MERLOT and TLT Group partner to deliver two faculty development programs
1. Group Webcast – MERLOT: Teaching with Technology
In April of 2006, MERLOT and the TLT (Teaching, Learning and Technology) Group will offer the three week, online, participatory workshop, MERLOT: Teaching with Technology. The workshop will focus on how the MERLOT collection and services provide faculty with valuable resources in the design, delivery, and assessment of courses offered face-to-face, entirely online, or in a blended (hybrid) format. The workshop is one of many planned activities in which MERLOT and its partner TLT are cooperating. The first of the three part series begins April 5th and runs from 3:00 to 4:00 pm EST. Other session are April 12th and April 19th.
Ray Purdom, Editor of MERLOT’s Teaching and Technology discipline, will coordinate the series and conduct the workshops with members of the TLT Board and other MERLOT discipline boards. For more information and to register visit http://www.tltgroup.org/OLI/Schedule.htm. For information regarding other TLT events click on http://www.tltgroup.org/Events/EventsCalendar/Chronological%20View.htm
2. TLT Group Presents On-Line Events
The Teaching, Learning, and Technology Group (http://www.tltgroup.org/) strives to motivate and enable institutions and individuals to improve teaching and learning with technology, while helping them cope with continual change. For a list of scheduled events, go to http://www.tltgroup.org/OLI/Schedule.htm.
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