Presentation designed to introduce faculty to major issues of online course design

1. Mercer Summer Online
Online Course Design

2. Online Design Considerations
 From the Sage on the
Stage, To the Guide on the
Side
 Not exactly
 24/7 Connection
 Not exactly, either

3. Online Students Need:
 Headquarters
 Communication
 Interaction
 Support
 Engagement
 Encouragement
 Critical & creative thinking
 Response, response,
response

4. Course Design Commandments
 Humanize the experience
 Make textbooks valuable
 Meaningful technology
 Think multi-modal
 Focus on outcomes
 If you build it…
 Manage expectations
 Respond, respond, respond
 Track, track, track

5. Interaction is Key

6. Online Teaching Best Practices
 Community is crucial:
 Isolation = failure
 Instructor presence
 Guest lectures, video, campus resources
 Collaboration
 But not always group projects

7. Plan for Success
 Course Design Checklist
 Think in terms of experience
 Content
 Interaction
 Authentic Assessments
 Plan an icebreaker
 Participation tracking strategy
 What-ifs and Interventions

8. Your Homework
 Outline your course
 Content & multimedia
 Ted.com; YouTube; iTunesU; MIT Open CourseWare
 Podcast (Audacity); Video (Jing or Movie Maker)
 Assessments & interactions
 Design the experience
 How will you reach outcomes?
 Begin working in Blackboard
 Schedule course development meeting with me
(jones_kl@mercer.edu)

9. Resources
 Course Design Checklist
 List of highly recommended sites
 List of highly recommended tools
 Mercer faculty resources
 Course design article to read
 Blackboard tutorials
 Respondus handout