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November 9th, 2006
Mendenhall Student Center
10:00am-2:00pm

This fall Academic Outreach will host Teaching with Technology 2006: A Think-In of Best Practices.  This event will provide ECU and Eastern Region Community College faculty the opportunity to share their expertise using technology in both face-to-face and distance education courses. View the Think-In website for more information and to submit your proposal. The proposal deadline is October 2nd. 

Larry Nash White spent 8 years as a retail manager and 13 years as a practicing professional library leader before joining the Library Science & Instructional Technology Department at ECU to teach Library Administration and Leadership. He has published a pictorial history of Marietta Ohio and multiple articles and book chapters on library leadership, competition and strategic responses, and organizational and service assessment. He is a frequently invited international public speaker on the issues of library management, assessment, and competitive strategic responses. He is currently at work on a new book called "The Performance Primer," an executive summary of performance assessment practices and methodologies. He is also a co-principle investigator for a 2006 Institute of Museum and Library Services grant of $738,000 program. 

Areas of Specialization:  Library administration and management, leadership, marketing and strategic planning, organizational performance and service assessment, and organizational informatics. 

Courses Currently Teaching (Fall 06):  LIBS 6031 (2 sections.)

Briefly describe how you use technology to teach in DE courses:  All of the courses I teach are completely online, so technology is the foundation of each course. I provide course resources, lecture materials, PowerPoint and audio files to supplement the student learning experience.

A technology tip -- that works for you.  Always use the technology yourself as a student/intended audience member would and make it easy to use. Keeping it simple and always have a back up plan that uses low tech alternatives, like faxes and telephone calls, will allow the student to minimize their technology hurdles and maximize their time with course content.

Social Presence in Distance Learning

Social presence can be defined as the sense of being and belonging that students have in a course.  How does social presence affect students in our distance learning environment?  Research currently states that social presence improves student satisfaction with online courses.  The goals of this study are to verify that these results are consistent with our DE population and identify specific strategies that create and develop social presence.  We will share the results of our study in the Spring 07 semester.  If you have questions about the Social Presence in Distance Learning study, please contact Ginny Sconiers at sconiersg@ecu.edu.

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