PUTTING YOUR COURSE ONLINE Teaching Online by Susan Ko and Steve Rossen

Teaching Online by Susan Ko and Steve Rossen

Learning is interactive when learners are actively engaged in a variety of activities, and along with their peers and teacher, they are co-constructors of knowledge. The learning environment provides a sense of a learning community within which participants collaborate with others to negotiate and share meanings. -Chamberlain & Vrasidas, 2001

INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGN Chapter 3, p36-64 NOT – a repository for your lectures and syllabus - put directly online What is important An outline of your notes Any slides or resource materials, pdf, ppt

Chapter 3, p36-64

NOT – a repository for your lectures and syllabus - put directly online

What is important

An outline of your notes

Any slides or resource materials, pdf, ppt

QUESTIONS TO ADDRESS (P46-47) Self-paced? Course flow? How many students? Audience (grade level, content) Type of D.I. needs Type of Internet access they have (do a survey) Available materials and resources, CD of quizzes or tests from the book publisher Type of support you can expect

Self-paced?

Course flow?

How many students?

Audience (grade level, content)

Type of D.I. needs

Type of Internet access they have (do a survey)

Available materials and resources, CD of quizzes or tests from the book publisher

Type of support you can expect

DESIGN QUESTIONS Collaborative, peer review appropriate Assessments – portfolio, m/c, essay, self-assessment, reports, projects, presentations Student-centered vs. Instructor-led Preferred ways to present content Web resources, PPT, flash, videos, handouts Equipment in your classroom Lab, projector, overhead

Collaborative, peer review appropriate

Assessments – portfolio, m/c, essay, self-assessment, reports, projects, presentations

Student-centered vs. Instructor-led

Preferred ways to present content

Web resources, PPT, flash, videos, handouts

Equipment in your classroom

Lab, projector, overhead

SYLLABUS + LEARNING CONTRACTS Syllabus = Course RoadMap (eg p. 78-80) Learning contract Students setting goals, engaging and having a stake in their learning Importance of Clear expectations Clear knowledge of their content expectations or state standards to be met

Syllabus = Course RoadMap (eg p. 78-80)

Learning contract

Students setting goals, engaging and having a stake in their learning

Importance of Clear expectations

Clear knowledge of their content expectations or state standards to be met

AVOID SHOVELWARE The shoveling of classroom content online with no thought to its effectiveness. It is really impossible to take a completely on-ground, traditional classroom course and move it online.

The shoveling of classroom content online with no thought to its effectiveness.

It is really impossible to take a completely on-ground, traditional classroom course and move it online.