Putting It All Together
Now, all these tips for building your syllabus assume that you have already organized your course materials in a way that will make sense on the Web. A word of caution here:
A COURSE DELIVERED PARTLY OR ENTIRELY ONLINE IS NOT THE SAME AS A TRADITIONAL COURSE.
Web delivery is unique. The timing is different. The way you hand out materials is different. The communication Read the rest of this entry »
Special Considerations for Online Courses
Mastery of the design process starts with understanding your “units of learning.”
A Unit of Learning (click to enlarge)
In the previous post (Get Organized!) I mentioned the ADDIE model for instructional design. For many, ADDIE is overly simplistic and doesn’t provide guidance for every part of a teaching/learning experience in the online learning environment. But that’s ok, because its just a guide. It’s up to each of us to make sure that we provide the structure, content, and instructor time with learners that is needed to meet the learning objectives of the curriculum, the course and the individual learner. No model will account the complexities of every situation we might encounter.
But for the purposes of talking about how to build your course online, which is what this blog and accompanying website are all about a simple model to help us organize our efforts is all that’s really needed.
That’s why I came up with the 4 Ds. First, I needed to organize my own thinking and Read the rest of this entry »
This will be a short post. Taking up where we left off in the last post (”5. What have I got inside, in the way of physical energy, ideas, knowledge, skills that I could use to generate some income?”)…The first thing to do is start thinking about what you know in an organized way. There is a kind of thinking process you go through, no matter what you’re trying to do, the starts with opening up to possibility. Then comes paying attention to everything around you that is even remotely related to what you’re thinking about. Then comes narrowing down your thinking to something you can focus on and try to accomplish.
I’m a big fan of mnemonics and tricks for remembering, so, after studying what professionals call the “Design Cycle” process I came up with what I call the 4 Ds: Discovery, Design, Development, Delivery.
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