Professional Development Webinars

In 2017, there were over 12 million children living in poverty (Children's Defense Fund). It is imperative for educators to understand the foundations regarding the principles of teaching to the poverty mindset, if the goal is to help people (students) out of poverty. 
By the end of this webinar attendees will be able to: 
- Identify poverty and its effect on the student mindset. 
- Employ the fundamental foundations of teaching students in poverty. 
- Apply the integration of these principles into curriculum using an inclusive approach 

Virtual Team Building with Purpose takes on some of the top virtual team challenges and counters them with ways to create team member engagement and participation. Using our Long Distance Leadership Model™, during this presentations the presenter will:

1. Provide a structure for matching the right activities for the right challenge in virtual team environments.
2. Review a ten ideas for virtual team building activities.

For attending this webinar, the presenter will also offer a FREE virtual team assessment and 30-minute consultation that will provide unique insight for your organization's virtual team considerations.

Over the last year, NIGP: The Institute for Public Procurement, a non-profit education provider for the public procurement discipline, systematically reevaluated how we engage our learning community. Building upon traditional learning methodologies, we embarked on a new journey, incorporating competency models, certificates and traveling badges, and learner-centrism alongside a new learning management system to cultivate learner-led experiences based on individualized professional goals. While not new, these individual facets combined to transform NIGP’s learning capability, revolutionizing our learning landscape to provide practical and impactful learning experiences for new and returning members alike. 
Using the Institute’s “Learning Reimagined” initiative as a case study, Laura Shelters, the Director of Content Research and Development, and Bradley Davis, the Content Editor, explore how learning organizations can challenge both themselves and their stakeholders to stay on the cutting edge of the new-age learning environment and on the right side of IACET-endorsed methodologies. By the end of the presentation, attendees will be able to: 

• Discuss membership and engagement challenges as they relate to non-profit organizations worldwide. 
• Determine key elements of a learner-centric environment. 
• Identify techniques and methodologies that can be used to curate an organizational culture of life-long learning.

In today's world of high-bandwidth media, restrictions on training delivery modes have been erased. Video with audio narration is very popular, prompting training developers to convert formerly text-based training to audio/video-based(timeline-driven) training.

At the conclusion of this webinar, you will be able to:

• Describe the method used to calculate the CEU value of self-paced versus paced (timeline-driven) training
• Explain the special considerations of achieving the same learning outcomes with training times that can vary by more than 300%
• Discuss the various approaches that can be taken to equitable treatment of learners who choose one training modality over another

In this presentation we will discuss the experience of Al-Quds Open University in providing continuing education and lifelong learning to the communities living in remote and marginalized areas as well as the communities suffering from poverty and underdeveloped services. Additionally, we will discuss how the continue education industry can benefit from distance education features to provide lifelong learning opportunities to all segments of the community. By the end of this session, students will be able to: 

• Recognize the role of open education in catering to the continuing education needs of diversified groups of students. 
• Discuss the open education concept in an occupied and segmented country as a means to provide continuous education and lifelong learning opportunities (“Education at your doorstep”). 
• Identify how open education and technological environments increase the role of continue education. 

This webinar will present the basic principles of personal behavioral traits encountered in the classroom resulting in enhanced communication with learners. By the end of this session students will be able to: 

• Identify different learning styles 
• Employ learning styles to increase communication in the classroom 
• Recognize how behavior understanding reflects knowledge retention