Interested in teaching online?

Written by CEN-PICKETAL. Posted in Instructional Design, program, resources, 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.

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What do you mean by “Online Learning?”

Written by CEN-PICKETAL. Posted in reflection

It may be that you equate asynchronous online teaching and learning (rich, engaging, interactive cohorts of learners guided by a “present” instructor) with self-paced online learning (individual, no interaction, no instructor presence, summative feedback that may or may not be automated, or timely) – that is an assumption to check, and NOT necessarily the case.

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