Rich Media Instruction - The Top Six Reasons Faculty Choose to Teach Online

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Rich Media Instruction - The Top Six Reasons Faculty Choose to Teach Online

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Join York University's Diane Zorn and Sonic Foundry's Sean Brown as they explore how online, rich-media teaching can be easy and effective.

The presentation aims to empower participants to create viable online learning environments that facilitate learning, community, and self-sufficiency for students and instructors with minimal time and energy and maximum results. This presentation concludes with a Q & A period

Topics include:

the needs of today’s learners;
key technology and distance education trends;
the top six reasons faculty are choosing to teach online; and
pedagogical goals versus technology for its own sake.

Common excuses for not taking advantage of online, rich-media teaching are debunked, including:

threats to standards, jobs and quality of faculty;
the notion that some skills can’t be taught online;overestimates of the time, support and training needed to make online teaching work.

Answers to the following questions will be provided:

why teach online?
why embrace rich media?
can students learn better online?
is rich media a tool that can drive students to higher-order skills learning?

Presented By:
Diane Zorn
Diane Zorn, PhD, designs, implements and teaches fully online, rich media courses using Mediasite technology and audio and video podcasting. She was the second university instructor in Canada to offer video podcasts of her lectures. Her student-centered, radically interactive course design is based on her theory of Enactive Education. Her approach to online education allows students to customize their learning and "learn on the go" in reciprocally evolving and adaptive learning environments. Her publications include: Diane Zorn and Kelly Parke, Using video streaming in an online, rich-media course to promote deep learning while educating for social change in Streaming Media Delivery in Higher Education: Methods and Outcomes, IGI Global.

Moderated By:
Sean Brown
Sean Brown, Vice President, Sonic Foundry. Sean's core focus is simplifying digital media to improve use and outcomes. Before coming to Sonic Foundry in 2002, Sean developed 17 years of product management and education business development experience at IBM, Apple and Oracle. He is a past president and board member of the Hopkins Foundation for Innovation in Education. Today, Sean also hosts Sonic Foundry's popular, monthly best practices webinar series for higher education.