Date: Wed, 24 Sep 1997 08:27:55 -0400
Sender: Latin American and Caribbean Electronic Distance Education Forum
<CREAD@YORKU.CA>
From: Alana Polcyn <apolcyn@POLARIS.UMUC.EDU>
Subject: Online Distance Education Conference, Oct 20-Nov 3, 1997
****************************ANNOUNCING*******************************
Faculty Strategies for Engaging Online Learners:
A Web-based Conference for Educators
October 20-November 3, 1997
Faculty Strategies for Engaging Online Learners, a Web-based asynchronous
computer conference, will explore the issues of how to create and maintain
meaningful teacher/student and student/student interaction online. Faculty
who are currently teaching their own Web-based classes or courses taught
through computer conferencing systems will lead this two week online
conference.
Sponsored by the University System of Maryland Institute for Distance
Education and The International University Consortium, this program is part
of the *Potential of the Web* series that explore the challenges of
designing and delivering university-level instruction on the World Wide Web.
For more information and online registration form, visit the conference web
site at:
http://www.umuc.edu/ide/strategies/
Alana Polcyn
Coordinator, Events & Communications
Institute for Distance Education
International University Consortium
University of Maryland, University College
University Blvd. at Adelphi Rd.
College Park, MD 20742
(301) 985-7812