3. Facilitating
Education
Main role of the instructor
Encourage students to
participate in discussions
Provide different learning
opportunities for students
Provide authentic
assessments
5. Roles & Functions
Instructor Students
Facilitator of Active
learning participants
Creates rules Suggests
& guidelines improvements
Interacts with Interacts with
students students
Expert Builds and
knowledge expands
knowledge
Paloff & Pratt (2007), p. 109
7. Building the Online
Community
Allow personal and social interactions
Recognizing and responding to student input
How can we do this?
Group projects?
Live collaboration?
9. Defining Outcomes
and Objectives
Use the ADDIE model
Work with the end in mind
Consider how the students
will demonstrate mastery
in the online format
What assessments will be
used?
11. Sequencing the
Course
Do things in a logical order
Provide structure for the students
Be explicit with you want the students to do
Essentially, become a behaviorist
13. Course Activities
Activities should relate directly to goals
and objectives
Take a “business approach”
Bring resources to the students
Don’t forget collaboration
How does this fit?
Why am I doing it?
15. Building the Site
Make the syllabus clearly visible
Set guidelines and procedures
early and make them prominent
Be sure your contact
information is available
Instructor
expectations
Student expectations
