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Volume 4 Issue 4June/July 2001
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Design and Delivery of An Online Course
As part of the California Virtual Campus Bay Area Regional Center’s (CVC1) continuous commitment to provide resources for colleges and faculty who are interested in teaching online, a new course will be piloted in Fall 2001 at Cabrillo College.
Design and Delivery of an Online Course
This course is for professionals who want to create a course for the World Wide Web. This online class offers a basic introduction to web-based learning. Participants will examine theories and practices of distance education through an online environment. During the semester, participants will develop familiarity with different types of instructional tools available through online courseware. The course will be presented using WebCT, but will also be available as independent HTML pages from CVC1.
The primary goal of this course is for participants, working individually, or in teams, to develop their own course materials for delivery via the web.
The participants will need the following prerequisite skills:
- Expert in the topic they will be teaching or prior instructional design experience.
- Basic knowledge of email, Web browsing, and uploading Web pages.
- Recommended preparation: Introduction to the Internet and the World Wide Web or equivalent experience.
Upon completion of this course, participants will be familiar with and integrate these concepts into the construction and implementation of a web-based learning module:
Online Teaching and Learning – The New Paradigm
Faculty, Student and Institutional Issues in Distance Education
- Copyright, Intellectual Property
- Workload
- Security, testing, confidentiality
- Computer competency
- Quality assurance
Re-engineering a course for online delivery
- Course critique
- Instructional design models
- Integrating technologies
- Teaching someone else’s course
- Using publishers’ courses
Engaging students and stimulating learning in an online environment
- Online classroom dynamics
- Defining and redefining community
- Transforming learning
- Assessment techniques
- Surveying teacher centered courses
- Surveying student-centered courses
- Identifying online learner characteristics
Managing the technology
- Technical difficulties
- Person vs. machine
- Homegrown technology
- Project management
Creating a lesson, module or learning experience
- Developing goals and objectives
- Developing the course content
- Developing activities
- Providing feedback
- Evaluation of online projects
For registration information on this 3-unit class, DM190CD, contact Francine Van Meter, Director, Teaching and Learning Center, Cabrillo College at: http://www.cabrillo.cc.ca.us/~fvanmeter/dm190cd/
