Presenter Name & Short Bio:

Jeremy Dunning is Emeritus Dean of Continuing Studies and a professor of geophysics at Indiana University. Dunning was one of the early adopters of technology in education in the late 1980’s. He was coauthor of the first interactive textbook, the award winning In TerraActive. He has won a number of awards for his work in this arena including the 2006 Ernest Boyer Award. This award “honors the worlds highly creative men and women who have contributed significantly to teaching, learning and technology in higher education. Nominees for the award are chosen in institution-wide searches and have contributed in highly creative ways to teaching, learning and technology.”  Dunning has previously won the 2006 innovative Excellence in Teaching, Learning, and Technology from Teach-Learn.org,, the Alfred Sloan Foundation Sloan-C Best Practices Award (2003), the ACHE Novel Use of Technology Award (2004), the ICI Gold Medal (2003), three Envisage New Media finalist awards for his CDROM In-Terra Active (1995), the distinguished course award from the University Continuing Education Association (1997). He has won three best paper awards at international conferences on teaching and learning, was the 1996 Distinguished Fellow at the Agency for Instructional Technology, and was the 1986 Hearst Distinguished Lecturer at the University of California at Berkeley. Dunning is also the developer of the award winning TALON repurposeable learning object templates, which are used by four of the five largest publishers in the world, 83 universities and several ministries of education around the world. He is also the founder and president of Arjuna Multimedia and has active teaching and research programs at Indiana University, where he won this year’s Board of Trustees Teaching Excellence Award. Dunning is the author of over 120 articles, eight CDROM textbooks, and five books. Dunning has presented over 200 workshops at universities, publishers and ministries of education. all over the world, and has presented keynote or plenary lectures at the Sloan ALN Conference, Educa Online, the International Conference on Teaching, Learning and Technology,the Oxford Roundtable, the IIIS/EISTA international conference, the ICI conference, and Educause

Where & when the workshop has been previously presented:
Parts of the workshop have been presented at Sloan ALN, the International Conference on Teaching Learning, and Technology, and Educause, but is newly re created with new materials on the CDROM.

Dates: Sunday the 15th  March  
Time: 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM - (daily) coffee/tea, lunch breaks approximately 1 ½ hours daily
Place: The Headquarter of the National Center for e-learning and Distance Learning

Fees: SR 500

Intended Audience:
Novice to expert, faculty, designers, and administrators

Prerequisites if any:
The participants need not have extensive experience in e-learning.

Description of Presentation Format:
The presenter will present in an interactive format with computer projection. A CDROM and Workbook will be provided to each participant and those with laptops will be encouraged to work along with the presentation. Group projects and activities will be undertaken.

Workshop Description and Aims:
Objectives; New technologies can communicate high expectations explicitly and efficiently. Significant real-life problems, conflicting perspectives, or paradoxical data sets can set powerful learning challenges that drive students to not only acquire information but sharpen their cognitive skills of analysis, synthesis, application, and evaluation. Successful distance learning encourages contact between students and faculty; develops reciprocity and cooperation among students; encourages active learning; gives prompt feedback; emphasizes time on task; communicates high expectations; and respects diverse talents and ways of learning. In this workshop discussions and group exercises will provide the participants with the tools to achieve these goals.

     TOC;
       Five Pillars of e-learning
       Teaching and Learning Strategies
       Learning Styles
       Design Models for E-Learning
       Design Project Orientation
       Group Exercise
       Learning Object Design
       Group Exercise
       Course Outline Design Exercise
       Testing Group Design Strategies
       Wrap Up

     A CDROM and workbook will be presented to each participant.

Outcomes for Participants:
The outcome will be the ability to design and build e-learning classes and materials.