Online best practice presentation1

Great Online Courses
Using the LAVC Best Practice Tool

When We Began Types of Reactions to Online Learning 3

Thank Goodness You’re Here

What’s Online Learning?

Death to Online Learning!!

Online Learning is now an accepted Piece of Curriculum

Approved Classes Classes 1 22 151

Instructors Trained Trained 1 45 258

Classes Offered Offered 32 47 248

Online Students 373 743 9940

3 Different Subject Areas Diversity of Classes from 1999-2002

40 Different Subject Areas Diversity of Classes by 2011

Focus on Quality Now we must....

Who is in Charge? Who makes the decisions about online teaching?

Los Angeles Mission College Requires a significant % of an online class to be completed and approved by Distance Education Committee before the class can be offered

Los Angeles Trade Tech Limits an online instructor on how much of their teaching load can be taught online.

East Los Angeles College Requires online instructors to take additional pedagogy training in online instruction before they may teach online.

Los Angeles Valley College Leaves all decisions on who teaches what courses to the Department Chairs

Department Chairs Decide what online course(s) to offer and who will teach them.

What do you look for in an Online Course?

More than one way to teach online. But there are some general, useful concepts.

C ampus D istance E ducation C ommittee Created a Distance Learning Best Practices Tool

Best Practices Tool Not an evaluation tool

Best Practices Tool
But a
cooperative,
work together,
improve the class
increase student success
Tool

Best Practices Tool
COURSE ACCESSIBILITY and COPYRIGHT
Parts
COURSE OVERVIEW AND INTRODUCTION
COURSE ORGANIZATION and CONTENT
LEARNER/INSTRUCTOR INTERACTION
LEARNER ASSESSMENT

Announcement Introduction
Course Layout Understandable
Syllabus Posted
Instructor Introduction
Student Introductions

Make the Class Understandable Create Positive Mood

“ Hello, I am very excited for this class! I like how well you explain everything because to be honest I had no idea what was going on! Let's learn somethin'!!” -- student in first week of class The goal is to get the following type of reaction to your class....

Appropriate Course Chunking
Unit Preview Provided
Text and Visual Content
Weblinks Provided
Audio and Video Content

Logical Structure Key is Variety

Announcements Made
Instructor - Student Interaction
Student - Student Interaction
Realtime Sessions Offered
Timely Instructor Responses

Keep Your Students Stimulated

Communication Opportunities “ Tribal Learning” Give your students We call learning from each other...

LEARNER ASSESSMENT
Multiple Methods of Assessment
Grading Policy Understandable
Assessments Appropriate to Online Learning

LEARNER ASSESSMENT
Variety of Assessments Effective Use of Online Assessments

Effort to Recognize ADA Requirements
No Apparent Violations of Copyright Law

Best Practices Tool
Parts
LEARNER ASSESSMENT

Chair Resources Start with the LAVC webpage and select “Online Classes”

Chair Resources

Chair Resources user id: virtualvalley2@lavc.edu password: guest

Chair Resources

An Online Class is not A Correspondence Course

“ Build it and they will come” “ and Stay and Learn .”

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