities, and “return on learning” ratios we expect or have experienced.
Carlie Merritt & Neil Torda
Criminal Courts are presented as class examples of various learning styles to address pedagogical aspects of a Second Life Project: student needs and engagement; faculty preparation requirements; and technology interface issues. Participants will view the virtual courthouse and accompanying digital learning materials. Presenters will address student assessment, implications for collaborative learning and use of virtual learning environments for multiple objectives.
Criminal Courts are presented as class examples of various learning styles to address pedagogical aspects of a Second Life Project: student needs and engagement; faculty preparation requirements; and technology interface issues. Participants will view the virtual courthouse and accompanying digital learning materials. Presenters will address student assessment, implications for collaborative learning and use of virtual learning environments for multiple objectives.
Assessing Student Performance in the Online Setting: Process, Product and Possibility
Frederick Buskey & Samantha Sircey
The session focuses on the use of formative assessment strategies to promote deep learning in an online leadership program. The session also examines student self-assessment and the challenges of assessing both the learning process and learning outcomes in online teaching and learning.
The session focuses on the use of formative assessment strategies to promote deep learning in an online leadership program. The session also examines student self-assessment and the challenges of assessing both the learning process and learning outcomes in online teaching and learning.
eLearning Showcase
During the 2008 Passages to eLearning, faculty were encouraged to spend a few minutes showing off their use of technology in a short informal presentation.
Shake Things Up - Add Internet Radio
Michael Caudill
Communication and Theater Arts
Revitalizing Cherokee Language with Digital Technology
Hartwell Francis
Anthropology and Sociology
Didactic E-ssessment
Lynn Gibbons-Beddow
English
Using YouTube to Personalize Course Announcements
Marlowe Mager
Distance Learning Director, Haywood Community College
The Grading Form Tool: Saving Your Time and Helping your Students
Anna McFadden
Coulter Faculty Center
Linking Two Worlds in Second Life
Maryanne Maisano
Elementary and Middle Grades Education
Automated Podcast Capture
Neil Torda
Coulter Faculty Center
Using the OCAT: Online Course Evaluation Process
John LeBaron
Coulter Faculty Center
The Digital Heritage Project: Using New Media to Collaborate Across Disciplines
Christie Fulcher
Mountain Heritage Center
Using Wikis as a Collaborative Tool
Robert Crow
Coulter Faculty Center
What the Coulter Faculty Center Can Do For You
John LeBaron
Coulter Faculty Center
What Distance Learning Can Do For You
Marlowe Mager
Distance Learning Director, Haywood Community College
Passages to eLearning 2008 sponsored by
Passages 2007 - For links to the 2007 Passages to E-Learning
Passages 2006 - For links to the 2006 Passages to E-Learning
Photo credits: Maggie Valley Club and Christina L. Fulcher
Passages 2006 - For links to the 2006 Passages to E-Learning
Photo credits: Maggie Valley Club and Christina L. Fulcher