Digital Teaching & Learning Series:The Academic Development Programme
Support and Success of the Online Learner
Attend a taster session of Blackboard’s Digital Teaching and Learning Series.
About the session
The 2019 Digital Teaching and Learning Webinar Series is designed to give you an in-depth taster of the different components of the Academic Development Programme.
This webinar will focus on how to keep your learners on track and help them to succeed in online courses and will cover the following:
- Why is being an effective online teacher important?
- How to help learners in being a successful online student
- What are the effective strategies to support today’s online learners?
- How accessible content and universal design principles impact the digital learner
- How you can support learners to be successful
We'll be organising future taster sessions during 2019. Keep a look out here or visit the Blackboard Digital Teaching & Learning website for further information on the certification series.
Who is this webinar for?
The session is for professionals engaged in teaching and learning in a digital environment including those who have a managerial responsibility for Professional Development.
Attendees will be those who are responsible for the staff professional development such as:
- Heads of academic staff development, educational development managers, trainers and facilitators who deliver an array of learning and teaching developments for their staff.
- Teachers, lecturers, and course tutors who would like to get a taster of the programme.
- Those who would simply like to know more about becoming certified and the benefits of certification.
Speaker
Mike Highfield
Principal Educational Consultant, Blackboard Consulting
Mike Highfield is Principal Educational Consultant at Blackboard with over 15 years of experience in online learning. He worked as an Instructional Designer at the University of Bristol where he led the design, development and deployment of online courses for researchers across all faculties of 3 universities (Bath, Bristol & Exeter). He was also an Education Advisor and MOOC Production Manager at Exeter University, where he led the development of their first MOOC in partnership with the Open University’s FutureLearn MOOC provider. Mike is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and is a regular contributor and subject matter expert for the professional development training of academics.
Why Should You Join?
Find out how to support the delivery and compliance of the highest standards of teaching and learning.
Discover how to increase the return on your institutional technology investment.
Learn first-hand how to develop a community of academics who are confident and consistent in pedagogy delivery using technology.
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Faculty development for online instruction enhances student success.”
Academic Senate For California Community Colleges