1. UW System Learning Technology
Development Council Showcase
Presentation
George Krueger
UW-Platteville
Assistant Professor--Marketing

2. Today
• Opportunities for remote guest speakers
• How it works
• Benefits
• Issues
• Demonstration

3. Colle & McVoy
• Major league advertising agency
headquartered in Minneapolis

4. Bringing Remote Speakers Into The
Classroom
• Travel issues
• Time issues
• Preparation issues
• Constant “churn” and change in the marketing
environment
• Interesting for the students
• Great opportunity

5. How To Use
• D2L
• Test, test, test
• Be sure that the presenter knows how to use
the technology
• Coach the remote speaker on the presentation
• Record the session
• Edit later

6. Watch Out!!
• Technology on the presenter’s end needs to
be adequate—test!!
• Message!
• Be sure the classroom technology is
adequate—test!!
• Clearly communicate the objectives to the
presenter

7. Benefits
• Current information
• Practitioners perspective
• Students relate to videos
• Guest speakers who would not travel in
person but are willing to present to students

8. Summary
• Great tool when you have:
– Compelling speaker
– Compelling message
– Technology success
• Adds a new tool to achieve student learning
outcomes
• When used correctly it works great
• Leverage the effort with the recording for
future uses

9. Summary Continued
• Student like the tool
• Highly relevant
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