Blackboard Innovative Teaching Series (BITS)

With support from Blackboard’s global community, Kean University
Blackboard Support is partnering with Blackboard to bring you a faculty training webinar series entitled The Blackboard Innovative Teaching
Series (BITS). 

This program brings best practices and evolved online pedagogy
training to you in a concise and effective series consisting of four,
30-minute "snack-sized" training webinars that have been designed for faculty members and the sessions are led by faculty members from higher ed institutions around the country. 

It’s not enough just to port your offline classes into a course shell. 
This online modality affords an opportunity for greater connectedness,
a stronger sense of classroom community, interaction between students
for peer-to-peer learning and even greater educator efficiency; so you can spend more time teaching and less time dealing with administrative load. 

Who should view?  All faculty members are invited to view the presentations, regardless of your technical know-how or experience using Blackboard or other learning management solutions.  These webinars are designed to share innovative
practices -- content that is applicable to faculty of all levels and disciplines.  

You must register with your valid email address to have access to the On Demand sessions.

The Blackboard Innovative Teaching Series, Spring 2011

Theme: Student Engagement in the Online Classroom

Click on the links below to register.

Session #1 Strategies to Engage Students
This session examines how the course developer and instructor teach students writing strategies while employing the same strategies in “writing the course.”
·         Time & Date: On Demand
·         Presenter: Carla Bradley, Faculty Member & Coordinator of Online Instructional Development, Ozarks Technical Community College

Session #2 Ten Ideas to Help Students be More Engaged in Online Classes
This session provides straight-forward methods on how to help your students be engaged in your online classroom. 
·         Time & Date: On Demand
·         Presenter: Judy Hammock, Faculty Member, University of Nevada, Reno

Session #3 Assessing Student Engagement for Continuous Course Improvement
This session shares broad strategies for monitoring and assessing engagement throughout your courses, as well as provides tips and tricks to implement quickly.
·         Time & Date: On Demand
·         Presenter: Melissa Loble, Faculty Member, Pepperdine University

Session #4 Efficient Collaboration and Team Building in the Distance Learning Environment
This session explores strategies for efficiently promoting student collaboration and successfully building teams in the online environment.
·         Time & Date: On Demand
·         Presenter: Donna Jones, Ed.D, Senior Pedagogical Advisor, Assessment, Blackboard, Inc.

We hope that you will take advantage of this on demand faculty webinar series to enhance your training on pedagogy that promotes both educator efficiency and improved learning outcomes in an online or blended delivery.