Question: If all of our topics are going to have video resources we should research videos. While I am sure this might be good, there might also be better out there in terms of videos.
This special report features eight articles pulled from the pages of Distance Education Report, and
covers a variety of different aspects of online course design. Some of the articles you will find in
the report include:
* The Collaborative Approach to Developing Online Courses
* Building Course Quality Systematically
* Who Ya Gonna Call When a Course Needs Help?
* Developing a Course Maintenance Process for Your Online Courses
* What Learning Object Repositories Mean for Your Program
Series of articles on Distance Ed. They are all good, but they seem more geared towards administrators. Most do not talk about specific design aspects that faculty should be aware of when designing and implementing courses.
"The increase in the adop-tion of Internet-related technologies for online learning has been accompanied by a parallel, but separate, demand for greater accountability in higher education. Measures of student engagement offer valuable indicators of educational quality, yet have been limited to use in on-campus settings. The authors used key engagement dimensions that the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) defined to measure student engagement in online courses from 3 universities. Online students were modestly engaged in selected NSSE dimensions and had a pattern of engagement that differed from on-campus students."
"This guide aims to orient Vanderbilt Coursera faculty in the new online-learning landscape by providing an overview of some "common practices" among recent Coursera
courses as of this writing (September 2012)." (Note: Although this is written with Coursera in mind it is an excellent resource for faculty to consider when designing their online course.
"A roadmap for instructors during the course design process or as a "self-evaluation" tool to assist instructors in revision of an existing online course using the rubric and suggested examples. "
Nice checklist for what should go into designing a course. Would be better if it had links to describe or go into detail on what each of those items are.