My 4 most important Issues/Considerations when Designing A flexible Learning Course
- Access to Course content. The course must be designed so that the students can access the course content easily within the program. Blackboard is very easy to navigate in, so this would be the program of choice.
- How to set up the assessment part of the course to make it easy for the students to complete online. I recently did a Blackboard 7 course so this point is now not such a big issue as I have learned a little about how to post information to various categories in Blackboard.
- The initial contact with students, how to keep the communication lines open & getting the communication going between students. This was done very well by Bronwyn, Leigh & Terry so that would be a good example to follow. I thought the introduction & promise of a chocolate fish was a good strategy, even if you couldn’t actually eat the fish.
- Ensuring the information provided to students is concise, clear & at the correct level for them. It will be very important to assess the Learner level carefully.
posted by vida at 3:08 pm
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The issues/considerations you have chosen fit well with your area of teaching and development Vida.
Have you had a look at Gilly Salmon's five stage model for online moderation - five levels
access, socialisation, information sharing, Knowledge construction, development (i prefer to call it autonomy - there is an interactive version of the model on the website.
see the model at: http://www.atimod.com/e-moderating/5stage.shtml
Gilly has written two books on the subject - see e-moderating and e-tivities at: http://www.atimod.com/
I also use this model when designing for learning and build access to the communication methods and content into the five stages.
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