PODCAST – BONUS FEATURE!
Engaging the Online Learner: Activities and Resources for Creative Instruction
with Rita-Marie Conrad and J. Ana Donaldson
Description: This bonus podcast – a new edition to the Jossey-Bass Online Teaching and Learning Conference – highlights an innovative framework—the Phases of Engagement—that helps instructors become more involved as knowledge generators and co-facilitators of a course. The session will offer specific ideas for tested activities that can go a long way to improving online learning. Listeners will also be provided with a process – that if they engage in – will lead to a pile of new strategies that can be put to use immediately!
About the Podcast Guests:
Rita-Marie Conrad: Rita-Marie Conrad has been teaching, designing and consulting about online courses for the past decade. She is currently a member of the programmatic advisory council for the Online Adult Education/HRD program at Florida State University and an online faculty member in the College of Education.
She has been the head of online instructional development and an online faculty member at the School of Information Studies at Florida State University as well as the founding online faculty member of FSU’s Master’s degree program in instructional systems in the College of Education. She has also taught online courses for Capella University and Nova Southeastern University and classroom-based courses for Tallahassee Community College.
Conrad consults on the design and implementation of distance learning courses, the management of technology-related projects, the use of technology in the classroom, and has provided training to community college and university faculty. She is a frequent presenter on the topic of online instruction at various national forums such as the Learning Resources Network and the Annual Conference on Distance Teaching and Learning.
Rita-Marie Conrad is coauthor of Faculty Guide to Moving Teaching and Learning to the Web, which assists faculty nationwide with decisions regarding the move of a course to the Web and is also the co-author of Engaging the Online Learner: Activities for Creative Instruction which provides activities to develop an interactive online learning community.
She holds a Ph.D. in instructional systems design, with a focus in distance learning, from Florida State University, a master’s degree in educational media and computers from Arizona State University and a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Illinois State University.
J. Ana Donaldson: J. Ana Donaldson is assistant professor of Educational Technology at the University of Northern Iowa. Donaldson is a published author, keynote speaker, international presenter, and for many years has conducted workshops on integrating technology into engaged learning environments. She is co-author of Engaging the Online Learner: Activities for Creative Instruction.
