Thursday, August 22, 2013

Sloan Consortium online workshops starting soon!

The Sloan Consortium is an institutional and professional leadership organization dedicated to integrating online education into the mainstream of higher education, and helping institutions and individual educators improve the quality, scale, and breadth of online education. The Division of Information Technology sponsors the university's membership in the Sloan Consortium, which provides faculty, staff, and graduate students access to online workshops. The September workshops are now open for registration.
* Assessment Techniques for Collaborative Teams (9/18-9/27)
* Enhancing Distance Learning with Audio and Video (9/18-9/27)
* Exemplary Institutions: Addressing Faculty Workload (9/4-9/13)
* Learning Environments: Tablets (9/4-9/13)
* Massively Open Online Courses: The Basics (9/4-9/13)
* New to Online: The Essentials (9/4-9/13)
* Student Satisfaction: Engagement Online (9/18-9/27)
* Successful Online Outcomes: Improved Discussions (9/18-9/27) To register for these free workshops, please go to www.training.umd.edu and click on "Sloan-C Online Workshops" in the Course Catalog. For more information, please contact Deb Mateik at um-training@umd.edu .

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