The Key Ideas of Engaged Learning

Date: Tuesday, August 11, 2020

Time: 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. (Eastern Time)

You have a challenge. You have days to get your course online.

• How do you do it?
• What should you focus on?
• What do we know about what works?
• How do you engage students in their learning?

Follow a step-by-step approach to successfully move your course online. Learn from best practices and mistakes made by others.

Five Key Takeaways

1. Key features of a learning strategy to get your course online quickly.
2. The common “mistakes” and how can you avoid them.
3. Design activities to involve and engage students.
4. Getting your LMS to do what you need it to do.
5. Making sure the course is working in the way you intended it to.

Tags: Engaged Learning Educational Strategies Pedagogical Innovation Best Practices

Host:

Dr. Stephen Murgatroyd

Chief Innovation Officer, Contact North | Contact Nord

Dr. Murgatroyd has over thirty years’ experience in teaching online as well as developing online courses and programs. He designed, developed and implemented the world’s first online MBA as Executive Director, Centre for Innovative Management at Athabasca University. Dr. Murgatroyd advises colleges and universities on strategies and policies on online learning. He has guided governments on educational policy in Chile, Paraguay, UAE, Australia and New Zealand. Most recently he has been advising the New Zealand government on the ways it can harness its complete reorganization of the polytechnic sector to focus on a skills agenda and multiple routes to learner success. In the UAE he is working with both the Ministry of Possibilities and the Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research on the future of technology enabled learning, especially focusing on Smart Skills and the role of AI and augmented and virtual reality in reimagining learning.

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Provincial Land Acknowledgement

Contact North | Contact Nord respectfully acknowledges that our work, and the work of our community partners, takes place on traditional Indigenous territories across the province.

We are grateful to be able to work and live in these territories. We are thankful to the First Nations, Métis and Inuit people who have cared for these territories since time immemorial and who continue to strengthen Ontario and all communities across the province.

The Key Ideas of Engaged Learning

The Key Ideas of Engaged Learning

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