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| Millennial
Learning: April
16-17, 2009
Dr. Lawrence
C. Ragan is Director-Faculty Development for Penn State's World
Campus. Dr. Ragan is charged with directing the design and development
of a wide range of faculty development services and systems. Dr.
Ragan has worked in online educational design and delivery for over
10 years and has taught a variety of online courses and faculty
development programs. Dr. Ragan has presented internationally on
the topics of instructional design, multimedia development, faculty
development issues and instructional design for distance education.
His current areas of research includes the articulation of strategies,
techniques and methods that faculty can use to manage their online
teaching workload and the definition of the core competencies required
for online teaching success. Keynote
Session with Table Discussions and Feedback: The use of elearning
technologies in the educational process is quickly becoming an expectation
of both the learners and administration in higher education. Faculty
are being encouraged, coerced, and cajoled into embracing these
new and emerging technologies in hybrid, blended and online learning
delivery models. Often these expectations are not clearly defined
and limited information is available describing the required skill
sets and competencies in order to find teaching success. Dr. Ragan
has collected a wealth of input and research that informs the definition
of the competencies for hybrid, blended and online teaching success.
This project was undertaken in order to improve the faculty / professional
development offerings designed to prepare educators for success
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