About the Speakers
Mr. Mitchell joined eThink in 2015 and brings nearly 15 years of experience in higher education to the organization. In his role as Director of Sales he is responsible for business development efforts in the higher education and corporate sectors. Mr. Mitchell holds a Master of Public Administration and a Bachelor of Arts from Syracuse University.
About The Webinar
With institutions scrambling the past months to transition to remote instruction, the LMS has become the lifeline for millions of students and instructors as they shift for the convenience, wellbeing, and safety of their learners. In this quick transition, many institutions have come to recognize that in order to organize and streamline digital learning, you need a highly flexible, functional, and interoperable learning platform that will serve as a virtual hub to store, track, and deliver your learning programs.
Fortunately, through the power of open-source technology, eLearning administrators can leverage a variety of highly accessible solutions to support institutional learning. Instructors can incorporate different strategies in order to enhance the digital learning experience for users in the short-term, but ultimately encouraging long-term information retention and improved learning outcomes.
Join eThink on Thursday, April 23rd at 11am Eastern to discover the most important strategies an institution can leverage in order to provide effective distance learning during this time and into the future.
During the session, you will learn:
- Strategies for shifting from strictly instructor-led courses to an online experience.
- Support ideas for helping faculty and students adjust to the immediacy of moving online.
- How to deliver an engaging online learning experience that incorporates the best aspects of in-class courses.
- eLearning trends and strategies that can be accommodated in your institution’s learning platform (or LMS) to take things to the next level such as microlearning, competency-based education, blending synchronous and asynchronous activities, gamification, and more.
- How Moodle's community-driven platform, combined with eThink's tailored customer support and powerful integrations, provide a refreshingly simple and flexible solution to meet specific institutional needs.
Date: April 23rd, 2020
Time: 11:00 am Eastern / 4:00 pm BST
Duration: 1 hour
Smoothing the Transition to Remote Instruction
Ms. Bentley joined eThink in 2015 after nearly 15 years of experience in higher education. In her role as VP of Services she works closely with the Customer Solutions, Implementation, & Support Services teams to oversee the eThink client lifecycle. During her time as Director of IT at Lafayette College she led the campus through a successful LMS transition to Moodle in 2007 and has been active in the Moodle community, even accepting the inaugural CLAMP recognition award for her outstanding contributions to the development and documentation work of the organization.
About
eThink Education provides a fully-managed eLearning solution including cloud hosting, implementation, integration, consultation, and management services for open-source Moodle and Totara. Managed by experts, eThink’s total solution provides a dynamic and customizable platform to meet specific institutional and organizational needs for clients in various industries including Healthcare, Education, Nonprofit, Government, and Corporate. eThink also offers LMS and eLearning trainings through eThink Academy, as well as custom content solutions.
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Ms. Machia joined eThink Education in 2014 with a range of experience in academic settings. She previously worked as an Instructional Technologist and Institutional Researcher at SUNY Potsdam and as a consultant for Cyberlearning, Inc. before joining Metropolitan College of New York as their eLearning Coordinator and Moodle administrator. Ms. Machia has also taught and designed online and blended courses and serves as a certified course reviewer for the Quality Matters program. She holds a BA in History and Secondary Social Studies Education, a New York State teaching certification, and a MSEd. in Educational Technology.