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Quality Out Of The Gate: Preparing For Success With Innovative Templates And Tools, Paula Jones, Sasha Thackaberry Oct 2012

Quality Out Of The Gate: Preparing For Success With Innovative Templates And Tools, Paula Jones, Sasha Thackaberry

Instructional Development Center Faculty and Staff Research

Institutions are supporting faculty in designing courses that meet QM standards by using course templates. Eastern Kentucky University and Cuyahoga Community College have created course templates that serve as guides to meet QM standards and permit academic freedom for course development. This presentation will share the navigation, placeholders and discuss applications. Audience will take visual tours of the templates and will come away with a free virtual Instructional Design Toolkit and gain access to view the EKU course template.


Using Web Conferencing To Promote Learning In Online Courses: Resources, Tools, And Methods. The Society For Information Technology & Teacher Education 23rd International Conference Proceedings And Presentation, Paula Jones, Fred Kolloff, Maryann Kolloff Mar 2012

Using Web Conferencing To Promote Learning In Online Courses: Resources, Tools, And Methods. The Society For Information Technology & Teacher Education 23rd International Conference Proceedings And Presentation, Paula Jones, Fred Kolloff, Maryann Kolloff

Instructional Development Center Faculty and Staff Research

This paper is a summary of research and experiences using Web conferencing tools to support students in under graduate and graduate programs in learning through web-based courses. The presenters will share best practices associated with teaching while using web conferencing software. The more popular Web Conferencing software will be compared. Two examples of how faculty members use programs such as WebEX (a paid service) and Any Meeting (an open resource) will be demonstrated. Additional free or open source web conferencing systems will be shared within this session.


Preparing Teachers For 21st Century Skills: Using Blogs To Support Students In Learning Math And Encourage Teacher-Student-Parent Communications, Paula Jones Mar 2012

Preparing Teachers For 21st Century Skills: Using Blogs To Support Students In Learning Math And Encourage Teacher-Student-Parent Communications, Paula Jones

Instructional Development Center Faculty and Staff Research

Blogs are used to support future P-12 students in learning math and to encourage student, parent and teacher communication outside of the classroom. In this paper, valuable online resources are identified plus literature is summarized that documents the opportunities that blogging can bring to the educational setting. There is definitely a need for tech support and training to assist pre-service teachers on how to use social media and blogs. Most importantly, the pre-service teachers need support in using social media technology to plan for communications between generations. Educators need access to resources and tech support that will help them to …