Strategies for Rapidly Moving Online

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Achieving the Dream (ATD) in partnership with Every Learner Everywhere March 2020

Topic: Effective Teaching Practices Times of Uncertainty

Role: Faculty Instructional Support Staff

When teaching during times of disruption, educators need to be creative and flexible in how they support students in achieving essential course learning objectives. During this free one-hour webinar, Achieving the Dream will share strategies to help you and your students rapidly move your teaching and learning online. We’ll address common challenges such as how to stay connected to your students, foster collaboration, find low tech solutions when online is not an option, and find digital activities and assignments on the fly. Online teaching experts and instructional designers from ATD network colleges will share their expertise and emerging ideas. There will be time reserved to connect with other colleges, share creative solutions, and hear what your greatest needs are and how ATD can help.

Presenters: Susan Adams, Instructional Designer at ATD; Richard Sebastian, Director of Open & Digital Learning at ATD; and Karen Stout, President and CEO of ATD

Online Teaching & Learning Through Disruption Webinar Series

A series of ATD webinars focused on supporting faculty, staff, and students during the current unprecedented closure of community college campuses across the United States. During each of these weekly sessions, we hope to accomplish three goals:

Provide you with the strategies, tools, and knowledge you need to adjust to the educational and social disruptions on your campus caused by the COVID-19 pandemic
Help connect you with peers, communities of practice, and other valuable external resources
Hear from you about your immediate needs to help ATD’s Teaching and Learning team develop just-in-time resources and services that help you address these needs

Recommended citation:

Sebastian, R., Stout, K., Adams, S., Iuzzini, J., Carpenter, F., Garth-McCullough, R., and Taylor, S. (2020, March 25) Webinar on Online Teaching & Learning Through Disruption: Strategies for Rapidly Moving Online [Video] Achieving the Dream. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2F2OiRZB0w

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