Course Syllabus

Week 1: Meet Each Other

Read course policies, goals and objectives.
Learn how you'll get feedback.
Review technical skills needed to participate in the course.
Understand where and how to ask questions.
Learn who your classmates are; start interacting with them and getting to know them.

Week 2: Build Community

Complete your Blackboard Homepage and add information about yourself.
Learn about managing your time in the Discussion Board.
Continue to meet and get to know your colleagues.
Read and reflect on the importance of building community in a virtual classroom.
Participate in an online, asynchronous team activity.
Compose draft outline for your future online course.
Find your Private Group Space and post to it.

Week 3: Collaborative Learning

Participate in a small group activity.
Read and reflect on student collaboration in netcourses.
Use the Web to search for sites related to a specific subject.
Give constructive feedback on a colleague's work and gain an appreciation of peer collaboration online.

Week 4: Introduction to Moderating

Read about online moderating.
Get hands-on experience moderating a group discussion.
Collaborate with your peers in small groups.
Revise outline for your online course.
Get hands-on experience moderating a group discussion.

Week 5: Group Activities

Learn about the various ways to utilize student groups in a netcourse.
Get hands-on experience moderating a group discussion.
Design a group activity for your online course.
Give constructive feedback to a colleague on his/her course outline.
Get hands-on experience moderating a group discussion.

Week 6: Standards and Assessment

Consider issues related to evaluating students in a netcourse.
Discuss standards for online courses.
Review key pedagogical points from.
Get hands-on experience moderating a group discussion.
Synthesize your learning.

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Essential Elements: Prepare, Design, and Teach Your Online Course

"This book describes a process for designing online courses based on sophisticated learning experiences: guided inquiry, collaboration, community, and formative assessment. Its model will aid instructors in reconceptualizing their teaching to take full advantage of new interactive media."

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Last Updated: 03/07/2005