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Essential Skills of Teleteaching Conducted at a Distance in Real and Delayed Time

A TWO-DAY WORKSHOP

 

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Introduction

Experience distance learning by actively participating in a distance learning workshop taught with the existing delivery technologies. Learn in real time with interactive television, audioconferencing, and the WWW. Learn asynchronously with videotape correlated with interactive study guides, WWW bulletin boards and chat rooms, and computer disks.

The participating institution will receive a training package consisting of:

  Several videotapes,
  A Participant Handbook (with copyright release to reproduce one copy for each participant), that coordinates the entire workshop,
  A copy of the text, Teaching at a Distance with the Merging Technologies: An Instructional Systems Approach, by Thomas E. Cyrs, with Eugenia D. Conway,
  A floppy disk (one PC format, one Mac format) that demonstrates the evolution of word pictures, and
  A floppy disk (one PC format, one Mac format) that demonstrates the use of course materials on the WWW.

Workshop Delivery Technologies

This two-day workshop will be taught in real and delayed time through:

One hour via live satellite (if available on the campus)
Two hours of live interactive compressed video (if available on the campus)
Two hours of live audioconferencing
One hour of a WWW chat room
Unlimited e-mail and voice-mail communications during the workshop period
Five hours of on-site workshop sessions using the Participant Handbook in conjunction with the videotapes
One hour of demonstrations using floppy disks to demonstrate the evolution of the word picture and use of the WWW for course components
One site visit by one of the workshop instructors

Specific Topics

1. Using a delivery technology selection matrix based on learning
2. A performance-based teaching and learning model
3. Domains and cognitive levels of learning
4. Differences between teaching at a distance and traditional teaching
5. How to think creatively with visual organizers
6. How to modify courses for distance teaching
7. The five components of a telelesson
8. Components of an effective Web page
9. Favorite URLs
10. Some policy issues for instructors
11. How to use the Internet and World Wide Web in telecourses
12. 150+ activities for use at field sites
13. Design of word pictures
14. What the research says about distance learning
15. How to design effective handouts
16. Questioning skills
17. How to look good on television
18. Decision criteria for use of different delivery technologies
19. Verbal and non-verbal presentation techniques for interactive television
20. How to use a glossary of distance learning terminology
21. Sources of information on distance learning
22. Storytelling skills
23. Designing the telesyllabus
24. How to plan and organize a telecourse
25. 76 ways to open and close an interactive television telelesson with impact
26. Use of visual analogies
27. How to develop your personal signature on interactive television
28. How to dress and move on interactive television
29. Alternative delivery formats for distance learning
30. 17 motivators that work
31. Quality questions for response pads
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Plymouth MA 02360
Telephone: 508/224-6359
E-mail: tcyrs@netway.com
This page last updated Sunday, 7 January 2001