Online Course Development

Electronic education is an emerging technology, which more and more educators are dealing with on a daily basis. This course will focus on how to effectively plan and design distance education courses, determine acceptable standards for quality, explore useful web tools, and define technology requirements.

We will work together to investigate the following issues:

Who – Who are our students, what skills do they have/need? How do we get them, engage them, evaluate them, and keep them?

What – What do we need to do to our content to move it from the classroom to online and should we? What preparation do we need and what skills should we have? Quality vs. Quantity - does quality really matter? Is more always better? What are the best practices and how do we implement them?

When – When should we begin planning before putting a class online? When and how can we build a timeline schedule? Are there tools out there that will help us plan our development timeline?

Where – Where are the resources that we need to be successful in an online classroom? Where do we get training/support? What tools do we need to learn how to use? We will look at some of the tools that are now available (Camtasia, Live Classroom (Wimba), Tegrity, Bridge, Flash, etc)

Web – We will take a look at free web tools that can be utilized in the classroom. (Wikies, Blogs, Facebook, SecondLife, etc.)