Online Seminars

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Creatively Engaging Online Students: Models and Activities

Curt Bonk PhD

Addresses growing concerns about a lack of engagement in the online classroom. Student dissatisfaction, apathy, and increasingly, attrition threaten to derail the progress of online education at many schools. During this presentation, you'll discover how to address those problems, and how to build proven engagement-boosters into your online programs.

Curt Bonk, Ph.D. is professor of Instructional Systems Technology at Indiana University and president and founder of both SurveyShare and CourseShare. Drawing on his background as a corporate controller, CPA, educational psychologist, and instructional technologist, Bonk offers unique insights into the intersection of business, education, psychology, and technology. A well- known authority on emerging technologies for learning, Bonk reflects on his speaking experiences around the world in his popular blog, TravelinEdMan. He has coauthored several widely used technology books, including The World is Open, Empowering Online Learning, The Handbook of Blended Learning, and Electronic Collaborators.
The Flat World Swung Open: Now WE-ALL-LEARN with Web Technology

Curt Bonk PhD

This presentation takes a fascinating look at where the online classroom is headed. In this session, Dr. Bonk reviews the ten education openers that form the acronym "WE ALL LEARN".

Curt Bonk, Ph.D. is professor of Instructional Systems Technology at Indiana University and president and founder of both SurveyShare and CourseShare. Drawing on his background as a corporate controller, CPA, educational psychologist, and instructional technologist, Bonk offers unique insights into the intersection of business, education, psychology, and technology. A well- known authority on emerging technologies for learning, Bonk reflects on his speaking experiences around the world in his popular blog, TravelinEdMan. He has coauthored several widely used technology books, including The World is Open, Empowering Online Learning, The Handbook of Blended Learning, and Electronic Collaborators.
Designing an Effective Collaborative Wiki Project

Rhonda Ficek PhD

This presentation discusses elements of successful instructional wiki project, recommended wiki project types for the classroom, how wikis streamline and support the collaborative process, how to create the all-important opening page, best practices for page structure, and more.

Rhonda Ficek is the director of Instructional Technology Services at Minnesota State University Moorhead (MSUM). She holds master’s and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science. Rhonda is also a professor in the Computer Science and Information Systems Department. Rhonda has worked with faculty at MSUM to incorporate instructional technologies into their courses and in the design and development of hybrid and online classes. She has designed and taught numerous online courses herself. She manages a team of student technology assistants who develop and research new applications and approaches related to instructional technology.
Social Studies and Science Unit For Multigrade Classrooms

NAD

This is a collection of reference materials for social studies teachers.
Engaging the Disengaged with Experiential Learning

Jim La Prad and Andy Mink

This presentation explores ideas for teachers on how to get their students to engage within the classroom and how to keep their students on topic.

Jim La Prad is an associate professor of Education at Western Illinois University teaching courses in the social foundations of education from philosophical, historical, legal, and socio-cultural perspectives. His research, scholarship and practice include critical pedagogy in teaching and learning environments, experiential education, educational ethics, moral education, and transformative educational leadership. He received his B.S. in Metallurgical and Material Science Engineering from the University of Notre Dame and his M.Ed. and Ph.D. in Social Foundations of Education from the University of Virginia. Prior to his current appointment, his experiences include service abroad as an Infantry Officer in the United States Marine Corps; teaching high school physics, earth science, and physical science; facilitating community service learning experiences for both high school and college students in Appalachia; and teaching middle school math and science for the Discovery Program, a nationally recognized "school within a school" experiential and integrated curriculum program for a heterogeneous population that emphasized academic, physical, and emotional learning equally.

Additionally, he has worked with the Hurricane Island Outward Bound School in Maine and North Carolina Outward Bound School. He has facilitated workshops and presented at international, national, and regional conferences. Recently, the National Society for Experiential Education honored him as NSEE’s 2008 Experiential Education Higher Education Leader of the Year.

Andy Mink is director of Outreach and Education for the Virginia Center for Digital History at the University of Virginia. He creates and leads experiential professional development opportunities for K-12 and university educators that focus on content, on methodology, and on assessment. With a specific focus on history education, his primary interests lie in the development of learning expeditions for educators that inform and transform their classroom practice. After graduating from the University of Virginia and the University of South Carolina with degrees in history, Andy Mink taught for ten years in a rural middle school in central Virginia. In 1996, he founded and served as director of The Discovery Program, a nationally recognized “school within a school” experiential education and integrated curriculum program. More recently he has worked as a school design consultant for Expeditionary Learning Institute in Asheville, North Carolina, and Expeditionary Learning Outward Bound (ELOB) in Annapolis, Maryland. The National Society for Experiential Education (NSEE) honored him as the National Educator of the Year in 2003. He also sits on the Board of Directors of the North Carolina Outward Bound School.
How Good is Good Enough?

Linda Suskie

This presentation covers choosing standards and how to set that standard within the classroom.

Linda Suskie is executive associate director of the Middle States Commission on Higher Education. Prior positions include serving as associate vice president for assessment and institutional research at Towson University, near Baltimore, Maryland, and as director of the American Association for Higher Education’s Assessment Forum. She holds a bachelor’s degree in quantitative studies from Johns Hopkins University and a master’s in educational measurement and statistics from the University of Iowa.
How Good is Good Enough? Setting Benchmarks or Standards

Linda Suskie

This presentation covers choosing the kind of standard or benchmark to set, setting a performance standard, and setting targets for collective student performances.

Linda Suskie is executive associate director of the Middle States Commission on Higher Education. Prior positions include serving as associate vice president for assessment and institutional research at Towson University, near Baltimore, Maryland, and as director of the American Association for Higher Education’s Assessment Forum. She holds a bachelor’s degree in quantitative studies from Johns Hopkins University and a master’s in educational measurement and statistics from the University of Iowa.
Classroom Management 101: Working with Difficult Students

Brian Van Brunt and Jason Ebbeling

This presentation covers what problems are found in the classroom and how to deal with them.

Dr. Brian Van Brunt has worked in the counseling field for over fourteen years. He served as director of Counseling at New England College from 2001-2007 and currently serves as director of Counseling and Testing and Western Kentucky University. He has presented on website design at the Georgia College Counseling Association in 2007 and was awarded the American College Health Association Innovation Grant for his work on New England College’s website. Brian has presented nationally on counseling ethics, mandated counseling, testing and assessment at the American College Counseling Association (ACCA), Association of College and University Counseling Center Directors (AUCCCD), and the National Association of Forensic Counselors (NAFC). He has taught graduate classes in counseling theory, ethics, testing and assessment and program evaluation.

Jason Ebbeling is associate dean of Student Affairs at Menlo College in Atherton, Cal. He previously served as director of Campus Life at New England College, as residence community coordinator at California State University, Chico, and as director of Residence Life at Edgewood College in Madison, Wis. He completed doctoral course- work in Educational Administration at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and received a Juris Doctorate from The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law.