Presentations with Audio

The Wheel May Not Need to be Reinvented: Learning Styles and Digital Content [view presentation in a new window]
This presentation discusses models of learning styles, resources for finding faculty-developed content for use online, and best practices in an educational setting.

Learning Styles, Effective Teaching Tools, and Internet Objects
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Discusses the influence of faculty and designer learning styles in developing content for learning settings.

Learning Styles: Designing Courses for Many Styles
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This presentation is similar to the above two presentations but also includes an interactive quiz during the presentation to affirm what the viewer has learned.


Use the links at the top of this page to access other learning content including a student tutorial on APA Writing Style (written collaboratively by Bonnie Korn and Sarah Swart) and eDiscussion Guidelines written by Sarah Swart (for use with online discussion boards).

 

 

Visual Presentations

The Wheel May Not Need to be Reinvented: Learning Styles and Digital Content [view presentation in a new window]
This presentation discusses models of learning styles, resources for finding faculty-developed content for use online, and best practices in an educational setting. This presentation is the same presentation as listed in the audio presentations, but audio is not included.

Korn, Bonnie and Swart, Sarah. Responding to the IOM Initiatives to Transform the BSN Program: 2005. Presentation at Michigan Nursing Summit 2005. [view presentation in PowerPoint new window]
Note that some of the example websites toward the end of the presentation may no longer be active.

Swart, Sarah. Styles in Word Tutor: Introduction for Students.
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The presentations below were presented as CE courses for the American Dental Hygienists Association, June 30 2008.

Learning and Teaching Styles: Getting to Know the Real You!
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In this session participants will learn:

  • Development and background of learning styles
  • David Kolb Learning Theory
  • Jungian Typology
  • Enneagram Types
  • Fleming VARK Learning Styles
  • Integration of Enneagram, Jungian Typology, and Fleming Learning Styles
  • Application to Effective Course Design

Backward Design from the Learning Outcome: Taxonomies to Make Learning Work
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In this session the participants will:

  • Identify principles for adult learning
  • Review 12 Principles in Teaching Adults
  • Apply pedagogical theories to course design
  • Learn a process for unit design
  • Apply the use of Rubrics to enhance learning and teaching

Swart, Sarah. Course Site Review Form based on Seven Principles for Undergraduate Education (Chickering) [view pdf]
This form provides a good tool for evaluating the effectiveness of online course content for distance education.