Converting Your On-Ground Course to an Online Course

Taking an Online Course through 4 Levels of “Online”-ness to become a Fully Online Course

Curriculum Design Independent Project: Brenda Kerr, Instructional Technology Specialist
Middle Tennessee State University

[ Goals ] [ Objectives ] [ MTSU Support Information ] [ Table of Contents ]

Goals

• Develop a Course: Develop a series of handouts, an online course, and an on-ground course that lead faculty through the various steps they need to take in moving their courses from fully on-ground to fully online course.

• Develop media (audio, simulations, etc) that teach course development concepts quickly. (A video can teach a concept quicker than reading a text description of the same process.) [This Goal will be addressed later]

• Develop this project around the Learning Object Architecture.

• Emphasize the Student Centered Approach to Course Design: Help faculty design their teaching around concepts rather than covering a huge amount of content. Help faculty design activities that teach students how to figure out the answer by apply previous learning to new situations. (Concentrate on problem solving skills).

Objectives

• After taking this course faculty will be able to identify and develop web supported courses, web enhanced courses, hybrid/blended courses, and totally online courses.

• After taking the course faculty will be able to create active learning modules that utilize communication/collaboration, rote-learning, simulation, presentation of new topics, gaming/role playing, and student evaluation tools.

• After taking the course faculty will be able to create course materials in a variety of formats (or will know who on campus to contact for help in converting course materials) so that they will be accessible to students with a variety of physical and situational disabilities.

• After taking the course faculty will know how to use MTSU eLearning site license software.

MTSU D2L Support Information

• Faculty Instructional Technology Center (FITC): 615-904-8189 - Hours: 8 AM to 4:30 PM, Monday through Friday.

• MTSU D2L Support web site: http://www.mtsu.edu/d2lsupport/

• MTSU Information Technology Division help desk: 615-898-5345 - Available to faculty and student 24/7.

 Table of Contents

• Goals

• Objectives

• MTSU D2L Support Information

• Levels of Course Management System (CMS) Integration in College Courses

  • Level 1: Web supported / Web-presence:

  • Level 2: Web-enhanced courses:

  • Level 3: Hybrid / Blended / Web Centric courses

  • Level 4: Web-based / Full web courses

• Assignment #1

• Level 1: Web supported / Web-presence (Examples)

  • Online Course Materials/Handouts/Grades

  • Course Activities

• Level 2: Web-enhanced courses (Examples)

  • Online Course Materials/Handouts/Grades

  • Online Course Activities

  • Email or Discussion Board

  • Assignment Drop Box

  • Rote Learning

• Level 3: Hybrid / Blended / Web Centric courses (Examples)

  • Online Course Materials/Handouts/Grades

  • Online Course Activities

  • Communication/Collaboration: Discussion Board

  • Online Reading or Reading from Book / Online Lecture / Quiz Tool / Assignment Tool

  • Lab demonstration (Online presentation and study tool later)

  • Gaming (Role Playing, Communication, Simulation)

  • Online Learning Object Repositories

• Level 4: Web-based / Full web courses (Examples)

  • Online Course Materials/Handouts/Grades

  • Online Activities

• Creating the Learning Modules

  • Content Module Settings

• Active Learning Categories and Associated Tools

• Assignment #2

• Evaluating Student Learning

• Assignment #3

• Disabilities

  • What is accessibility?

• Assignment #4

• Appendix 1

• Appendix 2: Software

  • MTSU Site License Software Available at No Additional Cost to Faculty

  • Other inexpensive software that may be helpful in creating course content

• Appendix 3: Curriculum Map - Steps in D2L and Online Teaching Preparedness Provided by the ITD Faculty Instructional Technology Center Staff

• Appendix 4: Graphic Reconstruction of D2L Curriculum Offered by MTSU’s FITC Center

  • Figure 1: All Topics and Assignments

  • Figure 2: Assignment 1 Extended

  • Figure 3: Assignment 2 Extended

  • Figure 4: Assignment 3 Extended

  • Figure 5: Assignment 4 Extended

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