Analyze the Audience

Audience should have a working knowledge of topics to be presented (knowledge of subject).

The participants should be at the Trainer level.

• Establishment of online training program

The critical issues for this topic are compensation for faculty, selection of web course delivery tool, and selection of web page design tool.

• How do DL and F2F classes differ? How are they similar?
• Rethink (restructure) your class for online teaching/learning
• Syllabus: What needs to be different?
• Discussion groups and expectations;assignment submission and deadlines; testing;office hours; announcements; identify student skills
• Content: How will content be altered, if so?
• Pedagogy: Standards of good practice; Providing feedback
• Online Technology: Commercial service
• Basic computer skills: File management, creating a web page with Word, uploading to the web, managing email
• Communicating online Group work/interactivity
• Facilitating discussion groups; evaluation of contributions
• Assessment of course

Who are the "experts" and what can they add?

~ Designing an Online Training Program: Context and Constructions, PowerPoint Presentation, Stephen Steele - Anne Arundel Community College

~ Copyright, Ownership, Fair Use, DMCA and the Online Environment, PowerPoint Presentation, Kim Kelley - UMUC

Online Resources

~ Online Academy, http://www.aacc.cc.md.us/ola

~ Frederick Community College Web Training Syllabus, http://www.fcc.cc.md.us/distance_learning/web_course_training.cfm

~ Montgomery College Center for Teaching and Learning, (click on Resources), http://www.mc.cc.md.us/Departments/ctl/home.htm

~ CCBC Virtual Academy
http://www.ccbc.cc.md.us/fs/va_winter.htm

~ Systems Approach to Designing Online Learning Activities, http://www.umuc.edu/virtualteaching/module1/systems.html

~ On-Line Pedagogy Connected Education Portal,
http://jac.sbs.ohio-state.edu/cable/pedagogy/default.htm

~ Guide for Trainers, http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/guide_trainers.html

~ Web Based Learning Resources Library, http://www.outreach.utk.edu/weblearning/

~ Chronicle of Higher Education Distance Learning Resources, http://chronicle.com/free/resources/menu.php3?Category_Type=20307070

~ Designing Instruction for Web Based Learning (Web Training Modules), http://www.dlrn.org/educ/course.html

~ Faculty Development 101 (Web Modules from Penn State), http://www.worldcampus.psu.edu/facdev101/index.html

~ World Wide Web Courseware Developers' Listserv Web Site, http://www.unb.ca/wwwdev/

~ Incentives and Obstacles Influencing Higher Education Faculty and Administrators to Teach Via Distance, http://www.westga.edu/~distance/rockwell24.html

~ Copyright Considerations in Distance Education and Technology-Mediated Instruction
http://www.aacc.nche.edu/headline/070700head2.htm

~ Multimedia Projects for Educational Purposes-Fair Use Guidelines
http://mason.gmu.edu/~scampbel/copymed.html

~ Distance Learning Course Ownership http://distancelearn.about.com/education/distancelearn/library/weekly/aa061900a.htm

~ ONLINE! A Reference Guide to Using Internet Sources http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/online/

~ The Pew Learning and Technology Program Who Owns Online Courses and Course Materials? Intellectual Property Policies for a New Learning Environment http://www.center.rpi.edu/PewSym/mono2.html

~ Distance Learning Money Issues: Calculate the Costs of Online Courses, Costs of Distance Education http://distancelearn.about.com/education/distancelearn/library/blpages/blroi.htm

Print Resources

• Develop or identify three experiential exercises to reinforce this topic.

Handout to practice technology file management. Handout on creating a web page with Netscape Composer.

• Take an online course. Shadow someone teaching
• Develop at least 5 possible discussion questions.

Assessment Strategies

Faculty should fill out feedback info sheets Faculty should also put courses online with success.