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Teaching Without Walls: Life Beyond the Lecture

ELI Web Seminar, September 14, 2009 1:00 p.m. ET (12:00 p.m. CT, 11:00 a.m. MT, 10:00 a.m. PT); runs one hour

Teaching Without Walls: Life Beyond the Lecture

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Michelle Pacansky-BrockMichelle Pacansky-Brock
Director, Online and Hybrid Support Center
California State University, East Bay

Michelle Pacansky-Brock is a college educator with expertise in face-to-face and online teaching and supporting faculty in the use of emerging technologies. Her approach to online and face-to-face instruction involves a student-centered learning community with highly collaborative, personalized learning experiences. At the heart of her online course design are emerging technologies that enhance social presence and foster online community including blogs, podcasts, VoiceThread, and personalized video/audio feedback. In 2007, she was honored with the Sloan-C Excellence in Online Teaching Award for her outstanding pedagogical achievements in online instruction and the National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development Award for Teaching Excellence. Her innovations in online teaching were showcased in a national article about e-learning in U.S. News and World Report and her recent research demonstrating the learning effectiveness of VoiceThread has been featured in many publications, blogs, and podcasts. You are invited to visit her blog at http://mpbreflections.blogspot.com.

Summary

Malcolm Brown, EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative director, will moderate this web seminar with Michelle Pacansky-Brock, where she’ll pull back the curtain on the classroom of the future, exploring a semester-long teaching experiment in which a class of community college art history students engaged in a technology-rich, web-enhanced, inclusive learning environment. You won't find any lectures in this classroom: they were all made available to students through Blackboard in the form of PDFs and podcasts, giving them options for how they learned. From there, students engaged in dynamic online modules that included VoiceThread discussions, all completed outside the classroom. The course design allowed for class time to be left freely available for discussions and other active learning activities like a "Wiki Challenge" led by fearless students on a quest for extra credit.

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