WebCT Homepage 1. Teaching online vs teaching face to face: Teaching effectively online requires an understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of the web as a teaching and learning environment. An on-line course is not simply a traditional course translated into Hyper-Text Markup Language. You need to re-think the content, dialogue, and requirements of your course to respond to both the opportunities and limitations of the Internet.    The Chronicle of Higher Education: Young Rethinking the Role of the Professor in an Age of High-Tech Tools  17 ELEMENTS OF GOOD ONLINE COURSES By Doug Madden, Honolulu Community College  IntroToMultimedia Self-paced course on using multimedia from Harcourt College Publishers 2. Advantages and difficulties associated with online teaching and learning Go to WebCT for online discussion 3. Developing Your Course Developing Your Own On-Line Course Julie Van Camp, Associate Professor of Philosophy, California State University, Long Beach Steps to creating an online course Starting Steps to Design Online Courses Materials DLRN -- For Educators How to design an online course         A. Instructional Design Issues Instructional Design for Online Courses Funaro Pedagogical Roles and Implementation Guidelines for Online Communication Tools What do you hope students will learn in this course? What do you want your students to be able to do as a result of this course? How will your assignments and plan for assessment tie in with our learning objectives? How will your students know if they've achieved the learning objectives for this course?        B. Course Organization  ORGANIZING AN ONLINE COURSE        C. Selection of Tools  UMUC-Verizon Virtual Resource Site -- Module 1: Technologies  WebCTNotes webct tools and descriptions  WebCT.com  Webct tools and the good teachng principles they support          D. Visual Literacy  A VISUAL LITERACY EXERCISE The Use and Capture of Images for Computer-Based Learning II - Section 1 CMC Magazine: The Last Link: A Plea for Visual Literacy.         E. Graphic Resources on the Web Realm Graphics - A very large selection of bullets, backgrounds, icons and lines. Randy's Icon Bazaar A huge collection of bullets, bars, buttons, backgrounds, etc. The Clipart directory A long list with dozens of Clipart Sites. Free Clip Art, Stock Photos, and Images! Clip Art Universe AltaVista Image Search         F. WebSite Design Educational Web Design Web Design for Instruction - Research Based Guidelines All Web Sites are Not Created Equal                          4. Web Site Design Activity: Activity: Design Issues: Evaluate Design of Review the sites below and take notes on the following:   Note your reactions to: use of color lay out and navigation use of fonts use of images. What about the page makes you feel? What makes you think? Where is your eye drawn, and why? Creating Killer Web Sites Los Angeles County Arts Leslie Online Courses Web-Based-Courses Laurie Gelles, UVM Student counter space Education to Go Rural Vermont   5. How to Facilitate Online Discussion Organizing for Interaction FACILITATING AN ONLINE DISCUSSION from learner.org Facilitating OnLine Discussions from Plymouth State College 6. Designing Web Sites Accessible to All Resources for designing accessible web pages Accessible Web Page Design  7. Intellectual Property Rights and Copyright Intellectual property at UVM The University of Vermont:  THE UT SYSTEM CRASH COURSE IN COPYRIGHT  CAUSE / EFFECT Burk  CopyOwn - A Resource On Copyright Ownership For The Higher Education Community  Tutorial included 8. Useful Websites Online Learning @ UVM WebCT Homepage Taking an online course Last revised April 2002

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1. Teaching online vs teaching face to face:
Teaching effectively online requires an understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of the web as a teaching and
learning environment. An on-line course is not simply a traditional course translated into Hyper-Text Markup Language. You need to re-think the content, dialogue, and requirements of your course to respond to both the opportunities and limitations of the Internet.
 

 The Chronicle of Higher Education: Young Rethinking the Role of the Professor in an Age of High-Tech Tools

 17 ELEMENTS OF GOOD ONLINE COURSES By Doug Madden, Honolulu Community College

 IntroToMultimedia Self-paced course on using multimedia from Harcourt College Publishers

2. Advantages and difficulties associated with online teaching and learning
Go to WebCT for online discussion

3. Developing Your Course

• Developing Your Own On-Line Course Julie Van Camp, Associate Professor of Philosophy, California State University, Long Beach
• Steps to creating an online course Starting Steps to Design Online Courses Materials
• DLRN -- For Educators How to design an online course


        A. Instructional Design Issues

Instructional Design for Online Courses

Funaro Pedagogical Roles and Implementation Guidelines for Online Communication Tools

What do you hope students will learn in this course?

What do you want your students to be able to do as a result of this course?

How will your assignments and plan for assessment tie in with our learning objectives?

How will your students know if they've achieved the learning objectives for this course?

       B. Course Organization

 ORGANIZING AN ONLINE COURSE


       C. Selection of Tools

 UMUC-Verizon Virtual Resource Site -- Module 1: Technologies

 WebCTNotes webct tools and descriptions

 WebCT.com

 Webct tools and the good teachng principles they support


 

       D. Visual Literacy

 A VISUAL LITERACY EXERCISE

The Use and Capture of Images for Computer-Based Learning II - Section 1

CMC Magazine: The Last Link: A Plea for Visual Literacy.


        E. Graphic Resources on the Web

• Realm Graphics - A very large selection of bullets, backgrounds, icons and lines.
• Randy's Icon Bazaar A huge collection of bullets, bars, buttons, backgrounds, etc.
• The Clipart directory A long list with dozens of Clipart Sites.
• Free Clip Art, Stock Photos, and Images!
• Clip Art Universe
• AltaVista Image Search
        F. WebSite Design
• Educational Web Design
• Web Design for Instruction - Research Based Guidelines
• All Web Sites are Not Created Equal

                        
4. Web Site Design Activity:

Activity: Design Issues: Evaluate Design of
Review the sites below and take notes on the following:
 

• Note your reactions to:
• use of color
• lay out and navigation
• use of fonts
• use of images.
• What about the page makes you feel?
• What makes you think?
• Where is your eye drawn, and why?

 

5. How to Facilitate Online Discussion

Organizing for Interaction

FACILITATING AN ONLINE DISCUSSION from learner.org

Facilitating OnLine Discussions from Plymouth State College


6. Designing Web Sites Accessible to All

Resources for designing accessible web pages

Accessible Web Page Design



 7. Intellectual Property Rights and Copyright

• Intellectual property at UVM The University of Vermont:
•  THE UT SYSTEM CRASH COURSE IN COPYRIGHT
•  CAUSE / EFFECT Burk
•  CopyOwn - A Resource On Copyright Ownership For The Higher Education Community  Tutorial included

8. Useful Websites
• Online Learning @ UVM
• WebCT Homepage
• Taking an online course


Last revised April 2002