Teaching Online: A Short Course for New Online Faculty NERCOMP Annual Conference March 21, 2007 Glenn LeBlanc, University College Lida Pinkham, University of Maine at Presque Isle
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Course Overview
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Week 1 Assignment Course Design: The Big Picture
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Discussion Forums
Week 1 Course Discussion: Going Online
Sample Online Reading
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Getting experience with the tools Week 1 – online readings, discussion board, survey, course plan assignment (posting a document) Week 2 – online readings, discussion board Week 3 – online readings, discussion board, assignment tool, digital drop box, quiz, collaboration tools Week 4 – online readings, discussion board, small group work for unit/module assignment Week 5 – online readings, discussion board, posting a document
The result “I felt that the course was very constructive for me. I would never have explored the nooks and crannies of Blackboard on my own. And it would have taken me years to form that crucial conceptual map between what I teach, how best to teach it, and how to use the available tools to teach it well.”