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Teaching with Technology

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Staff Writer

Center for Support of Instruction

Category: » Workshops » Additional-training-ppportunities

The UMUC-Verizon Virtual Resource Site for Teaching with Technology is afree online workshop geared towards faculty seeking direction in appropriate ways to use Web-based technologies to accomplish key learning strategies.

Module 1 provides information about the selection and use of various Web-based media, such as text, audio, video, still images, animated graphics, applets, and scripts, to accomplish a number of different learning strategies. Each strategy is linked to examples from different disciplines; information about the different technologies employed follows each example and users may also begin to navigate Module 1 by exploring the technologies. The object of Module 1 is to assist faculty in creating and using various media in ways appropriate for their students' learning experience.

Module 2 focuses on delivery. This module features faculty interviews about realities and successful practices in online course delivery. Particular attention is paid to ways of encouraging interactivity as a key influence on students' learning styles. Module 2 also provides specific strategies for managing the use of technology in research assignments, small group projects, discussions, and other activities that foster interaction. There is a gallery of links to important related resources. Lastly, instructors wishing to put teaching strategies into a conceptual context may review extensive information on using a systems approach to course design.

Module 2 helps faculty use some of the materials presented in Module 1 to foster interaction among students and builds on Module 1 to develop broads ways of understanding the emerging pedagogy of online education.