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Creating Successful Online Learning Environments
Content
VCC workshop
March 2009
Tannis Morgan
Guiding Questions
1. What does content look like in your course?Eg. is your content dynamic
(changing all the time) or relatively static? Is your content a support to the textbook/readings?
2. What concerns do you have about conveying your content online?
Guiding Questions
Guiding Questions
3. What do you do best when you deliver your content?
Guiding Questions
4. How do you think your content could be enhanced?
Guiding Questions
5. What resources are available to you?
Borrow
• http://www.freelearning.ca• http://ocwfinder.com/
• http://www.flickr.com• http://compfight.com/
• http://www.oculture.com/2007/02/university_vide.html
• http://cnx.org/
But don’t steal ( unless you have to…)
Tools
Use the tools to connect the dots…
Tools
There are many options available to us: text, audio, video, screencasts
What combination works for you and your students?
Instructor Voice
Write as you would as if you were talking to the students directly
Don't regurgitate the readings
Connecting Dots
Use your narrative to connect the dots between the content and the activities.
Avoid sending students from page-to-page, link-to-link without making the narrative connection between all the components
Signposts
• Provide students with instructions about what part of the website or section of video you want them to read or view--help them focus
Use visual cues: looks DO matter
a. no design example (jpeg)
b. Html version (nursing sample)
Connecting Dots
Audio is an underused tool• Intros• Summaries• contextualizing• content
Considerations:• short clips or long clips? • transcript or not?• Does it add value or repeat?
Connecting Dots
Screencasts• useful for orienting students or
talking them through a digital document, diagram, photo, formula, process, etc.
example
Connecting Dots
Do’s and don’ts
• DON'T use ppt, unless there is an audio narrative.
• Don’t assume a sequence = connections
• Getting creative: metaphor to connect, narrative, real life scenarios—what suits the ‘story’ of your course?
Connecting Dots
Do’s and don’ts
• Consider organizing content in 15-30 minute learning chunks– Easier to step away and come back to– Other thoughts?
The other end of the continuum…
Dynamic content or just-in-time teaching
• Elluminate live or “live” classrooms• Weblogs
Thanks!
• Revisit the presentation and resources at:
http://testingcentre.wordpress.com/