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National Distance Learning Week is November 9 through November 13th and you can take advantage of the free seminars offered. Where? They are offered online of course.  If you have not yet discovered the beauty of virtual learning, virtual meetings and virtual jobs you are in for a pleasant surprise.  Distance learning technologies offer all the bells and whistles of sitting live in a classroom or a conference room.  These meetings will be conducted in Elluminate, the web based classroom used by many colleges and universities with distance learning curriculum, such as, Nova Southeastern University, Drexel University Online and others.  Some tend to believe that when the delivery is online there will be something lacking or missing in the delivery 

This week you can experience firsthand, by free live webinar, the virtual classroom experience.  There will be a whiteboard, the teacher can share their desktop so you are able to read documents as if you opened them yourself.  Students can raise their hands, clap, frown, give it a thumbs up or down , click a microphone to speak, hear all other participants when they speak and....are you ready for this... close a little door to let the class know you are visiting the restroom, which you open when you return.  Elluminate live webinars can be such fun one can forget they are in a class or a meeting.  Register for your favorites and join the United States Distance Learning Association (USDLA) in celebrating National Distance Learning Week (NDLW) and enjoy a series of events you will not forget:

MONDAY (NOV. 9th)
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 pm (ET)
Pre K-12/HomeSchooling
This webinar will explore how the use of related information, communication, and educational technologies are being used to support and improve Pre K-12 / home school based learning and student achievement. Specific areas of interest may focus on professional development for trainers/educators, cooperative models for developing and distributing instructional materials, best practices around all aspects of blended learning, content management, reusable content, development tools, learning governance and other related topics.


2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. (ET)
Higher Education
This webinar will explore a broad range of issues related to the institution's/unit's practices and procedures as new global campuses become the norm and the traditional education landscape transforms. Specific areas of interest may focus on strategic planning, accreditation, faculty workload, international programs, virtual learning communities, leadership, connecting educational institutions globally, trends, best practices and alternative education as an issue of national competitiveness.


TUESDAY (NOV. 10th)
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 pm (ET)
Blending Learning
This webinar will explore the economy of scale and power of blended learning which is derived from its "elasticity": the ability to integrate a variety of synchronous and asynchronous media allowing the instructional designer to attain the most appropriate blended learning solution. Each participant will receive a FREE copy of the USDLA Instructional Media Selection Guide for Distance Learning authored by Dr. Jolly Holden and Dr. Philip Westfall.

2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. (ET)
Game-based Learning
This webinar will explore a broad range of issues related to Game-based Learning and some of the trends seen in this growing market. Specific areas of interest may focus on the differences, simulations and trends for Game-based Learning to include uses across various markets and social causes.

3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. (ET)
Inspiring Teachers' Use of Curriculum Videoconferencing: What Works
Presenter: Janine Lim, Instructional Technology Consultant, Berrien RESA
Teachers are the most important key to implementing any new technology innovation. So how to do you hook teachers on curriculum videoconferencing? Learn what works in Southwest Michigan and apply these principles to your own school.

WEDNESDAY (NOV. 11th)
11:00 a.m. - 10:00 p.m. (ET)
Military / Government: **VETERANS DAY SPECIAL**
This webinar will explore training, educating and benefits across the U.S. military. In excess of $20 billion is spent to train and educate service members each year, involving the delivery of thousands of courses for hundreds of specialized occupational areas. In addition, other governmental organizations are dealing with how to bridge that gap in a technology driven ever increasing globalize economy. Specific areas of interest may focus on learning management systems, benefits of the new GI Bill, Virtual Worlds, human capital solutions, performance initiatives, innovative delivery methods for content in multiple modes, transformation of training, Sharable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM), and interagency and multinational collaboration.

THURSDAY (NOV. 12th)
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. (ET)
Public Policy
This webinar will explore today's policy initiatives which drive information and communication technologies with a focus on distance learning opportunities for education and training. To that end and in order to support, accelerate and fulfill the tremendous potential of distance learning and its impact on education and training technologies, the USDLA Public Policy Committee supports an open discussion forum. Specific areas of discussion for this event will cover an overview of Department priorities, status of legislative initiatives, reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act along with workforce development.

2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. (ET)
USDLA and Membership: Chapters, Membership and How to Get Involved!
This webinar will explore the United States Distance Learning Association, which is a non-profit organization formed in 1987 and is located in Boston, Massachusetts. USDLA promotes the development and application of distance learning for education and training and serves the needs of the distance learning community by providing advocacy, information, networking and opportunity. Distance education and training constituencies served include pre-k-12 education, higher and continuing education, home schooling, as well as business, corporate, military, government, and telehealth markets. Specific areas of interest may focus on an overview of activities, direction and ways you and your organization can get involved via individual and/or organizational levels with state or global chapter support.

FRIDAY (NOV. 13th)
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. (ET)
Mobile learning
This webinar will explore the new undiscovered learning environment and how it is changing the way the world learns and interacts in a global multi-billion dollar education and training market. Specific areas of interest may focus on mobile learning, simulation, social networking, blended learning and Web 2.0 technologies.

2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. (ET)
International: Culture, Language and Collaborative Learning Globally
This webinar will explore a broad range of issues related to collaborative learning globally. Specific areas of interest may focus on what various countries are doing in regards to distance/open learning, distribution, culture, language and providing overall accesses to learning globally.

Register Today: Sponsored & Hosted by: Elluminate, Inc.