In addition to learning how to use communications, assignments and assessments, content development, and course management tools associated with BC's Learning Management System, faculty will also learn new strategies, create collaborative group activities, and apply instructional design principles as they develop e-learning courses.
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Course Descriptions in the E-learning Professor Theme:

Adding Real-Time Interactivity to Your Online Classes (Recommended for all online faculty)

Prerequisite: Must already have an existing online course.

“Adding Real-Time Interactivity to Your Online Classes” is a two-hour workshop for all faculty who are currently teaching online. Real-time learning (a.k.a. synchronous learning) allows you to add meaningful interaction and a personal touch to your online classes. Wimba Classroom is an Internet-based meeting tool that BC recently licensed and is easily integrated into Blackboard so you can meet with your students “live” online. These real-time sessions are great for orientations, exam reviews, virtual office hours, peer critiques, tutoring, and software demonstrations. With an inexpensive web cam, your students can hear and see you, and you can upload and show PowerPoint presentations, share all types of files, explore web sites, text chat, and use a white board. Best of all, Wimba is easy to use and students absolutely love the opportunity to meet you and the other students in their class, and have their questions answered in real time. And for those students who cannot attend a live session, you can record your sessions so they can watch later.

This workshop will be conducted online via Wimba so faculty can see what it’s like to participate in a live online meeting, practice the various tools, and to minimize driving costs and attendance time required. Faculty can log on from any Internet-connected computer but must have a microphone in order to participate. Attendance will be limited to 6 people per session to maximize hands-on opportunities.
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Web-enhancing On-Campus Classes
"Web-enhancing On-Campus Classes" is an introductory workshop for faculty who want to explore how to utilize BC's Learning Management System to enhance their on-campus classes. In just 3 hours, faculty will use the system's point-and-click interface to learn and use effective tools and strategies such as communicating with students with Announcements and Mail, engaging students will Discussions, posting course materials for students, posting and receiving student assignments electronically with Assignments, and providing students immediate feedbacks with Grade Book.

Register for this workshop to find out how you can utilize BC's Learning Management System to enhance your on-campus classes!
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Getting Ready to Teach Online
"Teaching Online" is a workshop required of faculty who plan to teach/facilitate, for the first time, a blended/hybrid course or a fully online course that has already been developed by another faculty. The workshop is delivered entirely online over a period of 4 weeks, and is facilitated by BC e-learning faculty associates who are experienced online instructors. Faculty will develop both technological and pedagogical skills and knowledge necessary to teach online by working through a series of learning modules including: Introduction to Teaching Online, Exploring Course Tools, Exploring Instructor Tools, Building Community through Discussion, Building Community through Email, and more.

Upon successfully completing all learning modules and achieving all learning outcomes associated with each module, faculty will receive 12 professional development credit hours and will be officially certified to teach existing blended/hybrid courses or fully online courses.

Are you considering teaching online? Register for this online workshop and find out if teaching online is right for you!
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Building Quality Online Courses
"Building Quality Online Courses" is a workshop required of faculty who plan to develop and teach their own blended or fully online courses. The workshop is delivered online with optional on-campus sessions over a period of 4 weeks, and is facilitated by BC e-learning faculty associates who are experienced e-learning professors. Faculty will develop both technological and pedagogical skills and knowledge necessary to develop blended/hybrid or online courses that meet BC's Quality Standards for e-Learning Course Design, as well as to effectively teach/facilitate these e-learning courses.

Upon successfully completing all learning modules and achieving all learning outcomes associated with each module, faculty will receive 16 professional development credit hours and will be officially certified to develop AND teach blended courses or fully online courses.

Want to develop and teach your own blended or fully online courses? Register for this workshop to learn all the skills you need to be an e-learning professor!
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