Creating Online Communities for Higher Education
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New Approaches to Professional Development, Faculty Support, Learning and Collaboration though Online Communities |
Learn the latest in designing and facilitating online communities for professional development, faculty support, student learning and collaboration in higher education Join us for a four-week online workshop on how to create and grow communities that support true relationship building, learning, collaboration, and knowledge sharing.
This workshop addresses the social processes, roles and approaches that engage people together online, as well as the tools and technologies that can support these approaches. Whether you are using course management systems, e-learning systems, integrated collaborative environments, or a collection of ad hoc, open source tools, this workshop provides you with the knowledge and resources for creating engaging collaborative online communities.
A step-by-step community design guide is provided to all workshop participants. Workshop activities are project-based, as participants work through their own community needs and projects. Participation by institutional teams is encouraged, but not required.
By participating, you will:
- Gain access to some of the latest research on online communities
- Obtain practical tools for designing, cultivating, and assessing online communities
- Practice with new methods and approaches for engaging community members and communicating with key community stakeholders
- Join together with other attendees to network, build new relationships, and share best practices
For four weeks, you will work with your institutional teammates and/or other workshop participants to carry out projects and create work products that will be immediately useful to you, regardless of where you are in the community development cycle. Plan on spending a minimum of three hours a week for the workshop. Those who participate intensely and use the workshop to develop community functional prototypes will spend up to six to eight hours per week.
The weekly agenda for the four-week long 2005 Online Communities Workshop includes:
- self-paced viewing of narrated presentations
- participation in a weekly scheduled hour and a half online meeting and teleconference
- online discussions and/or teleconferences with assigned project teams
- completion of community design worksheets and small projects
Early Bird Registration
Deadline: September 19, 2005 Registration Fee: $349 |
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