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Designing an Institutional Training Program for Teleteaching

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Introduction

Training instructors to plan and organize a telecourse as well as teach at a distance is the key to success and survival in this growing competitive market Teaching at a distance is different from traditional teaching and requires different and sharper skills. Are there areas of competence in distance teaching that differ from traditional teaching? If so, what are they and how do we train instructors for top quality distance learning programs? This is the key question addressed in this workshop. In addition to identifying and verifying the question of new skills needed, the workshop introduces a number of exciting and different teaching strategies.

Workshop Learning Performance Objectives

Describe the components of an effective staff development program.

Identify all of the components of a needed staff development program.

Design a skeletion outline for a staff development program.

Specific topics

1.	Definition of distance learning
2.	Alternative delivery systems
3.	The chicken or the egg: Technology or learning?
4.	Professional inventory of existing resources and support services
5.	What quality distance learning programs?
6.	Competence in teaching at a distance: There are differences
7.	Training needs: Real and perceived
8.	Generic skills for telecourse design: a. The five step learner-focused interactive instructional system  b. Visual thinking: Making the verbal visual c. Visual indicators for visual thinking d. Graphic design principles for telecourses e. Involving students at field sites: 156+ strategies f. Effective handouts and interactive study guides g. Telelesson planning h. Presentation graphics with PowerPoint and HyperStudio
9.	Specific skills for interactive television, WWW, and audioconferencing a. Verbal/non-verbal presentation skills b. Simple production strategies: You are the director c. Web course management systems and the Internet d. Numbered handouts for audioconferencing
10.	Learning driven technology decision matrix
11.	Different facilitator roles
12.	Faculty incentives: Release time, summer employment, additional compensation, ownership, royalty sharing
13.	Use of cases, scenarios, and games
14.	Team projects: Group and peer review
15.	Use of learning contracts
16.	Available resources
17.	Favorite URLs
18.	Presentations with constructive feedback
19.	Copyright fundamentals
20.	Telecourse evaluation criteria
21.	Certificate of Achievement

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