Workshop I: An Orientation to Course Redesign

Registration Information

Date: February 18, 2011
Time: 10:00 am – 4:00 pm
Place:  Hilton Garden Inn Columbia
            3300 Vandiver Drive
            Columbia, Missouri  65202
            Tel: 1-573-814-5464 

A block of rooms are reserved under “Missouri Course Redesign Workshop (NCAT).” The room rate is $99. The deadline for booking rooms is January 17, 2011.

To Register:

Send an email to Rhonda Turner at turnerrh@umsystem.edu:

1. Subject line: “Registration for Course Redesign Orientation”

2. Please include the following information:

• Your name and title
• Academic unit and university
• Phone and email

3. You may register multiple attendees from the same academic unit in a single email; please include phone and email for each attendee.

Agenda

Homework

Workshop participants should read the following prior to the workshop:

• Improving Learning and Reducing Costs: New Models for Online Learning
  An article by Carol A. Twigg that includes a full description of multiple course redesign models with examples.
• Five Principles of Successful Course Redesign
  A summary of the redesign techniques that are essential to improving student learning while reducing instructional costs.
• Missouri Course Redesign Initiative Application Guidelines
  How to apply to participate in the Missouri Course Redesign Initiative. Please pay particular attention to Stage Two: Identifying the Course.

FOR MORE INFORMATION

For more information about the orientation workshop, the Missouri Course Redesign Initiative, or NCAT, please contact:

• Your campus provost/chief academic officer.
• Christa Weisbrook, Faculty Fellow, UM System, (573) 882-0001, chris@umsystem.edu.
• Carolyn Jarmon, NCAT Vice President, (518) 695-5320, cjarmon@theNCAT.org.