EDUC 761 Creating Collaborative Communities in E-Learning
Instructors: Kay Lehmann and Lisa Chamberlin
Textbook: Making the Move to eLearning: Putting Your Course Online
Textbook: Making the Move to eLearning: Putting Your Course Online
Description
Concepts, methods and research for creating and facilitating a collaborative online community of practice.
This course is about facilitating and building an e-learning community and is designed for K-12 educators, technical college and community college instructors, university instructors, curriculum consultants, and corporate trainers who want to become highly qualified in facilitating online learning in hybrid or fully online courses.
Improve your time/workload management techniques including organization of email, class environment and time-saving strategies for working with difficult students in the online classroom. Course activities include hands-on practice using asynchronous communication technologies. You will actively facilitate and explore questioning skills, conflict resolution, netiquette, and collaborative learning through problem solving scenarios, simulations, and online discussions.
You will investigate time management strategies and pitfalls to avoid when designing and facilitating online class activities and explore various assessment tools to analyze and evaluate student participation in online discussions.
The class is highly interactive with a significant discussion component. All discussion postings, projects and assignments will be submitted via the course discussion board and dropbox. Activities are conducted according to a schedule with specific due dates each week.
This course is about facilitating and building an e-learning community and is designed for K-12 educators, technical college and community college instructors, university instructors, curriculum consultants, and corporate trainers who want to become highly qualified in facilitating online learning in hybrid or fully online courses.
Improve your time/workload management techniques including organization of email, class environment and time-saving strategies for working with difficult students in the online classroom. Course activities include hands-on practice using asynchronous communication technologies. You will actively facilitate and explore questioning skills, conflict resolution, netiquette, and collaborative learning through problem solving scenarios, simulations, and online discussions.
You will investigate time management strategies and pitfalls to avoid when designing and facilitating online class activities and explore various assessment tools to analyze and evaluate student participation in online discussions.
The class is highly interactive with a significant discussion component. All discussion postings, projects and assignments will be submitted via the course discussion board and dropbox. Activities are conducted according to a schedule with specific due dates each week.
Learning outcomes
- Develop a personal philosophy that reflects learning theory and guides online instruction that creates an environment for reflection, critical thinking, and collaboration.
- Analyze the role of the online facilitator and develop strategies to implement, encourage and manage interaction in the online classroom.
- Demonstrate appropriate planning considerations, guidelines and procedures to establish a productive, engaging e-learning environment.
- Frame critical thinking questions and design discussion prompts that lead to effective learning in the online classroom.
- Apply understanding of learner differences when facilitating an online community of practice.
- Evaluate application ideas for online discussions using recognized criteria and professional references and apply current research about successful teaching strategies to guide students before, during and after case scenarios, brainstorming, role playing, and reaction postings.
- Develop a facilitation eportfolio of useful tools, tips, and facilitation techniques as well as the beginnings of 70-30 course preparation developed during the course.