13045

13045

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

Rob Moore, UNC-Chapel Hill School of Government, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA, robmoore@sog.unc.edu
 * It Does Not Have to Be a Headache! Professional Distance Education Content Delivery In a Nutshell **

The UNC School of Government (SOG) provides training and continuing education to local and state public officials in North Carolina. One way that the SOG is able to fulfill its mission is through its distance education offerings, which include webinars and e-learning modules. The Instructional Support team within the SOG Information Technology Division is responsible for this service and has offered it more than 100 times. The NC State Contract for web conferencing is for Adobe Connect Pro. We are using this resource to host and deliver all of our distance education content. At the School of Government, we offer both asynchronous e-learning modules and synchronous webinars – often to hundreds of users at a time. During the presentation, members of the Instructional Support team will share their experiences with developing content in collaboration with faculty. We will share how we orchestrate a high quality user experience comprising sound, design, interactivity and support. We will present lessons learned and best practices for using the Adobe Connect Pro system for distance education content delivery. As a part of the presentation, attendees will see how the Instructional Support team uses simple techniques to successfully deliver hundreds of webinars and e-learning modules to diverse target groups. We will discuss how attendees can implement these suggestions at their own institutions – using Adobe Connect or similar web conferencing solutions.

This presentation will be held in Adobe Connect.

For full instructions about accessing the room for this session , see:

 @http://bit.ly/tcc2013-sog-instructions

Plan to enter the room 5-10 minutes before the start of the session so that you will have time to test your machine for required software.

 To join this session in Adobe Connect DURING the conference:

 @https://unc.ncgovconnect.com/tcc2013-using-adobe-connect/

To test your connection BEFORE the session:

 @https://unc.ncgovconnect.com/common/help/en/support/meeting_test.htm

//Interactivity // <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> In our presentation we will demonstrate the different ways in which we are using web conferencing and provide suggestions for those interested in starting or improving their webinar and e-learning module content delivery. During the presentation, we will make use of several interactive examples. For instance, we will demonstrate how one can use polling and quizzing in either webinars or self-paced e-learning modules.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">All Audiences <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Distance education online learning Adobe Connect e-learning modules webinars