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 .

Learning Technology workshops starting next week!

The Division of Information Technology's Learning Technologies Institute will conduct a series of FREE workshops for the university instructional community between August 1 and September 5.

Workshops cover such topics as building a course in ELMS (Canvas); using clickers, Adobe Connect, and wikis and blogs as teaching tools; creating media presentations with Camtasia or Prezi; as well as creating surveys with Qualtrics. Workshops about designing and teaching flipped or blended courses will be offered also.

Register at the Training@Maryland site: 

https://training.umd.edu/index.cfm?fuseaction=catalog.OrgSearch&org_id=484

Faculty Teaching Forum 10/14: "Talking Outside the Box"

Join your colleagues as they showcase how they have incorporated online discussion boards into their courses and have increased student engagement both inside and outside of the classroom. The panelists, Dr. Eyda Merediz, Dr. Alene Moyer, and graduate student Veronica Muñoz will each discuss planning, assessment and the results of their firsttime uses of the discussion tool available in Blackboard as well as give examples from their language and literature courses. This session will take place in the multipurpose room in St. Mary's hall from 3:30-5pm on Wednesday, October 15th. One on one hands on sessions will be available by appointment. This session is part of the SLLC Faculty Teaching Forum.