Webinars
May 2012
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May 1 – May 10
Workforce Education with Pearson
With workforce education in the national, state, and regional spotlight, we are pleased to invite you to our upcoming Workforce Education Webinar, highlighting the major trends in our discipline as well as the potential solutions that will enable you to build a successful online workforce education program on your campus.
The event will begin with a presentation covering the national workforce education environment, including legislative and educational developments, followed by a more in-depth view of workforce education in each state, integrating labor market data from our partnership with Monster.com. Lastly, the group will review recent solutions developed by Pearson, including its online, instructor-led courses in sectors such as health careers, information technology, business, and workforce readiness.
Presenter:
Tom Darling
National Director of Workforce Education
Pearson Education
Florida Workforce Education with Pearson
Tuesday, May 1, 2012 – 1:00 pm EST
Texas Workforce Education with Pearson
Thursday, May 3, 2012 – 1:00 pm EST
New York Workforce Education with Pearson
Tuesday, May 8, 2012 – 1:00 pm EST
North Carolina Workforce Education with Pearson
Thursday, May 10, 2012 – 1:00 pm EST
Thursday, May 10 – 2:00 pm EST
Self-Paced Learning & the College Completion Agenda
46% of U.S. college students do not graduate on time. What is stopping them? In this webinar, we will explore the issues that prevent many students from obtaining college degrees. We will discuss one way in which students can benefit from truly flexible alternatives to traditional classes without having to leave their school of choice. We will also showcase Pearson's new and innovative self-paced learning offering, Propero.
Presenters:
Andy Gates
Executive Director
Pearson Education
Trina Poe, DBA
Assistant Vice President of Academics
Pearson Learning Solutions
Wednesday, May 16 – 1:00 pm EST
Modernizing Lecture Capture with Panopto 4.1
2012 is the year in which lecture capture technology hits a tipping point. More and more on-campus and online academic institutions are looking to lecture capture as a way to enhance the learning experience, improve student retention and achievement, and stay on the leading edge of quality education. As the demand for lecture capture skyrockets, the requirements of the technology are also evolving. Join us for this free webinar, in which you'll learn about how the latest release of Panopto delivers on the requirements of modern lecture capture systems.
Presenter:
Rosemarie Console
Director of K-20 Education & Partnerships
Panopto
Private Sector and Career Education Webinars
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May 1 – May 10
Workforce Education with Pearson
With workforce education in the national, state, and regional spotlight, we are pleased to invite you to our upcoming Workforce Education Webinar, highlighting the major trends in our discipline as well as the potential solutions that will enable you to build a successful online workforce education program on your campus.
The event will begin with a presentation covering the national workforce education environment, including legislative and educational developments, followed by a more in-depth view of workforce education in each state, integrating labor market data from our partnership with Monster.com. Lastly, the group will review recent solutions developed by Pearson, including its online, instructor-led courses in sectors such as health careers, information technology, business, and workforce readiness.
Presenter:
Tom Darling
National Director of Workforce Education
Pearson Education
Florida Workforce Education with Pearson
Tuesday, May 1, 2012 – 3:00 pm EST
Texas Workforce Education with Pearson
Thursday, May 3, 2012 – 3:00 pm EST
New York Workforce Education with Pearson
Tuesday, May 8, 2012 – 3:00 pm EST
North Carolina Workforce Education with Pearson
Thursday, May 10, 2012 – 3:00 pm EST
Tuesday, May 15 – 1:00 pm EST
Modernizing Lecture Capture with Panopto 4.1
2012 is the year in which lecture capture technology hits a tipping point. More and more on-campus and online academic institutions are looking to lecture capture as a way to enhance the learning experience, improve student retention and achievement, and stay on the leading edge of quality education. As the demand for lecture capture skyrockets, the requirements of the technology are also evolving. Join us for this free webinar, in which you'll learn about how the latest release of Panopto delivers on the requirements of modern lecture capture systems.
Presenter:
Rosemarie Console
Director of K-20 Education & Partnerships
Panopto
Past Webinar Recordings
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Building an Online Workforce Presence
Duration: 32 minutes
Learn more about building your online workforce presence with Pearson Workforce Education. Enjoy the flexibility to run your program the way you want, with the quality your learners need, from a partner you can trust.
