Empowering Success in the Online Environment

Workshop Description:

This hands-on workshop will explore a range of issues related to the support and development of faculty involved in online education. Faculty are the most valuable asset to a successful online learning program. Understanding their needs and developing the appropriate levels of service is a critical link to a satisfied online-faculty. This session will review existing strategies to assist faculty in the management of the online classroom as well as generate new strategies for addressing the design and development of the online classroom.

Objectives:

• Participants will review existing strategies for addressing development needs of faculty involved in online learning.
• Participants will formulate new approaches to serving the development needs of faculty in the areas of pedagogical and technical support, compensation, and student support.

Intended Audience: Support staff, administrators and faculty involved in designing and delivering distance learning programs.

Presenter: Lawrence Ragan, Ph.D., Penn State University

Lawrence C. Ragan is the Director of Instructional Design and Development for Distance Education and Penn State's World Campus initiative. Dr. Ragan is charged with directing the design and development of instructional materials for learners external to a Penn State campus. He is responsible for the integration of a wide range of electronic communications technologies into the instructional process including web-based systems, computer mediated communications, and interactive compressed video. Dr. Ragan coordinates the design and delivery of faculty development seminars and training programs for Distance Education and the World Campus. Dr. Ragan has presented internationally on the topics of instructional design, multimedia development, faculty development issues and instructional design for distance education.