Will you be in Boston next month at the annual conference for the Association for Library & Information Science Education (ALISE)? We will explore practices for online collaborative learning through presentations and breakout discussions on Tuesday, January 12, 2010, 9:00 am – 12:30 pm. Here’s the schedule:

Tuesday, January 12, 2010 – Stanbro Room, Boston Park Plaza Hotel

9:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Keys to Successful Online Collaboration: WISE Pedagogy Workshop

WISE (Web-Based Information Science Education) Consortium and ALISE Distance Education SIG

This workshop is open to all interested conference attendees, especially doctoral students. Activities will address effective practices for collaboration in LIS online education through a participatory series of rotating stations, discussing topics in breakout sessions and interacting directly with presenters.

9:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.

Welcome and Overview of Best Practices in Online Education

This introduction to the workshop will recognize ALISE Award recipients for WISE Faculty of the Year 2009 and discussion of their best practices. Bruce Kingma (Syracuse University); Linda C. Smith and Anne McKinney (University of Illinois)

9:30 a.m. – 11:20 a.m.

Presentations and Breakout Groups

Presenters and breakout leaders will be stationed around the room. Workshop participants may plan to spend 15-20 minutes at each station. There will be a ten-minute break from 10:10 a.m. – 10:20 a.m.

Station #1: Teaching Collaboratively Online through the Prism of Course Content

Presentation provides an overview of LIS online collaborative teaching: theoretical, conceptual, technical, procedural, and literary strategies. Carol Gordon and Sung Un Kim (Rutgers University)

Station #2: Best Practices in the Pedagogical Design and Development of Full-Credit Short Courses

Presentation offers a process-oriented approach to collaborative teaching of a full-credit short course, Online Graphic Novels and Comics, from development to evaluation. Elizabeth Figa and Janet R. Macpherson (University of North Texas)

Station #3: Team Teaching as Online Collaboration

Presentation on co-teaching at a distance: How instructors communicate for development and teaching of online courses when they are not co-located. Lisa Hinchliffe and Melissa Wong (University of Illinois)

Station #4: Fitting Collaborative Activities Into the LIS Curriculum

Breakout discussion on implementation of student collaborative projects in LIS courses. When is collaboration a more effective learning method than individual assignments? Facilitator: Debbie Faires (San Jose State University)

Station #5: Working the Group Work

Breakout discussion of successful strategies for managing student group project assignments. Facilitator: Chip Bruce (University of Illinois)

11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

Conclusion

Discussion of the presentations and breakout sessions and general closure of the workshop: what is the future of online collaboration? Facilitator: Rae-Anne Montague (University of Illinois)

See you in January! In the meantime, have a happy new year!