This summer, why not join your colleagues to learn about the latest and best practices for teaching online? We’ll practice by applying those ideas to one of your online (or hybrid) courses, under the coaching tutelege of Molly and Andy. Receive a $200 stipend too?! The format involves:
- short sessions on current best practices for online teaching and course design,
- demonstrations of sample innovative approaches and tech tool options,
- working lab sessions where participants will work with their own course materials in their new Canvas course shell or alternative LMS,
- questions, sharing and collaboration between participants,
- a light lunch
Attendance is limited to 7 participants during each week of June 18-22 or August 6-10. Apply for your spot by March 30, submitting your application to tlc@bhc.edu or your dean.
Learning outcomes for the Online Course Redesign Institute:
- Explore best practices and online learning research as they impact course learning outcomes.
- Identify one’s own course components that can be redesigned with effective online pedagogy and
site design principles in mind.
- Incorporate best practices and effective online teaching principles into an existing online
course in ways that maximize student engagement and streamline faculty workload, tailoring decisions to fit the course learning outcomes.
- Develop site design skills through practice with Canvas, BHC’s new Learning Management System (or other LMS if the faculty member utilizes an LMS provided by the publisher or other choice
- Create a new course map, syllabus, module template, and at least 2 lessons for the selected course.
If you have taken the plunge to follow leaders in your field through Twitter as one way you are keeping up, consider sharing your Twitter feed with your students. Did you know you can embed the scrolling feed of tweets so that it is visible on your course web site? See http://www.twitter.com/about/resources/widgets for more information.
You’ve heard of Atomic Learning, the free tutorial service that provides thousands of 2-3-minute video tutorials for using any of 250+ software titles? Have you tried it yet? This would be a great week to learn something new or something you would like to know better! Remember, to access Atomic Learning, you need to be logged into myBlackHawk, click the Employee tab, and click the Atomic Learning link at the top of the Employee Learning channel. If you’d like to follow the links on our features in Atomic Learning page, open myBH first in one window and then click one of the links on our page to be taken directly to that tutorial. The Atomic Learning interface is very intuitive, but if you’d like some hints on using it to save time and assist you in finding what you want more easily, take a look at our brief Getting Started guide.
Have you heard of Ted Talks? Ted Talks is a web site that houses thousands of high-quality, credible video presentations, most of which are licensed by Creative Commons for free use in educational settings. You can search by topic, by theme, by discipline, or by length of videos. There are some ads, but they are not of the pop-up variety, so relatively inconspicuous. That means, you can show them in class, followed by discussions. You can have the students view them outside of class and write 2-paragraph commentaries answering such questions as:
- What are the main ideas covered?
- Which points did you find informative as they relats to the case we discussed in class on Tues?
- Evaluate the speaker.
Or alternatively, perhaps link to 10 videos on a common theme for a “virtual conference within your class.” Have the students select 5 to watch from your list. Then, write a 1-2 page relfection paper or post to a class blog or discussion board identifying and discussing common themes across the 5 watched videos. What did they learn? See the web site for additional samples and requirements. www.tedtalks.com
Join our guest blogger this month, Nan Reddy (BHC advisor), as she launches our series on student success strategies that faculty can contribute to with minimal time or effort. Find her in our Forums area.
Be the first to see the new online TLC Copyright Diagnostic Tool and learn more about copyright as it applies to course materials you use in your courses! Created by Charlet Key, Molly Baker and Joshua Ballard April 12, 2011, 12:30PM, B-203
Our new web site is ready for your review! Take note below of the many ways you (faculty AND staff) can find great resources and learning opportunities on our site, share your own knowledge with others, and request additional information or resources. For best use of our site, update your browsers to the most recent version (e.g., IE 8 or Firefox 3.6).
- Click your employment role at BHC at the top, left of the home page to view a landing page of key resources tailored for you. Bookmark this page!
- Explore the A-Z Site Map for our ELC website (top, middle of home page).
- Click the A-Z Resources link in the Learn menu to see the full range of learning topics available (bold) or under development (not bolded yet). Bookmark this too!
- Search by topic in the search box at the top.
- Visit the “Register and Reserve” page to register for events, reserve equipment or request to use the TLC facility (top, middle of home page).
- Note the current Twitter feeds sent by the TLC staff to support your learning (right sidebar).
- View and click on the links in our Tag Cloud of topics (right sidebar).
- Explore the top five areas in each of our menus!
Over the coming months, we will be continuing to develop new content, highlight features of our site for your “lifelong” learning, and encourage your involvement in learning at Black Hawk College. Let us know what you’d like to see us develop first on the A-Z Resources page! We would love to receive your feedback and input!
Saw this reference today to lots of learner-content interactivity examples for online or hybrid courses. If you’re looking for inspiration as you update your courses, you might find some here! http://blog.cathy-moore.com/elearning-samples/ I ran across this link in LearningSolutions magazine, which often as great examples and ideas for elearning/online learning.
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