Course Design

Digital Literacy Open Education Course

An asynchronous, survey-style, open course that meant to familiarize students and teachers alike with web-based tools freely available for content creation.

Cits 220 Course — Integrating Internet Tools and Technologies

A 200-level three-credit asynchronous online open course. This course explores the use of “social software” and some old and some emerging Web 2.0 applications. The format of this course is a survey style with a heavy emphasis on participation and exploration, not an in-depth examination.

Content Curation Unit

A microlearning unit for my students who are interested in content creation on the web. Targeted towards inexperienced and adult learners who are experiencing technology for the first time.

Introduction to Teaching with Technology

Designed and delivered in Moodle as an asynchronous online course for instructors who never experienced technology-mediated learning or work from a distance. This training course consists of tutorials for Moodle and Adobe Connect (two major technologies used in course delivery) along with resources for online pedagogy and rapid course development such as a template for the Syllabus, learning objectives builder, lesson planner, and others.
intro to teaching

The front page of the course (click on the image to enlarge)

 

example of the training module

Example of a learning module (click on the image to enlarge)

 

Introduction to Online Learning

The target student body for the course consisted of non-traditional adult learners who already held full-time jobs with little college experience. With these students, there was a clear need to develop a robust student orientation that established clear program expectations, technical requirements, as well as provide tutorials and tips on how to succeed as an online learner. Designed and delivered in Moodle.

intro to online learning

The front page of the course (click on the image to enlarge)

 

learning modules tudents

Example of learning modules (click on the image to enlarge)

 

Course Template

Online course model designed in Moodle to help facilitate the development of course materials for new online instructors. The template includes:

  1. modeling of a well structured online course;
  2. chunking of course content and creation of weekly activities based on best pedagogical practices using the Quality Matters rubric;
  3. a consistent look-and-feel for the teaching and learning experience that helps alleviate extraneous-load that comes with inconsistent and chaotic course design.
front of the template

The front page of the template with placeholders for content (click on the image to enlarge)

 

weekly structure example

Week or module structure (click on the image to enlarge)