NEW! Virtual Meeting Planner Certificate

Finally, you can acquire the best professional development in virtual meeting planning. Plus get the option of being recognized for your knowledge by becoming a Certified Virtual Meeting Planner (CVP). 
Virtual meetings are distance seminars and education featuring audio, slides and video in a synchronous format. They include webinars, webcasts, video casts, two-way web cams, and other audio and video formats.

Discover the various synchronous distance meeting formats available and learn about the technology of producing distance meetings.  Then get the best instructional techniques on the design and teaching of effective distance or virtual meetings.  Lastly, acquire the virtual meeting planning skills involved in budgeting, pricing, and marketing virtual meetings. 

Larry Ray, COI, Debbie Kopkau, and William Draves, COI, instructors. Online certificate,  three one month online courses, and optional certification exam for CVP designation, September-November,  just $795 total.

Individual Courses

Virtual Meeting Technology

Discover the various synchronous distance meeting formats available and learn about the technology of producing distance meetings. Get introduced to synchronous learning technologies. Then learn about the technology used to produce webinars, webcasts, video streaming and webcams. Acquire the knowledge to work with vendors and get started in setting up your system. After the course, you know about virtual meeting technology and will be able to work with a vendor to set up your own virtual meetings.

Larry Ray, COI, instructor.  One-month course offered in September.

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Keys to Effective Design of Virtual Meetings

Come learn how to make virtual meetings work for you and your organization. Explore the different learning formats for virtual meetings that are available. Learn how to design a virtual meeting that will work with your clients/members. Acquire the skills to train instructors on how to lead a virtual meeting. Take home the presentation techniques that best work with a virtual meeting. And be able to provide expert experience and perspective to those presenting and participating in your virtual meetings.  At the end of this course, you will have the keys to the effective design and instruction of virtual meetings. 

Debbie Kopkau, instructor.  One-month course offered in October.

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Managing Virtual Meetings

Discover the keys to success in planning, researching, budgeting, pricing, and marketing virtual meetings.
You’ll take home the most advanced, comprehensive practical how-to information on program planning and marketing available.  Find out the best timeline for planning and marketing webinars, how to do needs assessments and surveys that actually work, how to budget your costs, how to price your webinars, and the most effective ways to promote them. Get information not available anywhere else. 

One month online course, offered November, William A. Draves, instructor.

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ChecklistWhat You do:

  1. In the online classroom, listen to audio lectures, view slides, even take an optional quiz to test yourself.
  2. Then post comments in the online discussion with your fellow participants and the instructor.  Your instructor logs on once a day to answer questions and join in on the discussion.
  3. You also get a text to read 20 pages a week.
  4. Participate any time of day or night, as little or as often as you like. The ideal is to go online 2-3 times a week, but you decide.

It’s easy! It’s fun.

Mac MiniTechnical requirements:
-Internet access with Internet Explorer; Firefox Mozilla; or Safari web browser.
-Audio software such as Windows Media, Real, or Flash.
-Speakers to listen to audio.

Next offerings:

Virtual Meeting Technology
September 7 - October 1, 2010

Keys to Effective Design of Virtual Meetings
October 4 - October 29, 2010

Managing Virtual Meetings
November 1 - November 26, 2010

About Your Instructors

Debbie Kopkau, CMP, CMS, is the Director of Certification/Director of Operations for the Michigan Association of School Boards.  She has been working in associations since 1991.  She specializes in delivery of program content through video conferencing, webinars, and helps instructors create their content to be best received by participants. She has handled logistics and contents for online programs as large as 700 attendees and as small as 5 participants. She is working on her Master’s Degree in Strategic Management at Davenport University. 

Larry A. Ray, COI, is Department Chair of Information Technology, and Computer Science Systems Assistant Professor, at Stark State College of Technology in North Canton, Ohio. He is a Certified Online Instructor and Ph.D. Candidate in Educational Leadership.  He has used virtual meeting technologies and teaches others on creating and running virtual meetings.

William A. Draves, CAE, COI, is President of the Learning Resources Network (LERN), the leading association in continuing education and lifelong learning.  He is the author of “Advanced Teaching Online,”  “How to Teach Adults,”  and editor of  “The Marketing Manual.”  He has organized and presented virtual meetings for five years, using audio and video delivery formats. A speaker and consultant, he trains association educators and others in the assessment, planning and marketing of continuing education events and meetings.  Draves is a Certified Online Instructor and received his graduate degree in adult education from The George Washington University in Washington, DC.