1. Online Education • Teaching Online: A Practical Guide • Susan Ko • Steve Rossen

2. The Range of Online Experience A course with some on-line elements A Hybrid Course A course taught entirely on line

3. Basic Elements • Instructional Design (knowledge & experience, teaching methods) • Structural Design (art & psychology) • Reliability & Interactivity (computer skills)

4. Difference? F2F & Online • Nonverbal Communication does not exist. (smile, head shake) • You can’t tell if they’re learning • You cannot estimate the scope of the content like a book. (how big is each chapter) • You cannot estimate the quality of the course (publisher, the cover quality)

5. Big Question Does the online format provide the same quality of education offered by a traditional campus?

6. NSF • Cites hundreds of research reports, papers, and summaries dating back to 1928 that found no significant difference between distance learning and in-class learning.

7. Why NSF?Apples & Oranges? • Difference in course quality • Difference in type of students • Difference in type of course • Difference in teaching methods • Difference in assessment methods

8. Course Design and Development

9. 1- Analysis Exploring Your Institution’s Resources Ask your students (skills, preferences, tools)

10. Exploring YourInstitution’s Resources • What’s already in place? (ask people who have done it) • What kind of software, hardware, and operating system is available at your institution to run online courses? • What kind of network has your institution set up and what is the profile of student users? • What kind of computer support does your institution Provide? • What kind of instructor training and support is available?

11. You need some computer skills • Basic computer terminology • Basic troubleshooting • Email & attachments • Communication technology & tools (social networks, wikis, blogs, microblogs, RSS) • Search tools (data bases) • Web page development • Advancedmultimedia development and interactivity?

12. 2- Design • Leaving ADDIE for SAM • Extensively discussed in ETEC 570.

13. 3- Course development Extensively discussed in ETEC 570 However, you need to know a few things to be able to evaluate online courses

14. Don’t Copy- Create new • Putting your course online doesn’t mean copying your syllabus. • You have to change your instructional strategies based on the advantages and limitations of the new technologies

15. Speeches • Don’t convert your lectures (speeches) into text word for word. • Audio recording is better video recording even better • Need to revise anyway

16. Writing for the web • Strive for a style midway between casual speech and formal writing. • Chunk your writing into short paragraphs with space between them. • http://www.thinkscience.co.jp/toolshed/lang/en/learn-more-casual-vs-formal-styles-of-english-differences-in-vocabulary-part-1/ • http://education.blurtit.com/2959066/what-is-casual-writing

17. Writing for the web • Use headings, italics, colors, to allow the eye to quickly take in the gist of the presentation. • Example, http://www.socialresearchmethods.net/kb/index.php

18. Powerpoints Your old Powerpoint presentations is a collection of meaningless short sentences.

19. 0nline PowerPoint • Complete your sentences and add lots of visuals • Don’t use too many words per slide • Don’t use just the keywords

20. 0nline PowerPoint • Divide up your slides so that each segment is no more than 60 slides • No more than ten minutes

21. Narrated (audio) slides Avoid simply narrating bulleted text

22. Narrated (audio) slides • Make sure each narration extends over a series of slides rather than stopping for five or more minutes on one slide • What is wrong with this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGZLl9ToBkU • Use a casual narration with lots of color in the voice. • What is wrong with this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3c9FASbdas8

23. Videotaped lectures

24. Videotaped lectures • Students who don’t have high-speed access will find it frustrating. • Try streaming video rather than downloadables. (FLV) • Try web casting if appropriate

25. Special students • Prepare a text transcript , closed caption, or summary of audio or video presentation for the benefit of those who have hearing disabilities

26. Linked Videotaped lectures • Instruct them to save rather than open

27. Simulations & Games • Proved to be the most effective tool Will be extensively covered in ETEC570

28. Office Hours You don’t have to sit in your office waiting for students to show up for conferences. You can hold “office hours” on weekends or at night after dinner.

29. 24/7 online school If school’s open twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, when is school out? You should announce days / hours off

30. Missing link? • Programmers or network specialists who don’t know anything about application programs. • Lab administrators who don’t know what a web site can provide. • A person who knows your needs and the computer programs?

31. Course Design and Development