Syllabus [Aug. 10, 2011, 3:36 p.m.]
DRAFT-STILL IN PROGRESS
Course developer and facilitator:
Karen Fasimpaur
Preferred contact methods:
email: karen at k12opened dot com
chat or skype by appointment
We will also be having several synchronous web sessions, schedule to be announced.
Webinar #1 - What works and what doesn't?
This webinar will include several online course facilitators and will give participants a chance to ask questions about what works best in online and blended learning.
Webinar #2 - Online learning showcase
This webinar will give participants a chance to show what they're working on and exchange ideas with others.
For each week's goals and tasks, see individual week's content for more detail.
Week 1 (Oct. 3- Oct. ) - Creating your customized plan for this course
Goals:
- Get to know each other
- Make your own plans for this course, including identifying the online instructional materials you will develop
- Discuss possible team collaborations
-
Explore the benefits and challenges of blended and online instruction
Tasks/assignments:
- Introduce yourself
- Set your own objectives for participating in this course, including specifying the materials you will develop in this course
- Identify others you might collaborate with
Week 2 (___) - Thinking about effective instructional design for blended learning
Goals:
- Think about how learning goals, content, activities, instruction, learning, and assessment work together to make an effective instructional design and begin to formulate a design for your own materials
- Identify the learning goals for the instructional materials you will develop in this course
-
Begin setting up the course that will house your materials
Tasks/assignments:
- Think and write about your target learners and what instructional design elements might best serve them
- Write learning goals for the instructional materials you will develop in this course
- Set up your course in the platform of your choice (if you haven't already)
Week 3-6 (___) - Developing your online instructional materials
Goals:
- Develop your online instructional materials
-
Learn more about the following topics and apply them to your materials development
- Content (especiall open-licensed content that you can use in your course)
- Student engagement, including the use of Web 2.0 tools
- Student-centered learning and learner independence
- Differentiation
- Assessment
- Other topics of your choice
- Collaborate with others to discuss these topics as they relate to your instructional environments and to evaluate your course materials and iteratively improve them
Tasks/assignments:
- Work on your online instructional materials
- Explore one or more of the special topics in this section and apply the information you learn to your own materials
- Participate in collaborative sessions with others in the course to talk about what is working well for you and what is not and critique each others' course materials
- Reflect on what you've learned and developed in their course