Designing and Delivering Effective Online Instruction

1. Designing Effective Online Instructional Activities

Session Outline:

1. Goals for Today and this Workshop Series
   1. Awareness and Understanding of Options
   2. Critical Reflection, Comparison and Analysis
   3. More tools and strategies for online and face to face instruction
2. Modeling: Using online polls to measure initial student schema
3. Foundational Pedagogic Philosophies:
   1. Multiple Intelligences (Howard Gardner)
   2. Encouraging Critical Thinking: Habits of Thought by Susan Black
   3. Pyramid Graph of Average Learning Rates
4. Guidelines for Effective Course Design
   1. QualityMatters Peer Assessment Rubric
5. Options for Instructional Activities
   1. Article readings
   2. Email
   3. Asynchronous discussion
   4. Sychronous chat
   5. Instant Messaging
6. Options for Assessment
   1. Discussion board Reflections & Analysis
   2. Submitted Article Reflections / Reviews
   3. Chapter / Topic Quiz
   4. Multiple Choice Test
   5. Short Answer Test
   6. Essay Test
   7. Student Essay or Research Paper
   8. Student Presentation - Breeze
   9. Partner or Group Projects
   10. Quiz Settings
7. Options for Group or Partner Projects
   1. Word document change tracking
   2. Communication / Meeting options: Email, Discussion boards, Chat, IM
   3. Read/Write Web or Web 2.0
   4. Wikis
      1. Link Examples:
         1. WikiPedia in English
         2. WikiPedia in Spanish
         3. Class project on Educational Law Technology Issues
         4. Collaborative Grant Writing (Ethiopia / USAID
   5. Blogs
   6. Social bookmarks / web bookmarks (http://del.icio.us/ - Wesley's social bookmarks)
8. Conclusions
   1. Learning Points for Today
   2. Online Session Evaluation