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tc07 1/23/2010 5:44:00

General Session - Conference Presentation Only (no formal paper)

//Caterina Valentino, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada, cvalentino@ryerson.ca//
 * Fashion, Fad and Classic Styles: Online Teaching Tip**

As institutions of higher learning yield to the demand of learners for the delivery of online education, lecturers are being pushed to understand online student engagement. Successful online teaching is a marriage of the science of online pedagogy and the art of online student engagement. This presentation introduces the Process Model of Academic and Relational Support (PARS) as the foundation of successful online pedagogy. By coupling the PARS model with first-hand and evidence-based online teaching tips, participants will leave this presentation with an arsenal of strategies that will allow them to create and maintain a flexible learning environment, whether that environment is blended, e-learning or mobile. Disenchanted instructors who have not mastered this marriage quickly become divorced, oftentimes without fully understanding what went wrong. Yet, with the exponential growth in online and e-learning methods, instructors should not be quick dismiss online instruction as simply a fad but should instead embrace it as the new instructional wave that is here to stay.

All Audiences online pedagogy, e teaching tips, online design

This is an application presentation. It links a pedagogical model of online instruction with the tacit, learned and evidence-based teaching strategies and tips. Wherever possible Web 2.0 resources will be used to intensify the marriage of the art and science of online instruction with the student needs and electronic capabilities.