Blackboard Innovative Teaching SeriesA webinar event to train your faculty on pedagogy that promotes both educator efficiency and improved learning outcomes in an online or blended delivery.
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Subject Line: Invitation to attend faculty training webinars from BlackboardBody:
Dear Faculty Member,
With support from Blackboard’s global community, <Institution Name> is partnering with Blackboard to bring you a faculty training webinar series entitled The Blackboard Innovative Teaching Series (BITS). This program will bring best practices and evolved online pedagogy training to you in a concise and effective series consisting of monthly training webinars that have been designed for faculty members and will be led by faculty members from higher ed institutions around the country.
It’s not enough just to port your offline classes into a course shell. This online modality affords an opportunity for greater connectedness, a stronger sense of classroom community, interaction between students for peer-to-peer learning and even greater educator efficiency; so you can spend more time teaching and less time dealing with administrative load.
Who should attend?
All faculty members are invited to join, regardless of your technical know-how or experience using Blackboard or other learning management solutions. These webinars are designed to share innovative practices — content that is applicable to faculty of all levels and disciplines. See the schedule and register for the BITS series below. Please note that space is limited for this webinar series.
The Blackboard Innovative Teaching Series, 2012
Session #1: Wikis, Blogs, Forums, Journals—Which One Do I Use & Why?
This session is designed to assist educators as they try to determine which Blackboard tools will deliver the desired outcome in various teaching situations.
- Time & Date: 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm ET, Monday, February 27, 2012
- Presenter: Deborah Prickett, Jackson State University
This session will show real examples of how adaptive release is used to guide students through your course, provide feedback and even provide additional content outside the scope of the course by using Blackboard’s adaptive release tools.
- Time & Date: 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm ET, Tuesday, March 27, 2012
- Presenter: Paige Brook – Jeffiers, Kentucky Community and Technical College System
This session will show examples of the tools, and techniques that an experienced online instructor used with great success to raise interactivity and learning in an online course by adding video and media.
- Time & Date: 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm ET, Monday, April 23, 2012
- Presenter: Julie Rorabaugh, Cowley College
This session will highlight a variety of features found in most course management systems that can be effectively utilized to reduce cheating in an online testing environment.
- Time & Date: 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm ET, Tuesday, May 29, 2012
- Presenter: Brian Morgan, Marshall University
This session will focus on your role as the instructor and the teaching techniques that will stimulate a student’s curiosity and encourage active learning.
- Time & Date: 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm ET, Monday, June 25, 2012
- Presenter: Katherine Dowdell, Des Moines Area Community College
This session will explore the pros and cons of using Rubrics, how Rubrics employ Chickering and Gamson’s Seven Principles of Good Teaching Practice, and how the use of Rubrics will benefit your students.
- Time & Date: 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm ET, Tuesday, July 24, 2012
- Presenter: Katherine C. Riley, BS, Goldfarb School of Nursing at Barnes Jewish College
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