[Grad-Cap Icon] Training

Seeing is believing! or so the saying goes! Faculty who are considering teaching online find seeing actual courses and hearing them described can be especially valuable. Discussing the online instructional strategies that really work with the people using them is especially helpful. Dr. McLeod`s courses are Adult and Juvenile Justice Policy & Teaching, Learning and Technology in Higher Ed. While both of these courses are radically different, being taught in two separate schools, both are related in a couple distinct ways. I am teaching them both this semester. Both are completely open online and do not use Blackboard or any school supported learning management system (LMS). Adult and Juvenile Justice Policy is taught in the School of Social Work Masters of Social Work program and is a service-learning course where students are actively engaged in individualized digital activism projects and course content is delivered in a means relevant to assess and inform their own projects. Teaching, Learning and Technology in Higher Education is delivered through the Graduate School`s Preparing Future Faculty Program, is co-taught, and is focused on helping doctoral and post-doctoral students expand their ideas about teaching practice in the modern age. Student engagement approaches for both classes are very different, but both courses are open and can be further examined at these links: http://project710.blogspot.com/ http://wp.vcu.edu/grad602/ Join this conversation about what David McLeod has found to be essential components of an online course and how collaboration made his course successful. This is a brown bag lunch format. Bring your lunch and a friend.