Creating an Effective Online Syllabus - 6 views
This is an extremely helpful chapter. I intend to use it carefully next week while designing a draft syllabus. I tend to leave spaces open in my traditional syllabus for readings that may be added ...
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The Tone of the Syllabus - 1 views
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dseeman on 21 Jun 16This guide to syllabus construction from Vanderbilt reiterates many points from our readings and is not specifically concerned with online teaching. However, one thing I had not yet seen in other readings that concerns us here is the importance of choosing the right tone for introducing the class to students. I am not sure that the warm and friendly approach recommended here is always the right one but it makes sense for us given the difficulty we will have in any case making personal connections with students in the online environment.
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Yu Li on 23 Jun 16I think this is an important point. I had to revise some of my syllabi for exactly this reason. I guess when I first started teaching, I wanted to sound official and proper, but then a few years later discovered that I did not even recognize the person behind the formal, detached voice of the syllabi, and perhaps along the way, that a good instructor did not need to sound official or proper! Good reminder for me this time around, so thanks for posting this! -
dseeman on 29 Jun 16Thanks, Yu, I am just seeing this now. I think my draft syllabus was too formal and scary, but on the other hand I want to be super clear up front about expectations. I will need to tweak this,
Best Practices in Teaching Online: Creating an Online Syllabus - 11 views
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Graphics-based exampled of questions to answer in the syllabus. Ignoring the ugly UT brown color, this is a bulleted document that offers good points in simple fashion.
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This lays a lot of information out nicely and is especially helpful in thinking about what the students need to get oriented to the class. Hideous brown, though, it's true. -
I agree with all the above, including the poor color choice, however ... am I the only once feeling daunted and this point? I am beginning to wonder if it takes a certain "type" of faculty member to create an appropriate online course - someone who can think and manage in multiple platforms, constantly, both synchronously and asynchronously!! What about all the rest of our work engagements? how do they fit in?
learning goals - http://teaching.berkeley.edu/designing-your-course - 3 views
Judy, I think you are great company in this course! You have made feel less overwhelmed and given some great links and encouragement! Thanks, Elizabeth
Creating an Effective Online Syllabus - 4 views
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More help on creating your syllabus. I found the sections on "Managing Your Student's Expectations" and creating the geographical "Map" for your course (showing students where everything is on the Bb site for example) were very helpful and provided some interesting information. It's not just about the nuts and bolts of putting a syllabus together but how doing it well can save you time and headaches later!
Online by Design: The Essentials of Creating Information Literacy Courses: Yvonne Mery,... - 2 views
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This book has a chapter on creating a "student-centered syllabus" for an information literacy course, which could come in handy next week!
Interesting Rubric for Evaluating Syllabi, from Cornell U - 3 views
After this week's work on creating our first online course syllabus, it is interesting to compare our results with "standards" as set by other universities. http://www.cte.cornell.edu/documents/Syl...
Be Efficient, Not Busy: Time Management Strategies for Online Teaching - Faculty Focus ... - 3 views
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Online teaching redefines the faculty member's schedule. The feeling of being a 24/7 professor can lead to frustration. Managing one's time as an online teacher can be a challenge. As the popularity of online education continues to grow, teaching faculty need to develop effective time management behaviors to be efficient and not just busy.
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Thank you for sharing this! I find the tips all very useful. As one example, I am going to give the students a syllabus quiz, for sure. When I took the Zaption quiz Leah prepared during M1, I was a bit surprised by how much information my brain did not retain reading through the course guidelines. The quiz was obviously helpful.
Foreign Language Teaching Methods Online - 1 views
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The American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) and Weber State University (Ogden, UT) have developed an Online teaching methods course that reflects state-of-the-art research and practice in foreign language education. This course is offered through WSU Online. For information concerning registration or to see an outline and syllabus, go to http://www.weber.edu/ForeignLanguages/Student_Resources/Onlinemethods.html.
Faculty Focus: 11 Strategies for Managing Online Courses - 8 views
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Comprehensive. Several individual topics covering course management to syllabus design. I couldn't find a date of publication, however. The website facultyfocus.com has other good blog posts. -
Peggy, this was a great find. I thoroughly enjoyed reading these tidbits and tips. Thanks so much. The get acquainted idea and cultural diversity ideas were wonderful. -
This is a great resource... I really liked the different ideas about how to organize the course.
Best Practices for On-line Testing in Blackboard Learn - 2 views
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In designing my syllabus, I'm trying to decide whether to include testing like I do in the conventional version of the course, which has a midterm and a final. This resource from Iowa State is helping me think about whether a midterm will be useful in the same way for an online course as it is for a conventional one-and how I might format it if I decide to have one.
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Great resource, I could have used this many times. I will keep handy going forward. Thanks
VLE and PLE - 0 views
Terms!!! The whole "learning environment" revolution is moving so rapidly it is daunting! Once again, in following your threads posted below, i wandered off and felt the need for basic study of ter...
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