ELearning
2. Preparing to teach online
3. Overview of online teaching
4. Online Course Design Principles
5. Help with Distance Learning at GHC
6. Research
7. The Seven Principles of Good Practice
8. Online course review rubrics
9. ELearning Articles (opens new page)
Distance
learning
Distance learning is "a formal educational process in which some or all of the instructional interaction occurs when student and instructor are not in the same place."
Teaching online has unique advantages and challenges: "Creating a distance learning course involves more than replicating familiar classroom strategies in a different form.
Preparing
to teach online
Is
Online Teaching for Me?
Self-evaluation Quiz. This 20-item questionnaire addresses many of the
pertinent areas for self-evaluation.
Facilitating Learning
Online
FLO is an online course offered by North Georgia College for faculty
who are or may be facilitating online courses as well as faculty augmenting
classroom teaching with online course materials.
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Overview of online teaching
Ideas for Distance Learning
These succinct "ideas" are excellent, experience-based
suggestions for building online community, increasing participation,
facilitating communication, and enhancing the use of chat rooms,
discussion boards, etc. in online courses.
Meeting the Challenges of Becoming an Online Course developer
Teaching online poses different challenges than face-to-face instruction. This site describes such challenges and offers suggestions for overcoming them.
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Online
Course Design Principles
The Center for Online Learning at Georgia Southern University
has an excellent site.
Online
Course Design
"The mission of the Center for Online Learning is to promote quality online courses. There is substantial research to indicate what constitutes best practice in online course design and delivery to achieve good student learning outcomes and satisfaction. It is the purpose of this site to set forth guidlines to achieve that end.
Tips for Effective Instruction
Developing effective components of online courses such as discussion groups,chat rooms and syllabi.
Optimizing Your Syllabus for Online Students
Strategies for Promoting Discussion in Your Online Course
Sample Student Handout
General gudelines for students taking online courses.
How to create a "Five Star" online course.
Rubrics for Online Instruction
This site at the University of West Georgia was created to help instructors and other online course designers understand the components that go into making an exceptional online course. We hope that you find the rubrics and examples contained in this site helpful and we encourage you to use any information found here in your courses!
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Help
with Distance Learning at GHC
For a comprehensive list of GHC faculty and staff who can provide you with advice, help and technical assistance with developing online courses.
Download Distance Learning at GHC (pdf) to see recommendations for the College and advice for instructors considering developing a hybrid course or online course.
Research
The Sloan Consortium site has recent (2008) student surveys about Online Learning:
• Online Nation: Five Years of Growth in Online Learning
is based on responses
from over 2,500 colleges and universities.
• Sloan-C's Effective Practices collection
includes practices submitted
by members that have been reviewed, approved, and listed in the Sloan-C
Effective Practices online collection.
Sustainable Hybrids This article in the Sept 2009 issue of "Inside Higher Ed" repors on a small study which suggests that hybrid courses can produce better outcomes than tose offered exclusively online or in the classroom.
The
Seven Principles and Distance Learning
In March 1987, the AAHE Bulletin first published Arthur W. Chickering and Zelda F. Gamson's article Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education.
Advancing the 7 Principles
Cost-effective and appropriate ways to use computers, video, and telecommunications technologies to advance the Seven Principles.
1. Implementing the Seven Principles: Technology as Lever2. Seven Principles Ideas
and Resources site.
3. Ideas based on the
7 Principles
4. The Seven Principles and GV-Vista
Online Course Review Forms
Download Course Review Form rubrics for evaluating instructional design
of online courses (used by permission, Univ. WestGa).
Word version (.doc)
* Course Introduction and Information
* Learning Materials/Content
* Assessment and Evaluation
* Instructional Design and Interaction
* Course Technology, Innovation and Accessibility
Exemplary Elearning Courses
Blackboard, the company who own Vista, host an annual Exemplary Course Program, in which courses developed in Vista are evaluated and nine of which are selected as "exemplary courses."
The Blackboard Exemplary Course Program site has links to the winning courses, and the rubric used to evaluate the courses that are submitted. Each of the
You can download the rubric, which has fours sections (Course Design, Interaction and Collaboration, Assessments, and Learner Support) as a Word doc from the site.
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