ECI 647 - Online Learning: Week of January 26

Tasks

• Reading Quiz
• Content
• Creating a Lesson
• Assignments

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Reading Quiz

Postponed to next week

 

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Content

The first topic we want to tackle in this class involves the presentation of content. Part of what you should have experienced from last week's online learning assignment is how they presented content and whether it was effective or not. If you have experience as Web authors, you've had experience with this problem.

So my question for the week is this - "What makes content more effective when presented on the Web?" While your reading will get you started on this quest, I encourage you to bring in other resources as well.

 

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Creating a Lesson

Creating mediated lessons is a surprisingly hard thing to do. I'd like you all to prove this to yourselves by creating one this week. Based upon the forms filled out, most of you are OK with creating a presentation using PowerPoint or it's ilk. Therefore, I'd like you to create a "lecture" this week based upon the readings. The specifications are as follows:

• Select 4-6 key points from the readings
• Organize them into a sequential lesson plan
• Create a mediated lesson that will teach entirely on its own. In other words, you are not physically present to lecture, interact, clarify or anything else.
• Your audience is a group of college administrators (in other words, people with no knowledge on the subject of online learning)
• Use no more than 10 slides

Now, don't get carried away with this. Use a simple template, a few bullet points, and perhaps some clip art. If you are unable to access a program like PowerPoint, type out a "storyboard" in Word (or .rtf format) that clearly shows what you would do.

PowerPoint is available at all of the ODU satellite campuses.

A list of Tips sites will be added there

 

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Assignments due February 2

Exercises

• Complete lesson
• Share in forum
• View and comment on at least 2 others

Readings and Activities

• Designing Instruction for the Web - Overview and Unit 1 sections 1-3 as linked below
  • Overview - all sections
  • Unit 1 - all sections and activities
  • Unit 2 - all sections and activities
  • Unit 3 - all sections and activites
• Preparing to Teach with the Web
  • This is a shortish supplement to the above work.

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