Designing and Delivering Effective Online Instruction

4. Developing Effective Online Instructional Content

Session Outline:

1. Pedagogic Overview
   1. Online banking educational model: Correspondence course
   2. Freire quotation
   3. Designing for student/student and student/instructor interaction and engagement
2. Managing Class Communications
   1. Standard email vs. CMS email
   2. IM benefits versus email
   3. Using thorough course outline / syllabus
   4. Using FAQ lists
3. Accessing and Using Blogs, Blogreaders, and RSS in Online Instruction
   1. Article: "Successful and Safe Educational Blogging"
   2. Cure for Information Overload?
   3. Free Bloglines in English
   4. Free Bloglines in Spanish
   5. Tutorial for using Bloglines (English or Spanish)
   6. Wesley's Bloglines recommendations
   7. Wesley's Blogs
4. Dealing with "lurkers"
5. Chunking and Attention Spans
   1. Chunking defined
   2. less can be more
   3. example of taping entire lecture: no one would listen to it all
   4. Duke university example of lecture taping
   5. Identify key elements for audio / video clips to include
6. Discussion Board Guidelines
   1. Exploratioin of different exaamples
   2. Use of Student leaders
   3. Synthesis of Options
7. Housekeeping tips
   1. make rubric guidelines strict
   2. providing submission deadlines
8. Addressing plagiarism
   1. Strategies to Address Digital Plagiarism
   2. Citing sources (Landmark's Citation Machine)
9. Conclusions
   1. Learning Points for Today
   2. Online Session Evaluation