Event Title
WebCT, PowerPoint, and Tegrity: What works, for whom, and why?
Location
Assembly Building II, Computer Lab
Format
Workshop
Start Date
16-1-2010 1:30 PM
End Date
16-1-2010 3:00 PM
Abstract
PURPOSE: This workshop seeks to help instructors realize the potential of emerging technologies for online learning. Instructional resources such as Blackboard or WebCT for organizing a course, PowerPoint for delivering slides and narrated text, and Tegrity for showing animated images of the instructor teaching the course, are increasingly the norm. Technological advances continue to outstrip our theoretical understanding of how they work (i.e. Mayer, 1997; Reiber, 1990). Models of best practices must take into account the boundary conditions of the effects of multimedia tools on learning.
TEACHING METHODS: A wide range of teaching styles and methods are demonstrated using WebCT, PowerPoint, and Tegrity. Multimedia combinations afford different types of learning among different types of learners. Principles of multimedia design from metaanalytic studies by Mayer (2009) will be described as they relate to instructor design choices.
IMPACT: Online learners can anticipate ever increasing use of multimedia techniques for enhancing learning. Online instructors must keep informed about ongoing analyses of the impact of various combinations of content, media, and learners.
WebCT, PowerPoint, and Tegrity: What works, for whom, and why?
Assembly Building II, Computer Lab
PURPOSE: This workshop seeks to help instructors realize the potential of emerging technologies for online learning. Instructional resources such as Blackboard or WebCT for organizing a course, PowerPoint for delivering slides and narrated text, and Tegrity for showing animated images of the instructor teaching the course, are increasingly the norm. Technological advances continue to outstrip our theoretical understanding of how they work (i.e. Mayer, 1997; Reiber, 1990). Models of best practices must take into account the boundary conditions of the effects of multimedia tools on learning.
TEACHING METHODS: A wide range of teaching styles and methods are demonstrated using WebCT, PowerPoint, and Tegrity. Multimedia combinations afford different types of learning among different types of learners. Principles of multimedia design from metaanalytic studies by Mayer (2009) will be described as they relate to instructor design choices.
IMPACT: Online learners can anticipate ever increasing use of multimedia techniques for enhancing learning. Online instructors must keep informed about ongoing analyses of the impact of various combinations of content, media, and learners.
Speaker's Credentials
SPEAKER: Sarah Ransdell has taught and conducted research about educational practices for learning for over 25 years. Her PhD is in cognitive psychology and she has designed online hybrid courses for the last 4 years with a special interest in multimedia interactions with learning.