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Incorporating Scaffolded Scenarios into Your Webinars
Type of Presentation
Roundtable Discussion (45 minutes)
Session Abstract
Improve your webinars by incorporating interactive scaffolded scenarios. Your webinars will be more enjoyable for you, more informative for your students, and more cost-effective for your organization.
Target Audience
If you are or want to become an online educator, then join us! If you currently teach online and need to make your webinars more engaging, informative, and memorable; improve comprehension, interaction, and retention; and increase instructor to student and student to student interaction, then join us. If you are in the development phase of an online course, learn how to reach students efficiently, effectively, and immediately via scaffolded scenarios and reduce development time and initial implementation and associated costs by trying to learn how to best reach your students. Scaffolded scenarios will become your new best practice!
Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this session you will be able to measurably improve instructor to student as well as student to student interaction; measurably increase student comprehension, interaction, and retention; and measurably construct more engaging, informative, and memorable webinars. The constant communication inherent in scaffolded scenario webinars makes your webinars more comparable to face to face classes, simultaneously increasing student interaction and reducing the isolation that some students feel when participating in online classes. Scaffolded scenario webinars also allow adult students to more easily see the applicability of the information presented to their particular work environment.
Session Description
Case studies and scenario-based training have long been valuable instructional methods. Scaffolded scenarios – where one begins with a short scenario and builds upon that same scenario - covers more instructional material than occasional case studies or scenarios, assists students in comprehending more material, replaces the straight lecture format, and builds what is essentially a short story students can better remember. Scaffolded scenarios allow students to place the information presented into context and immediately see the applicability of the materials under discussion, work regardless of the LMS utilized, and are particularly effective in a synchronous webinar setting. Utilizing scaffolded scenarios in webinars more accurately replicates an in-resident experience and meets the interaction needs of extroverts while allowing introverts to feel comfortable asking and answering questions they might not otherwise feel comfortable asking in in-resident classrooms. Scaffolded scenarios can also be incorporated into traditional classrooms resulting in less course development time.
Efforts are made to try to schedule sessions on the day preferred by the Primary Presenter, though this cannot be guaranteed. Please check your preference.
Thursday November 7
Primary Presenter
Melissa Thorpe Hill, MA, NC State University
Work Title
Instructor and Curriculum Developer