Spoke this morning at #aejmc2014 on surviving my first online course as a teacher.Here's the presentation I made.

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• F2F (Seated) Courses: Traditional classroom in which students
attend class & instructor is leader.
• Hybrid Courses: Mix of F2F and online instruction, typically via
CMS such as Blackboard or Moodle. As colleges try to cram more
classes into a calendar, they often turn to hybrid courses in some
way to get enough classroom hours in for accreditation and
assessment purposes.
• Online Courses: Courses meet entirely online via web, video,
social media, email and/or conferencing.

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ONLINE COURSES MOOCs
Restricted to students enrolled in the
college.
Open to anyone with enough hardware
and broadband to join in.
More likely utilized by smaller players that
don’t want to sacrifice smallness.
Marketed by huge players in U.S. higher
education.
Offered for college credit as with any F2F
or hybrid course.
Typically not offering college credit (but
perhaps a certificate).
Higher (but still not great) rates of
completion.
VERRRRRY LOW completion rates. (As low
as 1% at Texas, 4% at Penn.)
Attracts handfuls of students on and off
campus.
Attracts tens of thousands of students
from around the world.

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Students perceive online
courses:
 Are easy to access.
 Provide flexibility.
 Are convenient to enroll in
and complete.

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 Junior/senior level.
 Required for Multimedia
Journalism major/minor.
 Also offers Information
Literacy & Written
Communication credit in
core curriculum.
 F2F Enrollment: 18
 Online Enrollment: 12

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 Moodle-Based CMS for
document
upload/download and
links.
 Facebook for
asynchronous class
discussions.
 WebEx for 2x weekly live
video chats.

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 Started with 12 students.
 3 students never logged in
and were dropped.
 1 could not log into the
CMS and dropped.
 1 was a high school
student and dropped.
 1 disengaged from
course & dropped.

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 Students register because
the course is online, not
because they love what
you’re teaching.
 Many don’t understand
online learning.
 Myth of the Digital Native.
 Let’s talk tech.
 Your workload.