I Have to Know What??!! Online Teaching Competencies Adapted from “Online Teaching Facilitation Course: Core Competencies: And Illinois Online Teacher Competencies:

The Good News… You don’t have to learn everything at once You don’t have to do it all by yourself Workshop opportunities provide just the training you need, when you need it, in the format that works best for you

Online Teaching Roles Web-enhancing on-ground courses Facilitating Online Courses Developing fully-online courses

Recommended Strategy Start with web-enhancing on-ground classes Start small –Syllabus –Calendar –Readings/Handouts Add additional features as your knowledge grows: –WebCT –Role of online environment in your courses/discipline

Competencies Technical Skills Pedagogical Skills

Technical Skills - Basic –Put syllabus online –Customize your course home page –Use WebCT –Use WebCT discussion tool Create discussion topics Participate in discussion threads –Create and use file attachments with s and discussion posts

Technical Skills - Basic Post entries to the WebCT calendar Prepare course for new trimester Use WebCT “Track Student” tool to monitor student activity/participation in a course

Technical Skills - Intermediate Content Presentation –Edit existing course documents (change syllabus, fix broken links, add additional information, etc.) –Search the Internet to locate appropriate teaching resources

Technical Skills - Intermediate Content Presentation –Upload and link PowerPoint Presentations, single documents, etc. –Create a link to a Web resource

Assessment –Create and Administer online quizzes/exams Create quizzes using WebCT and Respondus Establish quiz settings Grade manually-scored test items Technical Skills - Intermediate

Assessment –Create and grade assignments online Assignment tool Downloading, grading and uploading graded assignments to students Technical Skills - Intermediate

Manage WebCT Grade Book –Create grade book columns for manually- graded course elements –Post manually-graded activities to course grade book –Override automatically posted grades as necessary

Technical Skills - Advanced Use WebCT tools to create a navigable course structure (Content Modules and Organizer Pages) Create and save content materials in appropriate Web formats (e.g., html, swf, etc.)

Technical Skills - Advanced Provide guidance to students experiencing problems using WebCT tools. Restructure a Publisher Course

Technical Skills Advanced Design and develop assessment strategies appropriate for learning objectives and the online environment.

Pedagogical Skills - Basic Understand the relative strengths and weaknesses of traditional and online learning environments Apply good teaching practices to the incorporation of online components into web- enhanced courses Understand the student experience of online learning Model effective online interaction and communication

Apply facilitation strategies to encourage student-content interaction, critical thinking, and movement from theory to practice. Moderate online discussions to achieve effective levels of student-student interaction Pedagogical Skills - Intermediate

Pedagogical Competencies - Advanced Design instruction that utilizes the unique characteristics of the online learning environment to effectively address learning objectives Determine appropriate online teaching strategies for specified learning objectives Present/explain content clearly in the online environment Design learning activities that engage students in student-content and student-student interactions

Pedagogical Competencies - Advanced Design course elements to assure that the course is ‘teachable’ –Appropriate student-faculty interaction –Adequate feedback to students regarding academic performance –Reasonable number of online hours required of teaching faculty

Pedagogical Competencies - Advanced Design and develop assessment strategies appropriate for learning objectives and the online environment. Utilize facilitation strategies that create a ‘community of learners’ environment in the online classroom

Developing Online Teaching Competencies Faculty Development –Faculty Workshops –Consulting Services

Faculty Development: Online Workshops –Self-paced –Facilitated –Learn what you need when you need it –Open entry – you can start at any time

Faculty Development: Face-to-Face Workshops –Scheduled annually (typically each workshop is offered once a year) –Repeats online workshops in face-to-face format –Additional training for specific content development tools (e.g., Viewlet Builder, Camtasia, Captivate)

Online Teaching “Labs” –Scheduled in conjunction with Face-to-face Workshops –Tool/Procedure-specific –Fully ‘hands on’ –Open to faculty who attend face-to-face workshops or to those who are completing the workshops online Faculty Development:

Facilitating Online Courses at GSU –Prepares faculty to teach an online course Facilitation strategies Minimal subset of WebCT tools needed to teach a course that is already online and ready-to-go –This workshop is offered only in an online format Faculty Development: Online Workshops

WebCT Basic Training – –Prepares faculty to use WebCT tools to web- enhance on-ground courses Most Extensive Workshop Series Focuses on Use of WebCT tools from the designer/instructor perspective Provides the technical base faculty will need in order to develop fully-online and hybrid courses Faculty Development: Online Workshops

Web-Enhanced to Fully Online –Builds on the WebCT Basic Training workshop sequence –Focuses on instructional design and pedagogical issues

To Preview Workshops –User id = fsiguest –Password = fsiguest

To Sign Up for an Online Workshop Contact –Jan Engle x 3073 –Barbara Mandel x 4940

Face-to-Face Workshops Will begin in the Fall Schedule will be published on the Faculty Resource Home Page available from the WebCT login page.

Online Teaching “Labs” Will be scheduled and announced in conjunction with On-ground workshops beginning in the Fall. During the Summer … –Individual ‘labs’ during Drop-in Consulting Hours Center for Online Teaching and Learning C2311 3:00 – 4:30 Tuesdays and Thursdays –Individual ‘labs’ by appointment Jan Engle – x3073 Barbara Mandel – x4940

Consulting Course design Restructuring publisher courses Selecting content presentation tools to meet teaching objectives Content development Designing/developing authentic assessments Designing/structuring student-student interactions Designing/structuring collaborative projects Application of WebCT tools to a specific course

Help! Center for Online Teaching and Learning –Gary Fisk: ex: –Jan Engle: ex: –Barbara Mandel: Online –Discussion boards in Faculty Development course shells