1. Teaching Online: A Practical Guide
Online Education
Teaching Online: A Practical Guide
Susan Ko
Steve Rossen

2. The Range of Online Experience
A course with some on-line elements
A Hybrid Course
A course taught entirely on line

3. What is missing?
Why so many people are not happy with online courses and still take them?

4. Basic Elements
Instructional Design (knowledge & experience, teaching strategies)
Structural Design / Interface (art & psychology)
Reliability & Interactivity (computer skills)
It has to be a teamwork

5. Big Question
Does the online format provide the same quality of education offered by a traditional campus?

6. NSF
Cites hundreds of research reports, papers, and summaries dating back to 1928 that found no significant difference between distance learning and in-class learning.

7. Why NSF? Apples & Oranges?
Difference in course quality
Difference in type of students
Difference in type of course
Difference in teaching methods
Difference in assessment methods

8. Course Design and Development

9. 1- Analysis Exploring Your Institution’s resources
Ask your students (skills, preferences, tools)

10. What skills do you need ?
What skills do you need to teach online?

11. You need some computer skills
Basic computer terminology
Basic troubleshooting
& attachments
Communication technology & tools (social networks, wikis, blogs, microblogs, RSS)
Search tools (data bases)
Web page development
Advanced multimedia development and interactivity ?

12. 2- Design
Leaving ADDIE for SAM
Extensively discussed in ETEC 570.

13. Extensively discussed in ETEC 570
3- Course development
Extensively discussed in ETEC 570
However, you need to know a few things to be able to evaluate online courses

14. Don’t Copy- Create new
Putting your course online doesn’t mean copying your syllabus.
You have to change your instructional strategies based on the advantages and limitations of the new technologies

15. Speeches
Don’t convert your lectures (speeches) into text word for word.
Audio recording is better video recording even better
Need to revise anyway

16. Writing for the web
Strive for a style midway between casual speech and formal writing.
Chunk your writing into short paragraphs with space between them.

17. Writing for the web
Use headings, italics, colors, to allow the eye to quickly take in the gist of the presentation.
Good Example,

18. 0nline PowerPoint Complete your sentences and add lots of visuals
Don’t use too many words per slide
Don’t use just the keywords

19. 0nline PowerPoint
Divide up your slides so that each segment is no more than 60 slides
No more than ten minutes

20. Narrated (audio) slides
Avoid simply narrating bulleted text

21. Narrated (audio) slides
Make sure each narration extends over a series of slides (like a video) rather than stopping for five or more minutes on one slide
What is wrong with this?
Use a casual narration with lots of color in the voice.

22. Videotaped lectures

23. Special students
Prepare a text transcript , closed caption, or summary of audio or video presentation for the benefit of those who have hearing disabilities

24. Simulations & Games Proved to be the most effective tool
Will be extensively covered in ETEC570

25. Office Hours
You don’t have to sit in your office waiting for students to show up for conferences. You can hold “office hours” on weekends or at night after dinner.

26. 24/7 online school?
You should announce days / hours off