ADOBE CONNECT TUTORIALS
What is Adobe Connect?
The mission of online instruction at Southern Adventist University is to provide quality education through effective communication for learners at a distance. Education and knowledge are accessible through the many communication means that innovative technologies provide. Instructors in an online environment must be prepared to develop new approaches and new skills in order to create empowering learning experiences.
Adobe Connect is one of those methods. This software allows the instructor to provide a live presence in their course and share software, procedures and presentations with their students. In addition, Adobe Connect allows the instructor to gather information from the students, allow students to present, and supports the creation of group sessions. These are only a few of many other collaboration tools Adobe Connect provides.
Watch the following live session on using Adobe Connect
Why is this important?
The outcome of a well-constructed online course is reflective/transformative learning (Palloff & Pratt, 2007). Online courses may use a number of strategies and media to communicate, such as discussion boards, content modules and recorded media segments. These do not replace the need for live communication where students and instructor can hear each other, see each other, and share content.
The purpose of this training material is to familiarize online instructors with Adobe Connect. This live interaction platform can be a useful communication and collaboration tool in online courses allowing for the active creation of teacher presence, social presence, and cognitive presence. Additionally, the module will provide a step-by-step tutorial on how to navigate within Adobe Connect and will lay the foundation for utilizing the tool to share documents.