Presenter:
Tom Darling
National Director of Workforce Education
Pearson Learning Solutions
Charting a New Path: Innovation and accountability in K-12 charter schools
Duration: 56 minutes
Join Pearson and the Center for Digital Education for webinar focusing on innovation and accountability in K-12 charter schools. This presentation will feature a number of panelists from charter schools to present their perspectives on this topic.
Presenters:
Maurice "Reese" Flurie, Ed.D.
CEO
Commonwealth Connections Academy
Dr. Paige Morabito
Director of Online Education
Laurel Springs School
Nobel Learning Communities, Inc.
John Halpin
Vice President Strategic Programs
Center for Digital Education
Online Short Courses with Pearson
Duration: 30 minutes
Learn about the new online short courses that are coming available from Pearson Education. These certification–based courses are designed specifically for the adult learner to either obtain a new career or to move up in their current career. See how you can partner with Pearson Education to offer these crash courses to your students and your community!
Presenter:
Tom Darling
National Director of Workforce Education
Pearson Education
GED Prep+: A 90/10 and Recruiting Solution for Career Colleges
Duration: 34 minutes
In this presentation, we will describe our design process for our new adult learning product, GED Prep+, a new way to prep ONLINE, individually and/or collaboratively due to its ability to be deployed in an LMS. We will focus on the design process of the product, with its central goal of engaging the potentially underserved, reluctant learner. The product provides psychologically supportive dynamics in its learning structure, tone, and content in order to address the core non–cognitive deficits (rather than just academic deficiencies) that hamper GED exam success as well as post–GED academic and career success.
Presenter:
Laura Jo Swartley
Product Manager, GED Prep+
Pearson Learning Solutions
Harnessing the Power of Educational Data
Duration: 49 minutes
This session will illustrate the best way to create data–rich environments on a campus. From asking the right questions, to visualization, to action, data is only as useful as we make it! Along the way, session participants will begin to see an "index" of factors useful in creating a Student Success Profile with immediate implications.
Presenter:
Jeff Borden, PhD
Senior Director of Teaching and Learning
Pearson eCollege
Using Classroom and Skills Capture to Track Student Attention
Duration: 56 minutes
Looking for a technology that enables instructors and students to record, organize and share lectures and skills? Panopto can breathe life into your online, blended, and residential programs by letting you effortlessly meld video, audio, powerpoint, and other digital assets into seamless, searchable, and easy-to-share lessons and labs. Private sector institutions can use classroom and skills cpture to attract, engage, retain, and track student performance in their education programs.
Pearson complements Panopto with its institutional and course-specific learning solutions. With this partnership, Pearson works directly with educators to integrate Panopto into program offerings and curriculum. Rosemarie Console, Director of K-20 Education, will provide a walk through and discussion of how Panopto can work for you.
Presenter:
Rosemarie Console
Director of K-20 Education
Panopto
Market Research: Where is the Employment Demand?
Duration: 46 minutes
Learn about the importance of understanding real-time labor intelligence, how to use this data and new industry trends that can help your institution plan for future employment demands.
This webinar is presented by Pearson and Monster Government Solutions, the premier global provider of real-time labor intelligence (RLI) and advisory services to government, education, economic development and labor-focused research organizations. Monster's RLI provides the demand and supply side data, analysis and insights to drive decisions related to both strategic and tactical workforce, economic, and educational development. Our RLI services utilize Monster's vast data resources, large, experienced internal analyst team and extensive partner network to deliver highly actionable research solutions, while utilizing Monster’s vast databases of talent supply and demand.
Presenter:
Bruce Stephan
Director, Real-time Labor Intelligence Market Research
Monster Government Solutions
Increase Student Success and Retention with 24/7 Online Tutoring from Smarthinking
Duration: 47 minutes
Student success and retention have become the "litmus test" for institutional success. With many students underprepared, institutions are making serious choices about how to address this issue. Research shows that individualized, one-on-one tutoring is one of the most effective ways of increasing student achievement and improving retention.
This webinar will introduce you to research-based, research-proven online tutoring from Smarthinking, a member of the Pearson family. A campus representative will also share their experience and discuss the fiscal, administrative and academic decisions involved in providing extended academic support for students on their campus.
Presenter:
Dr. Barry Berman
Sales Director
Smarthinking
ICD-10 Short Course: Making the Transition Easy
Duration: 23 minutes
The medical billing and coding industry is going through a major change in its International Classification of Disease (ICD) system. Medical professionals will move from using 17,000 diagnostic and billing codes with ICD-9, to 141,000 codes with ICD-10, effective October 1, 2013, and the new information may seem overwhelming.
