As medical schools are demanding more time for active learning in the classroom, lecture presentations are encouraged to be provided for students’ self-paced learning outside the class. Making the content of a presentation able to interact with students and integrating quizzes with a presentation would be an effective way to convert a presentation into a self-directed learning tool, but it is a challenge. It requires advanced web authoring skills and programming knowledge. With Adobe Captivate, you can easily do this without mastering such level of skills. Participants in this hands-on workshop will learn how to easily create Flash-based interactive presentations and assessments for online learning in Adobe Captivate. The workshop will focus on creating presentations with interactive elements and various types of quizzes to allow students to get richer learning experience.
Thursday April 16th 12:00-1:30 pm
Register via e-mail to: Taeyeol Park, FACS ITDD
Scenario-based learning puts students in a situation and exposes them to issues and problems. As they work through the situation by choosing options, they learn the skills necessary to accomplish their tasks successfully. The challenge with online scenario-based learning is that scenario-based lessons can be very difficult to develop using traditional authoring tools, due to its dynamic, branching character. It would likely require someone with expertise in programming languages and also would be expensive to develop, maintain, and deploy. Fortunately, with Adobe Captivate, you can author and deliver case-based or problem-based scenarios without web authoring skill or programming knowledge. The software allows you to create branches with correct paths and incorrect paths through the scenario and timely feedback. This workshop is to introduce the Scenario Simulation feature in Captivate and to learn how to create online scenario-based lessons.
Wednesday April 22nd 12:00-1:30 pm
Register via e-mail to: Taeyeol Park, FACS ITDD
Student Response Systems or “clickers” allow instructors to ask questions and gather students' responses during a lecture. Each student uses a "clicker" to answer questions posed by the instructor in a PowerPoint presentation. Summaries of student responses can be shown in real time on the large screen. Use of clickers in the classroom has been shown to transform large group instruction into an active learning experience. Clickers can allow anonymous, simultaneous, and fast response to instructor questions on class material, and increase students' attention and interest and to increase retention of information presented in lectures. In this workshop, you will learn how to use clickers in lectures and discuss how to design questions and use within your lecture plan. Plus you will have a chance to try out the software.
Register via e-mail to: Taeyeol Park, FACS ITDD
With Adobe Presenter, you can easily create your lecture presentations and directly record your narrations and videos in PowerPoint. Presenter allows you to synchronize the narrations and the videos with the presentations and publish the presentations as Flash movies for effective online delivery. This workshop focuses on how to easily create online presentations for students’ self-paced learning converting lecture slides Flash movies and add narrations and lecturer’s talking heads using Adobe Presenter, and upload them to Blackboard.
Tuesday April 14th 12:00-1:30 pm