How will your college accommodate the largest high school class in history, without spending money you don't have on expensive new infrastructure? The obvious answer, as many administrators have already figured out, is offering more classes online—provided you can attract students to those classes.

Purchase this indispensible new webinar from the Academy for Academic Leadership (AAL),

“Doubling Your Online Enrollment.”

The class of 2009 is projected to be the largest group of high school graduates ever—and the growth won’t stop there. College enrollments are expected to increase 16% by 2015.

To handle that huge influx of students--especially as operating budgets continue to be slashed--colleges must learn to maximize their online growth potential. Online courses utilize your college’s existing technical infrastructure, require little or no new physical space, and provide quality educational access for students not served by traditional, face-to-face classes.

Online classes also enable your college to tap into the lucrative international, corporate, and military markets. Within online courses, there are literally no boundaries.

For students, too, the advantages are many. Studies show that online courses tend to be more student-centered, to provide more flexibility, and to be more interactive than face-to-face courses. They also offer students greater opportunities to write while promoting life-long learning in a virtual environment--which is exactly where most of them will spend their careers.

“Doubling Your Online Enrollment,” the new webinar from AAL, will show you how to:

• Build a quality online program--quickly
• Create an online community for students
• Develop and support a cadre of dedicated online teaching professionals
• Adapt your teaching strategies to make the most of the online environment
• Evaluate and assess your online courses
• Market your online program, both internally and externally
• Educate current and prospective students about the advantages of online courses
• Deal with issues like copyright and plagiarism

Who should purchase this Webinar:

• Deans
• Provosts
• Academic Affairs Administrators
• Directors of Distance/Online Learning
• Directors of Centers for Teaching and Learning

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Featured Presenters:

Rob Jenkins, M.A.
Best known for his popular “Two-Year Track” columns in The Chronicle of Higher Education, Rob Jenkins has earned a national reputation as an advocate for community colleges and as an authority on two-year college issues. During his 23-year career—all spent at two-year schools—he has served as a part-time faculty member, a full-time faculty member, a department chair, an academic dean, and a program director. He is currently associate professor of English and director of The Writers Institute at Georgia Perimeter College, a large, multi-campus, urban/suburban community college in Atlanta. Rob holds a master’s degree in writing from the University of Tennessee, and his stories, essays, and poems have appeared in a number of outlets, including The Clearing House, Southern Poetry Review, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and The Gwinnett Daily Post. In recent years he has also come to be in some demand as a speaker, addressing faculty, staff, and student groups on a variety of two-year and four-year college campuses around the country.

Debi Moon, J.D.
A graduate of the University of Tennessee and UT Law School, Debi Moon has served as the Assistant Vice President of Educational Affairs at Georgia Perimeter College, the Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning, the Director of the Center for Distance-Learning and as a Associate Professor of Business. She is the recipient of the National Teaching Excellence Award and was a Governor’s Teaching Fellow in the State of Georgia. In the last four years, her centers won the Best Practices Award for Academic Affairs from the University System of Georgia, placed in the top 10 finalists nationally for the Community Colleges Futures Assembly Bellwether Award, and she was awarded the national Wagner Award for Innovation for her work in faculty development in online learning.

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