1 / 16

Designing Online Courses

Designing Online Courses. Barbara Treacy July 16, 2014. Today ’ s focus. Identify key questions about online course design Discuss key elements and key challenges in online course design Engage in hands-on exploration of online activities to prepare online designers

xerxes
Download Presentation

Designing Online Courses

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Designing Online Courses Barbara Treacy July 16, 2014

  2. Today’s focus • Identify key questions about online course design • Discuss key elements and key challenges in online course design • Engage in hands-on exploration of online activities to prepare online designers • Explore courses to identify elements of effective online design • Share resources to support ongoing learning about effective design • Wrap-up

  3. Key Questions • What’s different about online design? • How do we adapt face-to-face content for online delivery? • How is online content designed so it’s interactive and engaging? • How is learning in the online environment assessed? • How do we keep the focus on content and pedagogy and not on the technology? • How are learning communities integrated into online courses? • Your questions? Discuss: What do you want to learn about online design?

  4. Key Resources for Online Course Design • iNACOL Online Course Standards • ETLO Online Course Criteria • Online Course Consortium Quality Framework • Quality Matters

  5. Gary’s Social Media Count http://www.personalizemedia.com/media/socmedcounter.swf

  6. “The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.” -Alvin Toffler

  7. “Fast, easy, guaranteed ...pick none. That's the work that's worth doing.” -Seth Godin, author

  8. Discuss What are the elements of an effective course – not specifically online?

  9. Elements • Engaging • Student driven • Tied to standards • Learning goals are clear • Learning is quantifiable • Adaptable • Collaborative • focused

  10. What’s Different about Online Design? • Content: Different structure of content • Technology: Increasing choice of tools; some will disappear quickly and technical issues can occur regularly • Accessibility: Online learning increases access but access and accessibility issues must be addressed • Social dynamic: Different interaction methods & pacing; new strategies needed to address cohort & individual needs • Discussion: Specific facilitation strategies needed; importance of written communication and “online voice” • Assessment: New tools available but new strategies needed • Facilitation and design: Labor intensive activities!

  11. More on Accessibility Needs • Video and audio: requires captioning, transcripts, ability to pace to be fully accessible • Multi-media requirements not activated in schools • Image descriptions needed for webpages/documents • PDF’s used to not be accessible to many screen readers; now they have some great accessibility features! • CMS’s are generally designed to address accessibility but won’t insure uploaded content is accessible For more info and to test accessibility of a webpage: http://webaim.org

  12. Course Design Criteria • Course Structure and Design • Content Organization, Session Organization, Main Page, Navigation, Design Elements, Interactivity • Course Content • Overview, Goals, Course Requirements, Session Introduction, Readings, Activities, Discussion, Assessment http://courses.edtechleaders.org/html_cores/trainingcores/ocd/documents/online-course-elements.html Is one more important: Content or Design?

  13. http://moodle.etlo.org Username and PW: blc Explore the course and discuss: What are the key differences in designing for f2f vs. online or blended? What are the benefits of learning to design in the online environment? What did you find most useful in the course?

  14. Apply: Explore and apply criteria 1. Common Core courses (learning community) http://moodle.etlo.org Username and PW: Webinar or 2. Intel Easy Steps Tech Literacy course (self-paced) http://dev.ezsteps.edc.org/home Username: btreacy@edc.org PW: blcblc Discuss: What design principles did you notice?

  15. “The change we are in the middle of isn’t minor and isn’t optional” -Clay Shirky, Author and Professor, NYU

  16. Thank you! Barbara Treacy btreacy@edc.org EdTech Leaders Online http://edtechleaders.org Education Development Center http://edc.org

More Related