online course design
Recent Seminars
Data Driven Decision Making for Online Instructional Design
With constrained budgets and increasing calls for evidence of learning effectiveness, online programs are being forced to continually evaluate programs with an eye toward increased effectiveness. This seminar will introduce participants to strategies for leveraging analytics to inform the instructional design processes and improvements.
video Online Seminar • Recorded on Tuesday, March 15th, 2011
How Much Multimedia Should You Add to PowerPoint Slides When Teaching Online?
PowerPoint is versatile in allowing us to add multimedia (graphics, sound, audio, video, text, animation, etc.) to our presentations for keeping online students’ rapt attention. But how much multimedia should you add? In answering this question, I find that taking into consideration students’ learning styles and cultural/international backgrounds can help to lessen the risk of using too much or too little multimedia in your online PPTs.
Providing Multiple Paths for Learning
Students come to an online course with different interests, prior knowledge, and preferred learning styles. This is something that Stephen Holland, chair of the English department at Muscatine Community College and online learning and training associate at the Eastern Iowa Community College District, takes into account whenever he creates or seeks to improve an online course.
Ten Factors that Determine Online Student Success at Community Colleges
Community colleges are especially prone to problems with student completion of courses and retention of the students to graduation. To assist these institutions in addressing problems of persistence among online students, Robert Knipe, dean of learning technologies at Genesee Community College, undertook a study with area colleagues to learn what factors are most critical in predicting success, with an eye to understanding which factors are in the college’s control and which may predict a student at risk for failing to persist.
Teaching Students with Learning Disabilities in the Online Classroom
Students with learning disabilities tend to learn better in the online environment, but institutions are not doing enough to prepare instructors to meet their needs, says Mary Beth Crum, an online instructor at the University of Wisconsin—Stout and Walden University.
Teaching Standardized Courses: Advantages and Disadvantages
Online courses are increasingly being developed by a team of instructional designers, curriculum specialists, and instructional technologists. In the majority of cases, these courses feature standardized content such as a common syllabus and assignments, and reusable course modules and learning objects.
Teach More Effectively with Customizing Learning Experiences
Customized course content can actually reduce faculty workload, while creating a rich learning experience and better learning outcomes for students. This seminar presents a model for personalizing online coursework without overtaxing faculty.
audio Online Seminar • Recorded on Wednesday, July 14th, 2010
Designing Online Courses to Meet the Needs of a Diverse Student Population
When designing an online course we tend to create the course based on our needs and time restraints, and often do not think of our students and the reasons why they are taking an online course. To effectively meet our students diverse needs, we must step back and ask ourselves:
Building a Connection with Online Students Right from the Start
When teaching and designing courses, I find that it’s easy to slip into autopilot and use the same tools and strategies over and over. Autopilot can be comfortable and easy, but I know I don’t do my best work in that state. So I try to look at my courses and materials with fresh eyes as often as I can. Often, I’ll ask another faculty member or designer to look at what I’m designing with a critical eye, and I return the favor for their courses.
Teaching an Online Course Developed by Others
Online courses are increasingly designed by a team of educators, with the express purpose of creating standardized course content for use over several different units. Instructors who have little or no role in the development process are commonly asked to teach such courses. Overcoming the challenges and capitalizing on the opportunities of standardized course content is critical for every member of the online course team.
