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Course Syllabus

Week 1: Meet Each Other

  • Read course policies, goals and objectives.
  • Learn how you'll get feedback.
  • Review technical skills needed to participate in the course.
  • Understand where and how to ask questions.
  • Learn who your classmates are; start interacting with them and getting to know them.

Week 2: Build Community

  • Complete your Blackboard Homepage and add information about yourself.
  • Learn about managing your time in the Discussion Board.
  • Continue to meet and get to know your colleagues.
  • Read and reflect on the importance of building community in a virtual classroom.
  • Participate in an online, asynchronous team activity.
  • Compose draft outline for your future online course.
  • Find your Private Group Space and post to it.

Week 3: Collaborative Learning

  • Participate in a small group activity.
  • Read and reflect on student collaboration in netcourses.
  • Use the Web to search for sites related to a specific subject.
  • Give constructive feedback on a colleague's work and gain an appreciation of peer collaboration online.

Week 4: Introduction to Moderating

  • Read about online moderating.
  • Get hands-on experience moderating a group discussion.
  • Collaborate with your peers in small groups.
  • Revise outline for your online course.
  • Get hands-on experience moderating a group discussion.

Week 5: Group Activities

  • Learn about the various ways to utilize student groups in a netcourse.
  • Get hands-on experience moderating a group discussion.
  • Design a group activity for your online course.
  • Give constructive feedback to a colleague on his/her course outline.
  • Get hands-on experience moderating a group discussion.

Week 6: Standards and Assessment

  • Consider issues related to evaluating students in a netcourse.
  • Discuss standards for online courses.
  • Review key pedagogical points from.
  • Get hands-on experience moderating a group discussion.
  • Synthesize your learning.


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