Dan Doherty has expertise in the use of technology for learning, employing blended instructional strategies, and helping participants have fun in their learning. He believes in creating active and authentic learning experiences.
Dan facilitates Instructional Skills Workshops (ISW) and trains facilitators for the ISW and Technology-Mediated Teaching (TMT) workshops. Dan was a founding trainer for the TMT in California and Alberta. He also teaches courses on Instructional Media and Elements of Instruction for the Provincial Instructor Diploma Program in British Columbia.
Dan is an advocate for videoconferencing, and co-produced two years of the BC Virtual Open House, a unique educational videoconference event. Dan managed the audio-visual department at a community college in British Columbia from 1986 to 2000. He now works at the same college as an AV Technologist half time, while consulting and teaching in online learning, instructional skills, and telehealth.
Dan developed a framework that can help an organization develop a sustainable professional development program that uses conventional and online activities. Other courses or workshops Dan facilitates include managing digital media (scanners, digital cameras, etc.), PowerPoint, Design & Use of Instructional Media, Classroom Design, and Genealogy Research & Publishing on the Web.
Dan wrote the Educational Technology ToolKit: a guide to new technologies in the classroom (1996). These materials were used as resources in Technology-Mediated Teaching (TMT) workshops and TMT Facilitator Trainings. Dan is the webmaster for several community organizations.
Dan holds an Associate of Arts Diploma in Communicative Arts (radio, TV, journalism, and graphic design) and a Master of Arts degree in Distributed Learning (distance and e-learning). He also has completed the course work for the British Columbia Provincial Instructor Diploma.
You will find Dan's approach enthusiastic, constructive, innovative, solution focused and client-centred.
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