This will be the basis of presentations on Effective, Efficient Teaching Practices, Technologies, and Pedagogy in a Recession

To one degree or another, all institutions, faculty members, and students are impacted by the recession. We will examine modes and methods that will enable us to best serve the online student in the most efficient and effective ways possible given sharply reduced budgets.

• Pedagogy (constructivist approaches at a scale that promotes efficiencies and recognizes the changing context of the learners' lives)
• Technology (the best of Web 2.0 - free and cost-effective online technologies for engaged online teaching)
• Class Sizes (collaboration strategies, peer mentors, discussion design)
• Responding to the recession-stressed student (special considerations in course design and accommodations without compromising quality)
• Assessment (more important than ever - formative and summative) - assuring that we do not compromise quality at higher levels of efficiency and economy