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Institute Content

How the Internet is Changing How We Learn
Why cognitive learning is better over the Internet. How in-person and on-site learning will change. How we learn online. The forces driving online learning.

Positioning Your Courses for Success
Understanding the economics of online learning. Going for 100 - 1,000 participants per class. Establishing your position in the marketplace. Franchising your online course.

Choosing an Online Classroom
The three essential components of all online classrooms. A look at a model online classroom and the leading providers. Today's technology, tomorrow's technology.

Designing Your Online Curriculum
How knowledge is changing. Developing modules or units. Structuring discussion and interaction. Designing assessments and quizzes.

Keys to Planning and Developing Your Online Programs
Choosing your audiences and subjects. Gauging the competition. Choosing teachers. How to become the foremost authority. Choosing readings. Writing online text, creating links. Making audio presentations. Adding visuals. How to facilitate discussions.

Managing Online Programs
Instructor contracts. Who owns an online course? Staffing. Technical support.

Budgeting Online Programs
The finances of online courses. Making 50% operating margin. Pricing online courses. Budgeting expenses. Franchising: Selling seats in your course to other organizations.

Promoting Online Courses
E-mail promotions. Creating an e-mail newsletter. The role for direct mail and brochures. What to put on your web site. Online registration, and more.

Running Your Program Using an Intranet
Why intranets will run all organizations in the 21st century. What an intranet looks like. Enhancing communication using an intranet. Improving supervision using an intranet.

Developing Online Courses, our newly updated manual on developing and marketing online courses, is included FREE as part of your registration. PLUS, you?ll get Teaching Online. This must-read book is getting rave reviews and author interviews all over the country. Both manual and book are included with your Institute registration.

General Information on the Strategic Planning of Online Courses Institute- can be found here.

 

 

2007 Summer Institutes

June 3-7,
2007
Minneapolis, MN

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