Kellie Alston

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About Kellie Alston

Hi, I am Kellie Alston and thank you for viewing my profile. I am a passionate and skilled teacher educator who gets up every single day excited about the opportunity to shape and influence America’s future early childhood educators. For over two decades, I have actively served the field of education in an array of positions, and currently, I enjoy being a distance education lecturer at North Carolina Central University. My mission is to not only impact the field of education as a teacher of future teachers but to also support my colleagues in higher education in mastering the art of teaching online using the six pillars of my Virtual Village Distance Learning System. Let’s face it. Distance learning has become a big deal in the 21st century with over 6 million students taking courses online. In fact, the distance education annual growth rate of almost 13% has surpassed the overall higher education growth rate which is just shy of 2%. After spending over15 years honing my own course design and delivery skills at a four-year university, I am now passionate about ensuring that online courses, especially in teacher education, provide a comparable or even higher quality of learning than traditional face-to-face courses. As a result, I have created a professional development site for online faculty at Virtualgogy.com and devote much of my time to studying instructional design and best practices in online pedagogy. If you are a "virtual educator", I would love to teach you how to create a Virtual Village where students love to communicate, collaborate, and co-create- a place where learning commanders are cultivated and enter their fields equipped for the global marketplace. I am confident that I can show you exactly how to create online courses that your students enjoy AND that you love to teach. Visit me at my virtual home. Let's create dynamic learning communities online.together. See you soon!