Excellence in Online Teaching and Learning

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Excellence in Online Teaching and Learning

• Building a Course Skeleton
• Southern University Online
• Carolyn Person, PhD

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Goals

• Instructors will create the organizational
  structure (skeleton) of their online courses.
• Instructors will create skeletons based on Finks
  Five Principles of Good Course Design.
• Instructors will use their skeletons to place
  documents in the Blackboard Course Management
  System.

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Description

• The course skeleton for online courses hosted in
  Southern University Online mimics the SUBR Online
  Course Model.

FOR MORE INFO...
Email Mr. Hilton LaSalle to view an online
tutorial about instructors use of Blackboard 6.

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Course Skeleton
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Developing the Skeleton

• Syllabus Template and Folder
• You must have WinZip installed on your computer.
  Make a folder on your hard drive and name it
  Online Course. Download the WinZip file with the
  syllabus template and folder in it by clicking on
  the following text link Syllabus Template and
  Folder. After downloading, the zipped folder,
  extract it to the Online Course folder on your
  computer.
• Syllabus Template
• You must have a registered copy of Course Genie
  installed on your computer. You will receive the
  license number after the first of November. You
  can download an evaluation copy from Horizon
  Wimba.
• Media can be added when you are ready to generate
  the course.

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Developing the Skeleton, Cont.

• Lesson Planning Procedures
• The next elements of your online course skeleton
  are your individual lessons.
• Read an online article about planning lessons by
  clicking on the following text link Lesson
  Planning Procedures
• You can download prepared lesson folders by
  clicking on the following text link Lesson
  Folders
• Media can be added when you generate the lessons
  in each folder.

FOR MORE INFO...
View the training calendar at SUAMCOnline,
determine which dates/times are free, then email
as at Schedule_at_SUAMCOnline.net.
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Webliography

• Include a webliography list in your skeleton
• You might expect a course to have a reference
  list or bibliography. Instead you might find a
  "webliography".
• Patricia Hess (2003) defines webliography as a
  critical guide to electronic resources on the
  World Wide Web and CD-ROM, including electronic
  texts, HTML-encoded texts, hypertexts, secondary
  works, commentaries, and indexes.'
• The purpose of the webliography is to collect,
  organize, and disseminate pointers to information
  and examples on the World Wide Web.
• Webliography is a word which cannot be found in a
  standard Webster's or Oxford dictionary. The
  definition of webliography that applies for use
  in online courses loosely fluctuates somewhere
  between a bibliography of primary sources and a
  multimedia site. In its broader and more well
  known definition, webliography denotes an
  enumerative list of hypertext links surrounding a
  common subject or theme

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Discussion Board

• Make a list of the questions that you might ask
  during the course and in which week you might ask
  them.
• Create temporary agendas for the weekly chats.

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Schedule

• Include a weekly schedule for lessons,
  assignments, quizzes, discussions, etc.

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Pedagogy

• These are different resources that will aid in
  the building of the course skeleton.
• Developing and Teaching a Course
• Preparing to Teach the Large Lecture Course
• Assessing Large Classes
• Delivering Effective Lectures
• Online Pedagogy Theories and Best Practices
• Distance Learning in Louisiana