Designing and Delivering Effective Online Instruction

2. Instructor and Student Roles in Online Education

Session Outline:

1. Philosophical bases for education
   1. Paulo Freire's "banking model"
   2. Need for engagement and interaction / rejection of passive "banking"
   3. Vital role of student choice / interests / existing schema
   4. Self-Determination Theory: An Approach to Human Motivation and Personality
2. Expectations for Online Student Behavior
   1. Specifically address in course outline / syllabus
   2. Operationalize in module deadlines
   3. Identify Pre-Requsite Skills
3. Pedagogic goals
   1. Require regular summarization and synthesis
   2. Obtain concrete examples of student learning outcomes
4. Community Building Online
   1. Importance
   2. Need for student lounge
   3. Student homepages
   4. Student photos
5. Measuring Prior Student Knowledge
   1. Using pre-test quizzes
   2. Using Online polls
      1. Poll123.com
6. Online Discussion Tips
   1. Importance of student voices
   2. Requiring regular student postings
   3. Organizing student groups
   4. Rotating student discussion leaders
   5. Strategies for monitoring student discussion
   6. Assessment standards for discussion postings
   7. Challenge of getting students to respond based on text / studied materials rather than merely their own experiences
7. Benefits of using institutionally-provided CMS tools
   1. Monitoring student behavior (Example)
   2. More robust testing tools
   3. Electronic portfolios: Programmatic or degree outcomes assessment (www.taskstream.com)
8. Benefits of using publicly available CMS tools
   1. Commercial / free IM services
   2. Blogs / Wikis / Social Bookmarks
   3. Availability of tools outside the academic environment
   4. Publishing online to provide an authentic audience
   5. Students able to check each other's sources
9. Assessment Rubrics
   1. Teacher Vision: The Advantage of Rubrics
   2. Rubric design activity: RubiStar in English (http://rubistar.4teachers.org) and RubiStar en Espanol
10. Conclusions
    1. Learning Points for Today
    2. Online Session Evaluation