Lesson 1: Online Course Outline

Overview

In this unit, you will work with your groups to develop your course outlines. For Unit 3, you have almost five weeks. Allot yourselves two weeks per lesson so you are not cramming everything into the last week.

 

Standards, Benchmarks, and Learning Objectives

In this Unit, we're indirectly addressing almost all of the SREB Standards for Quality Online Teaching and Quality Online Courses simultaneously simply by uncovering and discussing our assumptions about online teaching and online courses. Please continue to review the SREB Standards for Quality Online Teaching and Quality Online Courses which are listed after lesson 2 in this course content module.

To help you meet those standards, we must define a set of specific learning objectives. So, for this lesson, you will:

• Utilize socio-constructivist acivities and synthesize your learning experiences by creating an online course outline.
• Analyze other online course outlines to support and promote individual and group understanding of instructional design.

 

Assignments

1. Scanning your resources . Approximately 1 hour.
   • Download the two documents from the OTLO Centra Agenda called OTLO_ID_handout.pdf and supplemental_handout 1.pdf and review these resources.
   • Scan the Table of Contents of your book "Essential Elements" and keep it on hand.
   • Review any readings that you want to remind yourself to keep in mind as you start to develop your own courses.
   • Know other resources, such as:
     • NM Standards & Benchmarks online at

       http://www.nmlites.org/sitemap/index.html or

       http://www.nmlites.org/standards/index.html

     • If there is a resource that you need that we haven't provided, email Julia at juparra@nmsu.edu and we'll try to find what you need.
2. Collaborative group work plans. Approximately 30 minutes
   • Submit your completed Collaborative Group Work Plans to Julia at juparra@nmsu.edu by Wednesday, January 24.
   • How the assignment is graded - points TBD.
3. Discussion assignment 1: Post your course outlines. Approximately 2-3 hours.
   • Based on your work during our Centra Meeting, complete a draft course outline for your course.
   • In WebCT Discussions, Topic: Course Outlines, select one group member to post your group's course outline.
   • How the assignment is graded - points TBD for a completed draft course outline.
4. Discussion assignment 2: Reply to other learners Approximately 30 minutes.
   • In WebCT Discussions, Topic: Course Outlines, review and reply to the posts for each group.
     • Did your group miss something that you see might help your outline? What do you see that stand out as the common elements for a course outline?
   • How assignment is graded - 10 points
     • Again, there are no wrong or right answers here.
     • Reply to all groups using above criteria to obtain full credit.
5. Group Synchronous Event. Approximately 1-2 hours.
   • Attend a Centra event in early February
     • Date TBD
   • How assignment is graded - points TBD
     • Attendance noted
     • View the archive and send a WebCT email to instructors with a summary of the event.

 

Next step

Continue to Lesson 2

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