4/16/2014
Monday, April 14, 2014
[ED-TECH] Wikis, statistics tracking, twitter feeds, and the Collaborate iPad app will be covered in upcoming Virtual Office Hours sessions
4/16/2014
Friday, April 11, 2014
[ED-TECH] On-Line Education sessions - Wed, April 16th
If you wish to attend one of the On-Line Education sessions on Wednesday, April 16th, at 9:30am, 11:30am, or 2:30pm, in the new Student Activity Center, Room 304 (Activity Room North)), please register by going to http://iacevents.org and selecting the session you want to attend. Please share this information with others who might be interested.
- Bill -
ORIGINAL ANNOUNCEMENT SENT TO ALL FACULTY
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The University of Miami is developing new on-line courses and degrees that will be offered this year. What do on-line courses look like? What is it like to teach on-line? What does it take to develop an on-line course?
The Provost's Office invites all University of Miami faculty to an On-Line Education Open House. At this session, Laureate Education, Inc. will demonstrate the design and features of some of the online courses that they have developed. This should answer many of your questions and give you a preview of what University of Miami on-line courses could look like. Laureate representatives will discuss:
- Various on-line classroom styles, approaches to content, organizations, and features
- Various types of media that can be used in on-line classrooms such as videos, simulations, and interactive media
- Course activities that challenge and engage online students
- Current technologies for Student Identity Verification, industry standards and what Laureate is investigating and piloting in this area
The open-house sessions will run three times on April 16th to maximize the number of people who can attend. Space is limited, so if you plan to attend, please register.
When Wednesday April 16, 2014 from 9:30am to 11:00am, 11:30am to 1:00pm, and 2:30pm to 4:00pm (Each session will be a repeat of the same presentation)
Where Student Activity Center 304 - Activities Room North
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Tuesday, April 01, 2014
[ED-TECH] Blackboard Collaborate for use outside of Blackboard Learn
Blackboard Collaborate has been available inside of Blackboard Learn for a while. Now it will be available outside of Blackboard Learn as a full webinar and web conferencing system. Blackboard Collaborate supports video, audio, presentations, and screen sharing. People do not have to be part of UM in order to be a participant or a moderator of a session.
If you are interested in using the Blackboard Collaborate system, please attend the exciting announcement on April 1st. For more information about this event, or special accomodations, please contact Rick Ramos at either 305-284-3949 or r.ramos3@miami.edu .
- Bill -
bill.vilberg@miami.edu