Heidie Ganjineh Hutchinson, MSIS

• Presentation Location: World Universities Forum 2015, Savannah, Georgia, Georgia Southern University, Coastal Georgia Center

• Title and Description of the Presention:

Converting In-ground Courses to Online Courses:

A Workshop in the Application of Best Practices

Dr. Richard Michael Kessner, Supply Chain and Information Mangement Group, D'Amore-McKim School of Business, Northeastern University, Boston, MA.

Professor Heidie Ganjineh Hutchinson, Computer Information Systems/Telecommunications, Community College of Beaver County, Monaca, PA.

Overview: We provide a systematic approach to the conversion of traditional in-ground university courses into successful online courses. University and Community College examples will be employed.

• Presentation Catagory: Teaching and Learning

• Session Type: Workshop

• Date and Time: Friday, Feb 6, 2015, 11:15-12:00.

(Source: The Eightn World Universities Forum| Georgia Southern University | Coastal Georgia Center | Savannah, Georgia |

5-6 February 2015| Pages 34, 37)

• Goals, Objectives, and Process of  the Presentation:

During the previous year's World Universities Form conference, at Lisbon, Portugal, I met Dr. Richard Kessner who was attending that conference because of his 2013 best seller book, "Building an Asynchronous Learning Experience: A Practical Approach to Online Course Development".

We started talking about teaching and learning online courses, discussing pros and cons of universty level online courses, and the problems with converting in-ground courses into online courses.

It was at that conference that we decided jointly write and  publish a book providing a systematic approch to converting traditional university level in-ground courses into a successful online courses.

Most of our Summer 2015 was spent writing the book and preparing a presentation about the book at the following year's conference (Eight WUF Conference at Savannah Georgia).

Common Ground Publishing, the publisher of our book, provided us with three different peer reviewers who read and provided us feedback about the first draft of our book. After some revisions, our book was ready to be published by Common Ground Publishing Company.

A copy of published accepted proposal for our pressention is available, as well as our bios are available here.

A copy of our PowerPoint Presentation at the Eighth WUF Conference is available here.

A copy of Conference Program 2014 (Full Program) is available here.

A copy of our book: "Transforming and Established In-ground Course for Use as an Online Course:A Model, Methods, and Case Study"  is available here.