1. The document discusses best practices for online courses at Los Angeles Valley College (LAVC) as outlined in their Distance Learning Best Practices Tool. 2. The tool provides guidelines for course design across different areas like course overview/introduction, organization, learner interaction, and assessment. 3. It emphasizes creating a positive learning environment, incorporating a variety of content and assessments, and promoting interaction between students and instructors.

1. Great Online Courses Using the LAVC Best Practice Tool

2. When We Began Types of Reactions to Online Learning 3

3. Thank Goodness You’re Here

4. What’s Online Learning?

5. Death to Online Learning!!

6. Online Learning is now an accepted Piece of Curriculum

7. Approved Classes Classes 1 22 151

8. Instructors Trained Trained 1 45 258

9. Classes Offered Offered 32 47 248

10. Online Students 373 743 9940

11. 3 Different Subject Areas Diversity of Classes from 1999-2002

12. 40 Different Subject Areas Diversity of Classes by 2011

13. 40 Different Subject Areas Diversity of Classes by 2011

14. Focus on Quality Now we must....

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

16. 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

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

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

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

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

21. What do you look for in an Online Course?

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

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

24. Best Practices Tool Not an evaluation tool

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

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

27. COURSE OVERVIEW AND INTRODUCTION Announcement Introduction Course Layout Understandable Syllabus Posted Instructor Introduction Student Introductions

28. COURSE OVERVIEW AND INTRODUCTION Make the Class Understandable Create Positive Mood

29. COURSE OVERVIEW AND INTRODUCTION “ 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....

30. COURSE ORGANIZATION and CONTENT Appropriate Course Chunking Unit Preview Provided Text and Visual Content Weblinks Provided Audio and Video Content

31. COURSE ORGANIZATION and CONTENT Logical Structure Key is Variety

32. LEARNER/INSTRUCTOR INTERACTION Announcements Made Instructor - Student Interaction Student - Student Interaction Realtime Sessions Offered Timely Instructor Responses

33. LEARNER/INSTRUCTOR INTERACTION Keep Your Students Stimulated

34. LEARNER/INSTRUCTOR INTERACTION Communication Opportunities “ Tribal Learning” Give your students We call learning from each other...

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

36. LEARNER ASSESSMENT Variety of Assessments Effective Use of Online Assessments

37. COURSE ACCESSIBILITY and COPYRIGHT Effort to Recognize ADA Requirements No Apparent Violations of Copyright Law

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

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

40. Chair Resources

41. Chair Resources

42. Chair Resources

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

44. Chair Resources

45. Chair Resources

46. An Online Class is not A Correspondence Course

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