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THE Distance Learning
Workshop for Your Creative Teleteaching: World Wide Web, Interactive Television,
or in Combination
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This is the most popular workshop designed for new instructors or instructors
with limited experience using the merging technologies of the World Wide
Web, the Internet, interactive television, audioconferencing, and print.
Generic competencies applicable to all of the new technologies are emphasized. |
THE Distance Learning Workshop for Your Creative
Teleteaching in the Public Schools: World Wide Web, Interactive Television,
or in Combination
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This workshop is geared to public school teachers at the elementary and
secondary levels. It introduces teachers to techniques to combine state-of-the-art
technologies of Internet, World Wide Web, and interactive television into
top-quality courses conducted in real and delayed time. If the school(s)
uses primarily compressed video, emphasis is placed on this delivery technology. |
Creative Teleteaching: Bringing Imagination
to the Distance Learning Classroom (Advanced Telecourse Design)
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This workshop is designed for instructors who have had several years of
experience working with distance learning. New developments that are related
to all of the delivery technologies are shared. The workshop concentrates
on the design of interactive strategies to involve students at field sites,
visual thinking, and the design of a complete telelesson plan and study
guide in the specialty area of the instructor. |
Teleteaching with Interactive Television and
the Merging Technologies
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This is also one of the most popular workshops. It deals with all of the
distance learning delivery technologies of audioconferencing, interactive
television, Internet and World Wide Web, and print, but concentrates more
on interactive television. Strategies for integrating the Internet and World
Wide Web with interactive television are addressed. Participants have the
opportunity to practice presentation techniques. |
Presentation Skills for Interactive Television
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Verbal and non-verbal presentation skills are practiced by teams of participants
on videotape with follow-up critique. A variety of strategies are explored,
such as developing a personal signature, powerful openings and closings,
use of visual analogy, movement, dress, creating a positive image, and developing
an effective teaching "stage." |
Designing an Institutional Training Program for
Distance Learning Instructors
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The need for instructor training in quality distance learning programs has
been documented by those already well established in the field of distance
learning. Topics to be addressed include how distance learning teaching
differs from traditional teaching and what new skills and competencies will
be needed for instructors to develop quality telecourses. Each participant
will outline a training program for their instructors. |
Essential Skills of Teleteaching Conducted
at a Distance in Real and Delayed Time
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This custom designed workshop that combines any of the skills presented
in the workshops is presented via a variety of delivery technologies (interactive
television, videotape, audioconferencing, WWW, Internet, and print). The
combination of delivery systems will depend on the facilities available
at the host institution(s). |
Designing Interactive Telecourses with the Merging
Technologies for the Health Professions
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All of the skills of the first two workshops are included in this workshop.
Where it differs is in the use of a performance-based/competency-based instructional
model and the development of laboratory modules for use at field sites. |
A Special Workshop for the Traditional Classroom
Environment:
Essential Skills of Traditional College Teaching:
The Art of the Lecture
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Individual institutions choose from a variety of traditional teaching skills
including such areas as syllabus preparation, verbal and non-verbal presentation
skills, creating an exciting learning environment, attention focusing strategies,
motivational techniques, and many more. |
Custom Designed Workshops
to Meet Your Special Requirements
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This workshop can include any of the skills described and skills that have
not been addressed, such as the use of student response pads, touch screen,
and desktop conferencing. Additional staff with specialized areas of expertise
are usually involved in these customized workshops. Contact EDA for more
information. |
One-Day Workshops
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Distance Learning Issues for the Busy Administrator:
An Overview
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What is distance learning? Where has it been? Where is it today? Where is
it heading tomorrow? These questions, coupled with mission planning, instructor
issues, cost analysis, copyright issues, instructor training and support
services, and a host of other concerns, are the focus of this workshop.
The objective is to provide the broadest coverage of distance learning issues
in the shortest period of time, with enough information and references for
follow-up after the workshop. |
Managing a New Distance Learning Program: Policy
and Administrative Considerations
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The focus of this short workshop is the decision to create a distance learning
program or not to get involved. Participants concentrate on the rationale
and justification for such a program and what policy issues need to be addressed
for survival in a competitive market. |
Creative Thinking with Visual Organizers for
Teleteaching
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Through the development of digital technology, all of the distance learning
technologies will merge into a single delivery system over the next 5-10
years. As we move through these transition years, instructors will need
to think visually in order to create visually-based telecourses. This is
a valid skill to be mastered since interactive television and the WWW are
visual media. Through the use of visual indicators, participants will learn
how to combine words, graphics, pictures, animations, word pictures, video
clips, and other visual strategies to create exciting interactive telecourses. |
Powerful PowerPoint Presentations: Visual Thinking
Beyond Bullets
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PowerPoint is the most popular presentation system today. Participants will
learn to create keyword-based presentations and then to evolve them into
word pictures, progressing from geometric shapes connected with lines and
arrows to the use of clip art, animations, and other graphics. Additional
presentation packages will be explored. |
Distance Learning Short
Courses (5-15 Days)
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These special short courses are created for specific
institutions or consortia of institutions. They combine skills from all
of the workshops. Specific skills to be included are determined by the particpating
institution(s). Continuing education units can be made available through
the institution. |
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