The second session for the Fall ’14 Online Course Development Workshop Series covered online course activities. The workshop focuses on structuring activities to engage students with the content, with their classmates, and with the instructor in an online course. Discussions included best practices, types of online activities, and how to adapt face-to-face activities to an …
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Oct 15
Developing Successful and Engaging Online Courses
The second session for the Fall ’14 Online Course Development Workshop Series covered how to develop an engaging online course. This workshop focuses on building course content suitable for online course delivery. Emphasis is placed on chunking and organizing content and the alignment of learning objectives with activities and assessments; and creating student to student; …
Nov 22
Hybrid Series: Rethinking Assessment Strategies for Hybrid Courses
Hybrid Series: Rethinking Assessment Strategies for Hybrid Courses November 22, 2013 Event Description This workshop focuses on assessment strategies for both online and face-to-face portions of a hybrid course. Authentic assessment strategies and low stakes quizzes will be discussed as well as best practices for implementing assessments. Self and peer assessment, the assignment tool and …
Nov 19
Hybrid Series: Activities for Hybrid Courses
Hybrid Series: Activities for Hybrid Courses November 15, 2013 This workshop focuses on different activities to support online and face-to-face parts of a hybrid course. Implementation of these activities will be discussed along with best practices. Ideas for activities based on achieving the learning objectives will be shared. This workshop is facilitated by Mary Zedeck. …
Nov 08
Hybrid Series: Using Open Educational Resources (OER) to Enhance Content
Hybrid Series: Using Open Educational Resources (OER) to Enhance Content November 8, 2013 Open Educational Resources (OER) reside in the public domain and are free to use for teaching and learning. Within these repositories are a variety of multimedia, learning objects, tutorials etc. that offer quick ways to enhance any topic. Websites such as National …
Nov 01
Hybrid Series: Communication and Feedback
Hybrid Series: Communication and Feedback November 1, 2013 Communication and timely feedback is an essential part of successful courses. This workshop focuses on using different methods for communicating and providing feedback. Although there are many tools to provide feedback, the following tools will be demonstrated: Announcements, Bb Voice, Track changes/assignment tool, and Voki. The workshop …
Oct 25
Hybrid Series: Organizing Content through Chunking
(Cancelled) Hybrid Series: Organizing Content through Chunking October 25, 2013 Organizing course content into manageable chunks helps faculty to develop their hybrid courses. In addition to helping students with attaining course goals, chunking aids in student and faculty satisfaction. This workshop will demonstrate the importance of content chunking. The workshop is facilitated by Renee M. …
Oct 24
Hybrid Series: Hybrid Course Elements and Design
Hybrid Series: Hybrid Course Elements and Design October 18, 2013 Planning course interactions and organizing content are two elements of developing a successful hybrid course. This session covers benefits and challenges of developing a hybrid course including determining how often to meet your class face-to-face based on learning outcomes and activities (ie, 3 days a …
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