13035

13035

General Session - Conference Presentation and Interactive Activity Only (40 minutes, no formal paper)

Michael McKeever, Santa Rosa Junior College, California, USA, mmckeever@santarosa.edu
 * An Appropriate Alternative to MOOCs for Community Colleges **

Is Massive too big for you and your students? Need a bit more control over who is in your classes and how your content is shared online? There is a viable, well tested and free-for-CA-instructors tool that you can use instead of following the MOOC herd. I have a bias about distance education influenced by market valuation and personal experience. And in this session, I’ll tell you what it is… Adopting and adapting tools such as Blackboard Collaborate, WebEx, and Adobe Connect, allow you to enhance your current classes to reap the benefits of a MOOC without their downside. Learn how to create an environment of enhanced student success providing them with the tools that to fit their learning style and personal needs as they change over the duration of a semester, year or two year program.

//Interactivity // Attendees will participate in a series of exercises and activities in Blackboard Collaborate with some of my current students. Use and observation of the tools and methods will inspire and show faculty how to integrate this or similar programs into their existing courses with relative ease.

Novice, Intermediate SLO distance innovation