Synchronous Online & Blended Education Best Practices for Instructors
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this comprehensive and engaging course, you will be able to:
- Review the main differences between synchronous online education, bichronous online education, and blended education
- Discuss the peer-reviewed research literature on the learning outcomes produced by asynchronous vs. synchronous vs. bichronous vs. blended learning
- Describe the most common technological requirements for instructors and students to successfully participate in synchronous online learning
- Master the 4 core elements of synchronous online course design
- Facilitate synchronous online course sessions (incl. how to use key interactive features of web conferencing tools)
- Create effective assessments and evaluations to measure learning outcomes for synchronous online students
- Review the 4 main bichronous learning sequences that combine asynchronous and synchronous elements
- Compare the Complement Model, the Replacement Model, and the Enhancement Model of blended learning
Instructor
Florence Martin, PhD currently serves as Professor in Learning, Design and Technology in the Department of Teacher Education and Learning Sciences at North Carolina State University. Author of over 100 peer-reviewed journal articles, 2 books (published by Springer and IAP Publishing, respectively), and hundreds of conference presentations, Dr. Martin’s research has received over $2.6 million USD in national and state grants from agencies including the National Science Foundation and the National Security Agency. After receiving her PhD and Master’s degrees in Educational Technology from Arizona State University, she served as a Full Professor at University of North Carolina Charlotte and a tenured Associate Professor at University of North Carolina Wilmington for 15 years. Throughout this time, she won awards for teaching, research, and service from Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT), Online Learning Consortium (OLC), United States Distance Learning Association (USDLA), and Professional, Continuing and Online Education Association (UPCEA). Following service as the AECT President of both their Multimedia Production Division as well as their Division of Distance Learning, Dr. Martin is now the AERA Division C Section Chair for Engineering and Computer Science, on the board for North Carolina Virtual Public Schools, and is a Senior Associate Editor for Online Learning Journal.
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