1. Designing & Teaching Effective Online Professional Development

2. Getting to Know Me Diana Benner Instructional Technology Facilitator San Antonio ISD Website: http://dbenner.org Email: dbenner1@saisd.net Image Source: www.celebratetheday.biz/ladybug.html

3. Getting To Know You Teachers? Course Developers? Trainers? K-12 Education? Higher Education? Business/Industry?

4. Where Can I Find All This? Diana Benner’s Website http://dbenner.org Moodle Mayhem Website http://bit.ly/techfiesta2010

5. What is your biggest hope for this session in regard to creating online professional development in your district?

6. Session Goals This session will guide participants in developing and teaching online professional development courses. The participant will be lead through the steps of course development, online teaching, and online assessment. The session will emphasize principals of course design which are outcome-based, performance-based, and collaborative.

7. Overview What is “Online Learning?” Online Professional Development Designing Online Professional Development Effective Online Facilitation Evaluating Online Courses

8. What is “Online Learning”? Learning that uses technology, typically by way of the Internet. In some cases, there is no live teacher present. Online learning typically describes a course where the student never uses a traditional classroom – all activities are done on a computer.

9. Why I Teach Online . . . Video Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8VfChM5EhA

12. Long-term programs embedded in the school year

13. Active learning activities such as demonstration, practice, and feedback

14. Collaborative study of student learning

16. District wide PD day, big-time presenter, paid big-time $, all teachers in attendance, one-shot type deal.

17. Send ‘em out!

18. Teacher is registered, teacher creates sub plans, sub is hired, teacher travels, kids give sub a hard time, teacher attends, teacher returns tired from travel has to come up with a consequence for the students’ bad behavior.

19. Send ‘em out and Bring ‘em back in!

20. A.K.A. Trainer of Trainer ModelAnd, once again the teacher is likely only able to implement 10% of new learning's in their classroom. Not only that, but they have decided to transfer schools next year! Are any of these scenarios in line with what we know works?

22. Easy to create

23. In line with what we know works

25. Sample Moodle Course Template

26. Components of an Online Course

28. Clearly written at the appropriate level and reflect desired outcomes

29. Written as measureable outcomes

31. Navigation is intuitive and content flows in a logical progression

32. Content is enhanced with visual and auditory elements

34. Includes guidance for learners to work with content in meaningful ways

35. Higher order thinking is expected of learners

36. Individualized instruction, remedial activities, or resources for advanced learning activities are providedWhat do we mean by learner engagement? Why is it important? How can we successfully guide learners through the content in meaningful ways? What are examples of higher order thinking? How can we support individualized instruction?

38. Technologies are used creatively in ways that transcend traditional, teacher-centered instruction

40. Asynchronous communication strategies promote critical reflection or other higher order thinking

42. Students are encouraged to initiate communication with the instructor

44. Expectations for quality of communications are clearly defined

45. A rubric used to evaluate participation is included

46. Instructor actively participates in communication activities

49. Rubrics or descriptive criteria for desired outcomes are provided

50. Multiple types of assessments are used

52. Online Course Evaluation National Standards for Quality Online Teaching Southern Regional Education Board

53. Online Course Evaluation Checklist

54. “Design your course around what you want your end result to be”

55. Sources Top Tips for Online Facilitation http://community.flexiblelearning.net.au/teachingtraininglearners/content/article_4729.htm Southern Regional Education Board http://home.sreb.org/publication/news1.aspx?Code=1134 SREB Online Resources http://www.srebonlineteachers.org/ SREB EvaluTech http://www.evalutech.sreb.org/criteria/online.asp iNACOL: International Association for K-12 Online Learning http://www.inacol.org/ Texas Virtual School Network http://www.txvsn.org/

56. Thank You! Diana Benner dbenner1@saisd.net