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Periodically we'll make available sections from our forthcoming book,
Wired Seminars: How to Broaden your Market by Turning your Traditional
Seminar into a Virtual Seminar. Here is an overview based on the table
of contents.
Imagining a wired seminar
Preface
Overview and Some Assumptions
A Little
Learning Theory
Why presentations don't work
Apprenticeship and collaboration models
Five instructional design elements
Preparing Instructional Objectives
Elements of acceptable objectives
Bloom's taxonomy
Appropriate
Practice and Participation
Replacing lectures with activities
Effective use of case studies and critical incidents
Constructing the Lesson Plan
An extended, fictionalized example
Materials, checklists, worksheets
Alternate ways of organizing the seminar
Technologies
The virtual workspace
Communicating with email, chat, threaded discussions
Teleconferencing
Webconferencing and videoconferencing
Building a Learning Community: the role of the moderator
First things
Encouraging participation
The soul of a community
Moderator, coach, subject matter expert, designer
Where's the teacher?
Rules of conduct
A Community of Practice Emerges
Business Considerations
Implications of scalability
Fixed and variable costs
Resources
Glossary
Useful readings/URLs
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