The document discusses creating successful online learning environments. It introduces a workshop on getting started with online courses and discusses checking in with participants about their teaching experiences and what they hope to learn. It also touches on conceptualizing the online learning space and considering where courses fall on the continuum between technology-enhanced, online, and distance learning, as well as knowing students' constraints in terms of time, technology, and distance.

1. Creating Successful Online Learning Environments Getting Started VCC workshop March 2009 Tannis Morgan

2. Introductions (5-10 min) Name College What do you teach? What would you like to learn today?

3. Checking in The course paradigm: We teach courses as chunks of time and topics Each chunk is characterized by content, interactions, and assessed activities Development and delivery engages all of those components Does this reflect your courses or programs?

6. Connecting the Dots

7. Checking in Online delivery allows access and sometimes convenience to the instructors and students True or false?

8. Checking in… The larger context is also a consideration in course development and delivery: student lives, instructor lives, educational systems… anything else to add?

9. Key Questions? (15 min) How do you conceptualize the online learning space? What makes you view it this way? brainstorm as a group

10. Key Questions Where on the continuum--technology enhanced/online or distance--is your course?

11. Ed Tech Continuum

12. Key Questions Who are the students and what are their constraints? eg. time, technology, distance? anything else to add?