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Online Faculty Development Process: a step by step process: readings and resources
Online Course Development: at-a-glance
You use these steps to guide your online course development.
PROCESS | ACTIVITIES |
1. Reflect:Process: Explore, Consider Possibilities, Question Assumptions, Observe Exemplar Online Courses, Air Concerns, Get Answers. |
-Create a Course Profile – example -Detail Course Information – example -Use the course review checklists to guide your course design and development. -View:
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2. Connect:Process: Draw Connections, Consider Differences, Reconceptualize Learning Activities for the Online Environment. |
-Create an orientation to your course in your course development tool.* -Use the checklist as a formative guide for steps 1 and 2 in the design of your online course. -View:What Works?: LD Basics for the Online Classroom presented by Alexandra M. Pickett (Duration: 00:59:24) -Read:
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3. Organize:Process: Chunk and Sequence Content, Draft Structure. |
-Set up Modules in your course development tool. -View:Keys to Success: Are You Ready to Develop an Online Course? presented by Alexandra Pickett (Duration: 00:35:00) -Read:
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4. Build: Process:Consider the options and limitations of the online teaching and learning environment, Move from theory to effective design and practices. |
-Climb the learning curve in your course development tool. -Design Learning Activities for each Module. -View: Teaching Presence and Class Community presented by Alexandra Pickett (Duration: 00:66:05) -Use the checklist as a formative guide for steps 3 and 4 in the design of your online course. -Create ways to Collect Descriptive Feedback from your students and Create a Culminating Activity -Read:
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5. Refine:Process: Review-revise-refine, critique, Take the Student Perspective. |
-Review and walk through your course and make revisions. -Use the Course Review Rubric to conduct a formal course review of your course. -Read: |
6. Implement:Process: Prepare to Pilot your Course. |
-Learn and practice course management skills. -Read:
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7. Evolve:Process: Commit to Iteration. |
–Review, evaluate, and revise your course. -Take the teaching presence online self-assessment survey and then revise your course accordingly . -View:
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*course development tool: e.g., Moodle, BlackBoard, WebCT, ANGEL, etc.
Culminating Resources:
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