Online teaching and learning resource guide

ONLINE TEACHING AND LEARNING RESOURCE GUIDE

Spring 2013

Go to https://www.vcu.edu/cte/resources/OTLRG/index.html

Getting Started. . .

Click on the index on the left to answer the following questions.

What are the attributes of online teaching?

Faculty Readiness to Teach Online

Facilitators in an online environment use a different and unique set of tools to perform effectively.

To reflect your readiness to teach onlineIs Online Teaching for Me? Take this quiz and tell me your results. http://canter.onlinelearning.net/InstructorCommunity/selfevaluation.html?s=227.q0619133g.0827012g51

Click on this link http://www.ion.uillinois.edu/resources/tutorials/pedagogy/instructorProfile.asp

Write a paragraph describing the characteristics of successful online facilitators.

Write a paragraph explaining what online students can expect from their teacher.

Student Readiness to Learn Online

Self Evaluation Quiz for Potential Online Students Illinois Online Network , 2000 , Find out if you have what it takes to be a successful online student. Share your results.

Discuss the qualities that the online student should possess.

Tips for Online Success - Learn some tips for how to get the most out of your online learning experience. What are the tips?

Blended Class

Define Blended or hybrid courses

Face to face to face courses

Online courses

Which type do students performed best in?

Write a paragraph describing the Hybrid Online Model.

Course Design

Explain the ADDIE Model

Select one of the rubrics to use in evaluating your site and explain it here.

Goals and Learning Objectives UW suggests that well-designed, easy-

to-follow lessons with interesting assignments are the key to a successful learning experience for the online student.

What should be included in lessons?

Concept Mapping

How does concept mapping help you design curriculum? Have you ever used concept mapping software?

Click on bubbl.us and practice mapping. Try to map the ADDIE model.

Instructional Design Standards Rubric to evaluate online course: http://www.csuchico.edu/roi/the_rubric.sh

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Explain the 6 parts

Customizing your Blackboard site You are completing your tutorial now.

Online Teaching Toolbox

Describe some tools in your toolbox

Asynchronous vs Synchronous Define each When would you use each Why would you use each How would you use each

Social Presence

How can you maintain social presence in your online course?

Preparing Students for Online Instruction

Students will experience problems in three areas. What are they?

Some students are seasoned online students and others are new to the environment. How could you orient them to the expectations?

How can you alleviate motivational issues?

Community

Community is the central feature of online courses.  The interaction and presence of the people in a community, coupled with processes that are reflective, constructivist, and social, and guided by articulated purpose, leads to the types of outcomes one desires in education – co-created knowledge, increased self-direction and transformed self-learning.

How can you build a community in your online course?

7 Principles for Effective Teaching Good Practice Encourages Student-Facult

y Contact Good Practice Encourages Cooperation a

mong Students Good Practice Encourages Active Learnin

g Good Practice Gives Prompt Feedback Good Practice Emphasizes Time on Task Good Practice Communicates High Expec

tations Good Practice Respects Diverse Talents a

nd Ways of Learning

Explain each of the principles and the technology tools you could use to implement them.

Managing Your Online Class

How can you set expectations?

Time Management

What are some time management tips for online teachers?

Developing a Routine and Schedule for the Course

How can you develop a routine and schedule for the course?

Online Ice Breakers

What is an ice breaker?

Why do you use them in an online class?

Review some ice breakers and choose one you would use in your class. http://twt.wikispaces.com/Ice-Breaker+Ideas

Which one would you use?

Information Overload

Technologies can help learners take control of and manage their own learning. Johnson and Liber (2008) noted that in using technology to shift the locus of control over learning to the learner, the ways in which learners exercise that control becomes an important educational issue.

Tools such as RSS feeds, wikis, social bookmarking, and blogs potentially set up an environment that allows learners to: set their own learning goals manage their learning; managing both content and process communicate with others in the process of learning

…and thereby achieve their learning goals. 

Creative Commons and Copyright Definition of copyright (n)

bing.com · Bing Dictionary cop·y·right

[ kóppee rt ]    creative artist's control of original work: the legal

right of creative artists or publishers to control the use and reproduction of their original works

protected by copyright: controlled or restricted by a copyright

get copyright of something: to secure the copyright on a creative work

Synonyms: patent, charter, right

Fair Use Law

To ensure a balance of the rights of copyright owners and the public interest, the law allows you to use copyrighted works without permission — regardless of medium — when evaluation of the circumstances suggests the use is fair. Factors to consider: Purpose and character: If your use is for teaching at a nonprofit

educational institution, this is a factor favoring fair use. The scale tips further in favor of fair use if access is restricted to your students.

Nature of copyrighted work: Is the work fact-based, published, or out-of-print? These factors weigh in favor of fair use.

Amount used: Using a small portion of a whole work would weigh toward fairness. But sometimes it may be fair to use an entire work (such as an image) if it is needed for your instructional purpose.

Market effect: A use is more likely to be fair if it does not harm the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work. But if it does, this could weigh more heavily against fair use than the other factors.

Creative Commons

What is creative commons?

Academic Integrity

Academic integrity essentially means "intellectual honesty": honesty in the use of information, in formulating arguments, and in other activities related to the pursuit of knowledge and understanding. It is a core principle that underpins how we live and learn in a community of inquiry.

Academic integrity can be maintained in different ways. Write a paragraph explaining how the different venues can support academic integrity:

Institution

Curriculum and Instruction

Faculty

Student

Assessments

What is SafeAssign or Turnitin?

Assistive Technologies

Go to http://assistivetechnologyforeducation.com/examples-of-assistive-technology/

Answer these questions: What is assistive technology? What law requires we provide assistive

technology for students? Give some examples of assistive

technologies.

FERPA

What is FERPA?

Give examples of how it is applied in an online class.

Technical Support

Students will need access to technical support.

http://rcu.blackboard.com Explain RCU’s technical support policy.

Managing Student Behavior

How can you manage disruptive students in an online class?

What is netiquette?

List some netiquette tips?

MSU Library Services for Distance Education

http://guides.library.msstate.edu/distancelearners

Click on the website above and listen to the short video.

Browse to see services that area available for online students.

If you need help, who do you contact?