Conquering the content : a step-by-step guide to online course design
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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San Francisco:
Jossey-Bass,
2008.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series: | Jossey-Bass guides to online teaching and learning
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Table of Contents:
- Design with learning in mind
- Learning in the twenty-first century
- Advantages to having a course online
- How Web-based learning is the same as classroom learning
- Learning styles
- Think "learning," not "teaching"
- The online student?s environment
- How Web-based learning is different from classroom learning
- Action steps
- 2. Design with the future in mind
- It?s okay to be uncomfortable
- The future will be here sooner than you think
- Creating the outline
- The learning guide
- The modules
- Sile systems
- Managing course structure
- Action steps
- 3. Design with assessment in mind
- Self-assessment
- Authentic assessments
- Quizzes
- Teaching for the long term
- Questions for first-time Web-based instructors
- Action steps
- 4. Design with organization in mind
- Learning guide development
- Elements of the learning guide
- Prioritizing in creating your course
- Resource gathering
- Web-based aspects of the course
- Choosing the most important topics
- Instructional guidance
- Actions steps
- 5. Design with content in mind
- Introduction to chunking
- How the brain processes information
- Chunking for a text-based lecture or content presentation
- Bridges
- Active learning opportunities
- Prioritizing course development and revisions
- Evaluating the effectiveness of chunking
- Action steps
- 6. Design with process in mind
- Best practices - Design using someone else?s mind
- Action step
- 7. Design with navigation in mind
- Student access to module components
- Continuous improvement
- Documenting for revisions
- Link rot
- Where to go from here
- Action steps
- What you have conquered!