Learning Through Technology: An Engaging, Practical, and User Friendly Approach
Online training and education in social work, as well the use of technology in general, can be intimidating and expensive. Is it possible to find approachable and cost effective ways to use these tools to reach today's students and practitioners? This interactive workshop presents an evidence-based, motivating approach to engaging the valuable tools of online and mobile training and education.
As a result of this training, participants will be able to:
1. Identify strategies for overcoming obstacles to technology adoption.
2. Describe how to integrate common technologies (e.g., social media) into teaching and training.
3. Articulate new, innovative, user-friendly methods to online and mobile teaching and training.
David Cecil, PhD, LCSW is a tenured professor in the Asbury University MSW Program and chairs the Behavioral Sciences Department. His private practice, David P. Cecil, PhD, LCSW Individual and Family Counseling, is in Wilmore, Kentucky. He specializes in individual and family counseling that includes areas of depression, anxiety, substance dependence, and relational difficulty. He has published and presented nationally and internationally on topics of cognitive-behavioral modalities, motivational interviewing, program and practice evaluation, teaching practice models, and technology use. He recently contributed a chapter to the Essential Clinical Social Work Series (Tosone & Rosenberger, 2012) and published on Russian substance abuse treatment in Substance Use and Misuse (Stoltzfus & Cecil, 2013). He served as Board President for the North American Association of Christians in Social Work (2009-2011) and currently serves as president-elect on the Kentucky Society for Clinical Social work Board of Directors.
Stephen Baldridge, PhD, LMSW received his MSSW and Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Arlington. He has researched, taught, and implemented the use of mobile learning consistently over the past few years in his courses. In his work with the first-ever Mobile Learning Initiative on a college campus, he has established some of the current best practices for social media and mobile learning both in and out of the classroom. His research, presentations, and publications include areas surrounding mobile learning, remote teaching, and using social media to create learning communities. As director of the undergraduate social work program at Abilene Christian University, Stephen has incorporated a number of students not only in his mobile learning research, but also in several publications and presentations at national/international conferences.