Emory College Strategies for Online Teaching

Practitioners are regularly confronted with significant events which present them with learning opportunities, and yet many are unable to recognise the learning opportunity these significant events present. The ability to recognise a learning opportunity in the workplace and learn from it, is a higher-order cognitive skill which instructors should be seeking to develop in learners.

Learning Contract Study and Undergraduate Students Policy Empire State College is committed to the principles that: effective learning derives from purposes and needs important to the individual learning occurs in varied ways and places styles of learning may differ significantly from person to person and from one setting to another.

Online classes can be mechanical in nature and feel distant for students, which typically results in low student engagement and retention in the class, or it can be an environment that stimulates an interest in learning and promotes meaningful interactions.

Nurse Educ Pract. 2010 Nov;10(6):322-6. doi: 10.1016/j.nepr.2010.05.001. This article describes use of the heutagogical approach to nursing education - a practice based (and competency driven) program of study.

A series of 15 slides that concisely delineate assessment strategies for online courses.

M4 Slides for live session

Leah, Thank you for this - it was a lot to absorb in the hour-long session and this will make it easier.

This is a special report that features 12 articles from "Online Classroom" that offers some insight into how to assess online learning at the course, program, and institutional levels.

Andragogy--self-directed learning--is making a comeback, thanks to online education. But why did Malcolm Knowles, its author, and the approach based on educating adults lose interest among educators? This article delves into why it faded from favor and why it's on the rebound.

I won't say that this makes shifting conceptions of assessment in one's own courses less daunting, but I appreciate that it acknowledges the significant demand that changing assessment criteria can put on teachers. I have to admit that lot of the time, when I read about new assessment techniques, they sound interesting but exhausting to implement. We've seen a lot of stage-based models for education/assessment/collaboration/etc., but this one is especially clear and I like the thoroughness of the horror story example.

Dan I greatly appreciate your view point on this and can share another horror story with you that actually turned out to be a fairy-tale situation in the end! I'll make a note to discuss in tomorrow's live session. Cheers!

The more that I read about student centered learning and assessment, the more I realize that this is the direction I have been (slowly, glacially) moving in for years. Thanks for this!

Winona State University - Winona Minnesota has made it their mission to collect rubrics and make them available to all.

Thank you, Judy. I'm considering using rubrics for the first time and this is going to be a great resource.

A good springboard page for information on Sugata Mitra and his learning centered ideas for young students. More questions than answers in his work, particularly in how it applies to post secondary education.

One of the most important professional documents in my field is the Council of Writing Program Administrators (CWPA) Outcomes Statement. This statement, the result of years of collaboration and revision, defines general learning outcomes for first-year composition (FYC) courses. Most importantly for others in our EFOT class, the statement contains sections that explain how faculty in all programs and departments can build on the preparation students receive in FYC.

Lot's of interesting charts and worksheets on creating assessment tools. Worth taking a look.

Quick read, reputable source.

This report offers some observations on the use of multimedia resources in online courses. The focus is more on course development (both time investment and quality of materials produced) than on student experience or learning outcomes, but this can still be a valuable tool for instructors thinking about whether (and how) to use multimedia in their online course designs.

This page is actually a brief (but helpful and concise) overview of the use of rubrics. The main reason I am posting it here is because the entire site (Cornell University Center for Teaching Excellence) has a wealth of information on design, assessment, student engagement and using technology in the classroom.

In the time I do not have, I am keeping an eye (and only that) on a Coursera online course on how to create an online course. Nowhere as exhastive as this one, but it does provide me with hunting ground for sites to suggest in this forum. Here is one of two I will post on writing SLO's

These guidelines focus specifically on hybrid course design and instruction beginning with Fundamental Questions, moving through Best Practices and also covering pitfalls and practices to avoid.

Hey, Ginny, I liked this post. It is bulleted and right to the point. It also brings up something that concerns me for our students, specifically tidbits for what to do (and NOT do) when students are enrolled in multiple hybrid courses. Thanks

This is a very helpful resource, as it is presented for the novice learner and has lots of basic details that I'm trying to make sense of. Thanks for sharing.