1. 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

2. Course Home Page

3. Course Overview

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5. Course Facilitators

6. Assignments

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8. Week 1 Assignment Course Design: The Big Picture

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10. Discussion Forums

11. Week 1 Course Discussion: Going Online

12. Sample Online Reading

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14. 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

15. 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.”