[Hidden-tech] Three new online course offerings

[Elaine Garofoli]

Friends and Colleagues,
I thought you might want to take advantage of three new courses that the
Marlboro College Graduate Center (VT) will be offering in its upcoming
trimester beginning May 2.

MSIT606 Open Source Content Management Systems
Meets on the following Saturdays from 8:30 ­ 11:30am:
May 3, 17, 31; June 14, 28; July 12; August 2
($1,890 for 3 graduate credits, or $450 to audit)
The key to a successful website in 2008 is dynamic content. One of the best
tools to enable users to easily update their own site is the Content
Management System. In the past, these tools were proprietary and expensive
but today they are available for free.  In this 14-week course, you will
learn how to leverage the power of open source content management systems as
well as how to create an empowered and engaged online community.

·      Hands-on section (using Joomla!) gives training in all of the
techniques you will need.
·      Discussions will focus on the anthropology of successful online
communities.
·      Classes meet every other weekend to make it easier for working
professionals like you. There is also an online-only option.
·      Take it for graduate-level credit or audit it just to get the
information.
·      HTML experience required; CSS experience a plus.

MAT615 Facilitating Online Collaborative Learning
Meets on the following Saturdays from 8:30 ­ 11:30am:
May 3, 17, 31; June 14, 28; July 12; August 2 (The first and the last class
meet optionally f2f; the others are all conducted online)
($1,590 for 3 graduate credits, or $450 to audit)
This course explores the learner-centered teaching strategy of collaboration
in the online and blended classroom. Teaching and learning online in
particular, lends itself to learner-centered and learner-focused pedagogy,
and collaborative activity is the essential component of this approach.
Course content will include the topics of learning communities and
collaboration, collaborative learning techniques, cooperative, small group,
and team-based learning, and collaborative assessment. Specifically,
students will have opportunities to explore some collaborative software
tools, to implement a variety of collaborative learning techniques, to
collaboratively assess learning activities, and to create collaborative
learning communities.
 
It is assumed that students will have a solid grasp of instructional theory
and instructional design, and are conversant in constructivist forms of
instruction.

 
MAT616 Teaching and Learning in Virtual Worlds
Meets online between May 2 and August 9
($1,590 for 3 graduate credits, or $450 to audit)
"Teaching and Learning in Virtual Worlds" is a new course at the Grad Center
in which participants will explore a variety of 2D and 3D virtual worlds
including those designed for children. You will examine research and theory
about games and simulations and their pedagogical implications, consider the
social, interpersonal, cultural, instructional, technical implications of
virtual worlds, and draw your own conclusions about the potential for using
virtual worlds within your teaching situation.


For more information and to register on a Continuing Education basis, visit
www.gradcenter.marlboro.edu/academics/continuing_ed.html
<http://www.gradcenter.marlboro.edu/academics/continuing_ed.html > or call
Joe Heslin at 888-258-5665.


Elaine
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Elaine Garofoli
MAT Program Director
Marlboro College Graduate Center
28 Vernon Street, Suite 120
Brattleboro, VT 05301
Phone: 413.256.1744
Yahoo messenger: mcgcelaine1
AIM: uulainey
SKYPE: egarofoli
egarofoli at gradcenter.marlboro.edu

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