Press ReleaseSpecial Class for Educators Unites Computers/Collaborative LearningThis spring, Marlboro College Graduate Center is offering a special class for educators to increase their knowledge and improve their skills as they use computers to expand the total learning experience. "Facilitating Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning" will upgrade teachers' command of the use of computers as a powerful and fundamental ingredient in a modern, collaborative learning environment. Through the course, teachers will learn a variety of collaborative learning techniques as well as explore and evaluate collaborative software tools. In addition to investigating theoretical foundations of collaborative learning, they will also learn specific techniques and tools that can be used for collaborative discussion, peer teaching, problem solving, visual learning, and writing. This foundation will then be applied to "real-world" situations as the participants plan, design, create and implement a computer-supported collaborative learning experience. The course will be taught by Jim Woodell. He was an instructor at the Graduate Center from 1997 to 2003. Currently, Woodell is Dean of Academic Technology and Distance Learning at North Shore Community College in Danvers, Massachusetts, and a member of the National University Telecommunications Network Advisory Board. He has over twenty years of experience in distance education and instructional media, holding positions in corporate training, public television, educational software development, and college teaching and administration. The class begins May 6, and will be held at Marlboro College Graduate Center, 28 Vernon Street, Brattleboro, Vermont. It carries three semester hours of graduate school credit. Those interested in learning more about the course should contact Margaret Donahue, Director of Admissions, at mdonahue@gradcenter.marlboro.edu or call her at 888-258-5665 ext. 209. |
