This presentation highlights the work of two universities’ work with Second Life: The M3 Project at the University of Southampton in the UK focused on international students coming to the UK to study; The Chinese Tea House project at the University of Melboune focused on students who would be going to study in China.

Ready to teach with Second Life, but not sure how to begin? Using it already, but need to migrate your course content for virtual world delivery? Come prepared to have fun as we explore how to design learning activities for use in Second Life. Tips on how to streamline your virtual world classes and help your students learn how to use Second Life are featured in this session.

Blended learning is increasing in popularity in institutions around the world, but what about the workplace learning sector? This workshop will detail a blended learning program that has been running in some New Zealand workplaces for five years, discuss the intersections between workplace and blended learning theories, and provide ample opportunities for participants to discuss their own experiences and formulate new ideas.

Online learning is growing throughout the education and work worlds. Many differences exist between online instruction and face-to-face instruction, including delivery, participation, instructional methods, assessment and communication.

Participants will explore a Second Life build aimed at helping new Second Life users learn how to communicate. The environment is modeled loosely on a Victorian pleasure garden, applying principles of environmental psychology, constructivism and transformative learning.

This presentation will be an overview of the different methods in the planning, producing, publishing and promoting of hybrid podcasts with instructions on the building of a 508 compliant podcast. This workshop will provide participants with new concepts and augment their skills to current guidelines on the accessibility of emerging technologies. Method of delivery will be a hybrid podcast via the web with interaction via discussion forum.

Distance education provides many non-traditional students with the opportunity to pursue a college education not possible through traditional brick and mortar education. Although not meeting face-to-face, a solid developmental curriculum and academic resources help promote a stronger connection between the classroom and student community. This presentation will discuss strategies for motivating and retaining online students.

This is a workshop/tour of how we planned and developed content, resources, and lesson plans for an ICS 100 (Computing Literacy and Applications) course collaboratively mediated to four sections by two instructors.

Selecting and implementing a new Learning Management System (LMS) can be an overwhelming process. The decisions made during this process can impact the health and happiness of the learning organization as well as the future of the online learning offerings and success of the students.

As distance programs grow and online learning flourishes, a variety of learners are attracted to the prospect of this educational approach. This workshop presentation will discuss the emerging issues for institutions that include the ability to support and work within a diverse and multigenerational group of learners in the classroom.

This workshop will explore Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences and how the use of an online learning system can help to meet these varied learning styles in a single class. Student engagement, new pedagogies and new ways of approaching old pedagogies and assessments will all be explored as situations that can benefit from the use of a learning management system.