Overview

Welcome to the Online Teaching & Learning Opportunities (OTLO) program. This program will facilitate your exploration of the concepts, tools, and techniques needed for the design, development, and delivery of your online courses. Your journey will include participation in:

• OTLO Orientation,
• Fostering Online Learning Communities course,
• Instructional Design for Online Learning course, and
• Course Development Practicuum

 

Timeline

 

Program Objectives

New Mexico students need more opportunities to achieve their educational dreams. Great online courses and experienced online teachers will help provide students with those opportunities. The overarching goal of the OTLO program is to prepare you to develop and deliver online courses for New Mexico high school students. The courses you will learn to create will be standards-based for your content area and follow best-practices guidelines for distance education. To help us achieve that goal, we will be using the SREB Standards for Quality Online Teaching as a guide for our program objectives and learning goals.

 

Course Format

After the F2F Orientation, there will be three courses. The first two will be 6-weeks each and the last will be a more open-ended course development practicum lasting for approximately 6 months.

 

Format Overviews of Courses
Course 1: Fostering Online Learning Communities
Unit 1: Online Community Basics			Unit 2: Asynchronous Community Tools				Unit 3: Synchronous Community Tools
Lesson 1: Your Communities	Lesson 2: Concepts of Community		Lesson 1: Some asynchronous tools		Lesson 2: Effective use of asynchronous tools in community		Lesson 1: Some synchronous tools		Lesson 2: Effective use of synchronous tools in community
Course 2: Instructional Design for Online Learning
Unit 1: TBD			Unit 2: TBD				Unit 3: TBD
Lesson 1:	Lesson 2:		Lesson 1		Lesson 2		Lesson 1		Lesson 2
Course 3: Course Development Practicum
Unit 1: TBD	Unit 2: TBD		Unit 3: TBD		Unit 4: TBD		Unit 5: TBD		Unit 6: TBD
Units last 1 month. Each unit will have assignments due bi-weekly.

Each course will be explained in more detail in its individual syllabus. However, the above table should help you gain a good mental image of how each of the courses fit together and

 

Program Resources

During this program you will have the opportunity to experience and explore several different tools suitable for distance education. There are so many unique and helpful tools out there that it sometimes can be very confusing to keep track of them all. In order to avoid that confusion, we will minimize our primary course resources to the following:

• WebCT - http://salsa.nmsu.edu /
• Centra - http://eplace.nmsu.edu/
• OTLO Blog - http://otlo.wordpress.com/

We'll experiment with many other tools, as well. However, the sites above will provide access to any other online tools we may use.

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