BOLDD Guide Project at a Glance:
Our Guide is designed to provide teachers, administrators, supervisors, and in some instances learners, with a compendium of best practices in the design and delivery of online learning:
Before the Design Phase
- Introduction to the field of Basic Online Language Learning
- Questions and considerations before undertaking a BOLDD project
- Kinds of training to prepare to design online courses
- General design issues for online environments
- Language specific design issues for online language teaching and learning
Designing an online course or program
- Designing for your program/learning context
- Working with your LMS
- Backward design from learning outcomes
- Pacing
- Choosing course materials and ancillaries
- Synchronous v. asynchronous sessions
- Assessments
- Preparing teachers
- Preparing learners to be successful
Delivering online courses
- There is no 'winging it' online
- Orientation
- First day/start here
- Course management
- Office hours and contact
- Student management
- Testing (online, proctoring)
- Course evaluation
- Re-design