Interested in teaching online?
A good online course starts with well-articulated learning objectives. Content and activities are then designed to target those objectives specifically, and optimized to leverage the online environment to foster deep engagement, interaction, collaboration and ways that online learners can make their thinking and learning visible to the instructor and peers. And finally, methods of providing feedback, assessments and/or evaluations are developed that are authentic methods given the online nature of the learning environment.
That’s it! The magic formula for an effective, efficient and engaging high-quality online course design!
So, are you ready to take the first step?? Don’t know where to start?
SUNY Online Teaching offers a variety of resources for faculty interested in online course development and design including:
- Are you ready to teach online? https://online.suny.edu/facultyreadiness/ – Free checklist of technical skills needed to teach online.
- Interested in online teaching? https://online.suny.edu/interested/ – a self-paced course to establish a baseline understanding of what it means to teach online asynchronously (Not about teaching MOOCs, or self-paced). A badge and community interaction are offered as options.
- Teach Online – Step by Step – https://online.suny.edu/onlineteaching/page/course-design/ – a step-b-step process and curated and created resources to use in your online course design and faculty development processes.
- OSCQR – our online course quality rubric of effective online course design practices – http://oscqr.suny.edu – We offer free OSCQR training webinars to SUNY campuses by request.
- Video Playlists – on various topics and themes for online faculty, instructional designers, and distance learning administrators. (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_1ZW3kCFnIFsj2h7TO_5ig/playlists)
- Webinar recordings on various topics: https://sunycpd.eventsair.com/sot-sp24 – our webinars are free and open to anyone regardless of SUNY affiliation.
These resources are all openly licensed and feely available and may be of use to online instructional designers IDs) and other interested in helping or supporting online faculty and the design and development of their online courses.
Below are some additional specific topics that might be of interest to both online faculty and IDs:
- Supporting online learner success – what online faculty can do – https://online.suny.edu/onlineteaching/resources/supporting-online-student-success/
- Designing online learning activities: https://online.suny.edu/onlineteaching/page/learning-activities/
- The design of Group Work & Collaborative Learning Online
- The community of inquiry framework: https://online.suny.edu/onlineteaching/page/coi/
- Designing Authentic online assessments: https://online.suny.edu/onlineteaching/page/onlineassessment/
- Developing online community and interaction: https://online.suny.edu/onlineteaching/page/community-interaction/
- Resources for Asynchronous Online instruction: https://online.suny.edu/onlineteaching/page/asynchronous/
- Calculating time on task: https://online.suny.edu/onlineteaching/page/timeontask/
- Suggestions for learner engagement: https://online.suny.edu/onlineteaching/page/engagement/
We have also developed a number of course templates for a variety of instructional modalities that we have made freely and openly available for anyone to use/adapt. http://bit.ly/dletemplates These course templates are mobile friendly and optimized for accessibility, in addition to being OSCQR-informed with the latest research-based effective online practices.
SUNY Online also offers an online teaching certificate: https://sunycpd.eventsair.com/otc/
And, you can check other SUNY certificate programs here: https://cpd.suny.edu/suny-certificate-programs/
Let me know if you have any questions ☺
Alex
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