Teachers Teaching Teachers How to Teach Online Online  

Carol Decker
Erin Hagar
Juliet Szyprowski
Sue Liggett

Computer Applications Dept.
Course Designer
Course Designer
Retired English Dept

 
  Montgomery College • 51 Mannkee St. •Rockville, MD 28050 http://www.montgomerycollege.edu/ctl/Resources/resources.html

 

Week 1: Planning Your Distance Learning Course
http://www.nea.org/he/abouthe/Quality.pdf
A report prepared by the National Education Association that explores benchmarks for developing quality distance learning courses and programs.

Week 2: Developing Your Online Course Materials
Illinois Online Network:
How to Work with the Textbook Effectively Online; Alternatives to Online Lecture; and
Accommodating Multiple Learning Styles in an Online Course
http://illinois.online.uillinois.edu/IONresources/instructionaldesign/index.html

Making Your Course Accessible to All Learners
http://www.montgomerycollege.edu/Departments/dispsvc/universal_design-lec3.html

WebCT Course Design and Accessibility
http://www.webct.com/service/ViewContent?contentID=1790151

What are Learning Objects?
http://www.aect.org/Announcements/Objects.html

Merlot (Multimedia Educational Resources for Learning and Online Teaching) -
Free Resources for Faculty and Students
http://www.merlot.org

Tips for Internet Searching
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/FindInfo.html


Evaluating Web Sites
http://www.montgomerycollege.edu/library/webevalintro.htm

Links to Multimedia
http://one.fhda.edu/training/training_packages/multimedia/relatedWebsites_mm.html#mul
timedia

Week 4: Maximizing Student Engagement in Your Online Course: Activities and Assignments
Using the Web Effectively – Filamentality
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/formats.html

The WebQuest Page
http://edweb.sdsu.edu/webquest/
 

"Ready-to-use" case studies for the science disciplines: http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/projects/cases/ubcase.htm

Simulations:
http://one.fhda.edu/training/training_packages/simulations/relatedWebsites_sim.html

@ONE tutorial on "Using Simulations to Enhance Teaching and Learning" http://one.fhda.edu/training/onlinetutorials.htm#sim

Visit this site from Maricopa Community Colleges in Arizona.
"This searchable collection includes sites that range from courses delivered entirely via the web to courses that offer specific activities related to a class assignment or perhaps courses that offer class support materials via the web." 
http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/tl/index.html

Week 6: Dialogic Writing in Online Courses
"Traci's Lists of Ten" on the Daedalus site includes over three dozen Lists of writing prompts and writing assignments and prewriting activities relevant to all disciplines.
http://www.tengrrl.com/tens/abstract.shtml

Jakob Nielsen explains why users scan texts when reading on the web. More importantly, Nielson gives tips on how to write texts that can be scanned and hence will be approachable to online readers.
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/9710a.html and
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/whyscanning.html

Week 8: Assessing Student Learning Online
An in-depth tutorial that covers the "whys" and "hows" of assessment, with a special section devoted to assessment in the online environment.
http://www.lts.rmit.edu.au/renewal/assess/index.htm

An Eric article about assessing learners online.
http://ericacve.org/docs/pfile03.htm

WEEK 10: File management tutorial http://www.montgomerycollege.edu/Departments/ctl/Handouts/DigFiles.pdf

Recordkeeping
Online line grids and gradebook used to track progress
Principle 4.2.3
http://www.fgcu.edu/onlinedesign/manage.html

Communication
Managing Asynchronous/Synchronous Electronic Communication
Principle 4.4
http://www.fgcu.edu/onlinedesign/manage.html

Promoting Online Learning
Strategies to develop and encourage online learning
Principle 4.5
http://www.fgcu.edu/onlinedesign/manage.html