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The most important principle for designing lively eLearning is to see eLearning design not as information design but as designing an experience.” - Cathy Moore
Introduction
Introduction
Welcome to the Distance Learning Design mini-course. This class has been created to provide you with strategies to help you design a learning environment that allows your students to focus on the learning and not get bogged down with the technical component.
To begin this class, watch Megan Welter's introduction to the right of this column, then please take some time to visit the Getting Started page for some important information and your first assignment. Then you will make your way through the learning modules at your own pace. Please refer to the calendar for information such as Google Meet times and suggested pacing guides. The total length of the course is approximately 6 hours.
At the end of the class you will be equipped to begin designing your own learning environment in an organized and consistent way that aligns with the main principles of design covered in this course.
Designing for Online Learning Intro.mp4Why learn about distance learning design?
Why learn about distance learning design?
We have been forced into changing how we connect with students. Distance Learning is still teaching, but some things have changed in how we go about it.
What's the same and what's different?
What's the same and what's different?
Same: It's all about relationships. Different: We don't normally relate to our students from a distance mediated by technology.
Same: Key content needs to be organized and "delivered" in manageable chunks. Different: Distance makes time a greater factor than ever. We can't expect to get through the same amount of content as we would in person.
Same: Assessment is essential to designing learning progress. Different: Online assessment requires alternative ways of seeing student understanding.
Same: Student learning happens face-to-face as well as during time apart from teachers. Different: Creating a balance of synchronous and asynchronous connecting and collaborating requires students, as well as teachers, to take responsibility for organizing learning time.
Same: Learning is a social activity. Different: Isolated students have a tremendous need to be able to interact with peers and teachers as they develop social skills and use them in their learning, but have only a fraction of the opportunity to do so via technology.
Strategies for Online Learning
Strategies for Online Learning
Before you begin with the Getting Started section, please take a minute to read Online Teaching: 5 Keys for Effectiveness.
This article is to get you thinking about some of strategies that can be used for effective online teaching.
As you are reading through, think about ways to incorporate some of these strategies and think of questions that you may have. You will have an opportunity to ask these questions in the Discussion Board.
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