Creating a Sense of Time in Online Courses | Faculty Focus - 62 views
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While we all agree that the five-year-old unnarrated PowerPoint is a dangerous and ineffective piece of content in an online course, we would also all agree that we can’t redo each narrated piece of content each semester. How do we strike a balance between creating content that is fresh (more on that in a moment) and being able to reuse content that is valuable?
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Amy Cohen on 25 Apr 11Addressing issues in reusing online course content
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For teachers it makes them participate in the content, revisit the content they created in the past, and make it delivered in a “present” time for the students. For students it tells them that the teacher “was just here,” and that this stuff is happening now. It makes the content seem more relevant, and helps build a sense of community in the course.
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By creating content that has elements of real time associated with it, instructors can generate a sense of presence and freshness that are often missing in online courses.
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