Free teleconference on online learning and teaching

Free* teleconference at 1 p.m. Pacific time on Monday, April 4

Topic: online teaching and learning using a free, open source program to
create a web site for the management and delivery of content in a
collaborative environment over the web or how to provide online conferences
and courses on a shoe string.

The open source program, called Moodle, incorporates a wide range of tools
to design and control the user interface, manage registration, deliver
textual and multimedia content and encourage the interaction of the
participants with the content, among themselves and with instructors.  The
demonstration of Moodle at http://drworkshop.com includes access as a
teacher/course designer enabling you to take a test drive of the various
features and tools that Moodle has for designing and organizing courses.

The panel for the one-hour teleconference--professors, instructors, dispute
resolution professionals and other experts on online teaching and
learning--will discuss the use of these online learning tools from the
perspective of the participant, the instructor, the course developer and the
site administrator.   The panelists will also discuss unbundling Moodle: the
use of Moodle tools to enhance traditional, face-to-face and teleconference
educational programs as well as their use in professional practice.  Please
sign up via http://drworkshop.org/signup/ to reserve a place for yourself.
The sign-up page will also have additional details about the teleconference,
downloading the slides and the availability of an audio recording of the
teleconference for listening over the internet.

Many of you will recall the series of monthly seminars that were hosted in
Network-Lawyers from September 2003 through February 2004.  Perhaps some of
you would re-volunteer to help plan, facilitate and/or present an updated
program on one of the topics from the seminar series but using instead the
free teleconference set-up plus some of the other learning tools on the
demonstration Moodle site. To evaluate the potential of teleconference and
audio replay for Network-Lawyers, please enroll in the online teaching and
learning program at http://drworkshop and either sign up for the
teleconference or listen to the audio replay after the teleconference.

The one-hour teleconference and the demonstration of the Moodle open source
learning management system is presented as part of the seventh annual Online
Dispute Resolution Cyberweek sponsored by the Center for Information
Technology and Dispute Resolution at the University of Massachusetts.  Check
out the other Cyberweek programs and demonstrations at http://odr.info

John DeBruyn and Peter DeBruyn
Teleconference and Demonstration Organizers

* Participants will need to call into the one-hour teleconference at
whatever rate their long distance providers charge. There are 100 "seats"
available to handle the panelists and other participants.  An audio
recording of the call will be available for listening or downloading from
the demos ration web site.



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There is a read/write Web page with resources that will be linked there and used during the Seminar on PDFs for lawyers and legal applications:

http://Network-Lawyers.org/PDFLinks

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