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Designing and Teaching Online Courses

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Designing and Teaching Online Courses teaches the pedagogy, methodology, and facilitation methods necessary for effective instruction in the online environment. Designing and Teaching Online Courses is a scheduled asynchronous six-week netcourse offered over the Internet in Blackboard 5.5.

Who should take this course?

Pre-service teachers
Secondary teachers
Higher education teaching professionals
Those who are already teaching online and want to learn more

What you'll learn

About the philosophy and pedagogy of netcourses
How to foster community-building and collaborative learning in an online course
How to facilitate an online dialogue to deepen the learning
How to use the Web as a resource for your online course
How to evaluate students' progress in an online course

You'll experience being a student in an online environment, which will help you understand what your own students are going through when you become a 'Net teacher.

You'll create a course syllabus for your future online course (or transform your current face-to-face syllabus to work in the online environment), practice moderation techniques by leading group discussions, create online teacher resources, and participate in collaborative activities. Experienced facilitators will monitor your progress, grade assignments, and act as models and mentors.

Participation requirements

Post in online discussions three days per week
Participate in collaborative activities
Complete assignments, read chapters from provided books
Engage in 5-10 hours online and offline activities per week

Course materials

All materials will be provided, including:

Building Learning Communities in Cyberspace: Effective Strategies for the Online Classroom
(1999, Josey-Bass Publishers, San Francisco. Rena M. Palloff and Keith Pratt.)
Facilitating Online Learning: Effective Strategies for Moderators
(2000, Atwood Publishing, Madison, WI. George Collison, Bonnie Elbaum, Sarah Haavind, Robert Tinker.)

Instructors

Cynthia McIntyre holds a master's degree from Harvard University Divinity School, where she specialized in education. An online course designer and instructor, she has researched, designed and facilitated professional development courses for the Virtual High School and the Concord Consortium for over four years. She has written articles on online pedagogy and edited a book, InquiryWorks: Real Teachers, Real Stories, which highlights secondary teachers bringing inquiry into their classrooms. With Alese Smith and Bonnie Elbaum, she has co-authored a book on online education, entitled Essential Elements: Prepare, Design, and Teach Your Online Course (Atwood Publishing, forthcoming).

cynthia@concord.org phone: 978-371-3496

Alese Smith has gained extensive experience the past four years in designing professional development programs for the Virtual High School and for the Concord Consortium. She has also presented at national conferences and conducted hands-on tutorials on effective online course design and delivery. She's consulted with the US Navy and Boston University Medical School on the skills and philosophies for successfully transforming face-to-face courses to the online venue. With Cynthia, she's writing a book on that conversion process for publication later this year.

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