Medical professionals can prepare for the change with Pearson's Online ICD-10 Transition Course. Join us to learn more.
Presenter:
Tom Darling
National Director, Workforce Education
Pearson Education
Pearson and You: Bringing Together Content, Technology and Services
Duration: 36 minutes
Are you looking for ways to connect with your students in ways they are used to consuming information today? From electronic supplements to interactive applications, the Custom Technology Solutions group can fully customize the kinds of tools needed to engage, stimulate, and connect to 21st-century students both online and in the classroom.
More than just fun and games, custom technology solutions are proven educational technologies built around your specific learning objectives and designed to enhance instructor effectiveness, increase student achievement, and improve learning outcomes — often at reduced costs to both institutions and students. Considered by many to be the new academic standard, integration of custom technology into your course is easier than you think.
On Tuesday, October 11th, Chanda Fortuna, Assistant Vice President of Digital Solutions, shares several ideas on how you can engage students and accommodate multiple learning styles by utilizing custom technology solutions in your course.
Presenter:
Chanda Fortuna
Assistant Vice President Digital Sales
Pearson Learning Solutions
Online Learning: Are You the Driver or the Mechanic?
Duration: 59 minutes
There once was a time when racecar drivers built their own cars. Engines were simpler then. The range of choices in parts and technology was far less daunting. Today, winning drivers do just that: they drive, and while they may influence what happens under the hood, they're not building their own cars.
Online learning has followed the same evolution. Where once it was sufficient to build your own basic course site and post materials online, students today expect greater levels of engagement. They use iPads, they play Madden football games that look amazingly real, they access videos on any topic imaginable (including singing cats) with just a few keystrokes.
The bar has been raised. How's a prof to compete?
Answer: Many successful online courses today cast the instructor as the racecar driver – leading the charge and spending quality time with students – while behind the scenes a garage full of experts builds the optimum course to the instructors' specs, using the best available technology.
Hear about one instructor's journey from do-it-all driver/mechanic to focused head of the online class. And, see what one of the world's best racecar-building teams has cooking in the online learning garage.
Savvy instructors welcome. No wrenches required.
Presenters:
Kelly Kirk
Director of Distance Education
Randolph College
Jodi Bolognese
Digital Product Manager
Pearson Learning Solutions
Faculty Preparation for Excellence in Online Teaching
Duration: 53 minutes
Learn how online teaching skills will address a growing market need and the desire of educators, administrators, and education organizations to ensure quality online instruction. Tammy Hall, Director of Academic Services at Louisiana Community and Technical College System, will share her experiences in building an effective online learning program and preparing educators for the unique challenges of online education.
Hundreds of universities, online schools, and professional organizations are trying in their own way to train teachers for delivering education at a distance. Educators, administrators, and education organizations and institutions support the standardizing of online teaching skills, recognizing that strong traditional classroom teaching skills do not necessarily translate into variable online learning environments. Increases in distance learning enrollments in the coming decade will have a profound impact on faculty members' instructional roles, and building online educators' skills is a critical-need component for preparing highly qualified teachers for 21st century schooling.
Presenters:
Tammy Hall
Director of Academic Services
Louisiana Community & Technical College System
Cindy Lohan
Sr. Product Manager, Professional Online Educator
Pearson Learning Solutions
The end of Proctoring? Best Practices for Student ID Verification
Duration: 54 minutes
Are you concerned about student aid fraud and academic integrity violations?
Would you like to be sure that your online students are really who they say they are at all times throughout the course?
Would you (& your students)like to save the time and expense associated with proctored exams?
Join Dr. Mark Sarver from EduKan and Jeff Maynard of Biometric Signature ID as we discuss a strategy for student identification for online learners. We'll highlight how EduKan has integrated an online student identity verification technology called BioSig-ID™ through Pearson LearningStudio to identify all their students who log in from any computer or portable device based on how they move their mouse, touchpad or touch screen. EduKan is well on their way to eliminate proctoring and have a budget win by using BioSig-ID. Find out how.
Presenters:
Dr. Mark Sarver
Chief Executive Officer
EduKan
Jeff Maynard
President and Founder
Biometric Signature ID
