Bb Administrator

Addressing diverse needs through online orientation experiences
Weds. 8:30
See Handout.  They’re from Excelsior College, formerly Regents College in Albany NY.  They were an entity of the state but no longer.  They have 33,000 students but no buildings, classes, faculty offices.  The whole deal is at a distance.  They are one of the top educators [...]

. . . in large, lecture only courses.
Patricia Dinneen – Inst. Designer
First let me suggest that this is the last session on the last day and there was nothing else available.
The speaker works at George Washington University in DC. They have lecture-based classes with sections. In addition to the instructor there is a [...]

Erin —-, head of instructional design. Exemplary course design winner.
University of North FL – Jackonsonville. 16,000 students, 500+ faculty.
1200 instructors on Bb, 1900+ active users
They create Bb templates that can be used across multiple courses. Any Bb course can be used as a template for another.
They have a Bb orientation course (not unlike the last [...]

Wayne and Karen Jacobs
LeTourneau University
They ask us to discuss good experiences with education, and bad experiences.  Some of the good were when the instructors were involved, and bad was when they were not.
So then we play Jeopardy with some very easy questions to answer.  Answers to question.  In an event, people who answered correctly got [...]

First guy is an instructional tech from a minute Catholic school in TX
Trainer role changes from sage on stage to ringmaster

Instructors share ideas
Peer to peer learning
Ask specific questions
One slide per question
Discuss and give prizes (?!)
Homework opportunity

Every ten minutes take a break.  (you’ve got to be kidding)
Second guy is a logistics instructor from US Army College [...]

How can I create a rubric that helps instructional designers, professors, and students?
See the handout “Let’s talk about writing learning objectives or learning outcomes.” She has an example of a learning objective, and then asks us to write our own.
The example is: Given a French sentence written in the past or present tense, the second [...]