Jossey-Bass Online Teaching & Learning Conference - October 2009

Randy Garrison and I were asked by Jossey-Bass to be part of their annual online teaching and learning conference. The focus of our session was intended to be on our Blended Learning in Higher Education book that we had published with Jossey-Bass. I was very impressed with the assistance we received to prepare for our session. Both Jonathan Finkelstein from the Learning-Times and Susan Manning provided us with extensive feedback on how to make our session interactive. Text was minimized on all the slides and activities for the audience were designed throughout the presentation. We had several polling activities (e.g., previous experience with blended learning, future predictions about blended learning) and text entry activities (e.g., advantages and challenges of blended learning). During our session, I was impressed with how these activities engaged the audience and how they also used the chat window for further dialogue with each other. The PowerPoint slides from our session are available online as well as a recording of our workshop (unfortunately, you need a logon and password to access the recording).