Ed Bowen, Dallas County Community College District, Thursday, 2/18/10, 11:45 a.m.
Ruth Clark: Building Expertise.
Presentation is loaded on Educause website.
If he had $100 to spend on course improvement, $99 spent on faculty development and $1 on course design.
Very little consideration ever by institution to distance learning. Rarely acknowledged
Development of online courses done a lot by the seat of the pants. Development rushed since so many options are now available for students.
Building airplanes in the sky (video)
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Pedagogy is almost always ignored in course design.
- Behaviorist-empty students that you need to fill with knowledge
- Cognitivism-determine how brain functions to
- Constructivism-students learn and work in a networked environment
- Connectivism-exploration, multidisciplinary
CMSs are similar to behaviorism, where you have boxes to place materials such as discussions, announcements, assignments, etc.
Think of online courses as a visual media and not textual.
The brain seeks patterns. Words are more difficult to remember than images.
One of the biggest issues is that courses are developed based on what faculty want rather than what students want.
Never have a dead end in your course pages
Massive open online course (MOOC). Each student created their own learning environment.
Objectives must align with the strategies must align with the assessment.
So true...so true!
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