Course Design Support
Course Title: Designing and Facilitating Online Courses
for Adult Learners in Moodle
A course to help YOU design and teach online and/or hybrid courses.
Course Description
Designing and delivering a course for online consumption requires unique techniques and disciplines. Using the framework of Universal Design for Learning, this blended learning course provides models and individual coaching for participants so they are able to design and facilitate an online learning course for K-12 Educator professional learning. Each course module includes exercises and elements of online teaching strategy, using a variety of tools and teaching methods. Participants are encouraged to interact within the group and create meaningful and relevant artifacts. The final course product will be a one credit online course developed by participants for a live critique. The course will be taught with the Moodle platform.
Dates & Times:
Module 1: Feb. 25, 2019 - Mar. 3, 2019. (Face-to-Face and Online)
Pre-work: 1-hour - Online. Pre-work assignments must be completed by their due dates.
Face-to-Face: 3 hours from 4 PM - 7 PM on Thurs., Feb 28th
Post-work: 2 hours - Online. All module assignments must be completed by their due dates.
Module 2: Mar. 4, 2019 - Mar. 17, 2019 (Online)
Online: 5 hours - All module assignments must be completed by their due dates.
Mid-Module Zoom Check-in: Either Wed., 3/13 or Thurs., 3/14 from 5 PM - 6 PM (Required) (You will be able to choose your preferred Zoom session at the first face-to-face meeting.)
Module 3: Mar. 18, 2019 - Mar. 31, 2019 (Online)
Online: 5 hours - All module assignments must be completed by their due dates.
Mid-Module Zoom Check-in: Either Wed., 3/27 or Thurs., 3/28 from 5 PM - 6 PM (Required) (You will be able to choose your preferred Zoom session at the first face-to-face meeting.)
Module 4: Apr. 1, 2019 - Apr. 14, 2019 (Online)
Online: 5 hours - All module assignments must be completed by their due dates.
Mid-Module Zoom Check-in: Either Wed., 4/10 or Thurs., 4/11 from 5 PM - 6 PM. (Required) (You will be able to choose your preferred Zoom session at the first face-to-face meeting.)
Module 5: Apr. 15, 2019 - May 5, 2019 (Online)
Online: 5 hours - All module assignments must be completed by their due dates.
Mid-Module Zoom Check-in: Wed., 5/1 or Thurs., 5/2 from 5 PM - 6 PM. (Required) (You will be able to choose your preferred Zoom session at the first face-to-face meeting.)
Module 6: May 6, 2019 - May 12, 2019 (Face-to-Face and Online)
Face-to-Face: 3 hours - 4PM- 7PM on Thurs., 5/9/19.
Post-work: 1 hour - Online. All module assignments must be completed by their due dates.
Location
Two face-to-face sessions at Natick Town Hall, 13 East Central Street, Natick, MA
Module 1, Thursday, February 28, 4PM - 7PM
Module 6, Thursday, May 9, 4PM - 7PM
Online: part of module 1, all of modules 2, 3, 4, 5, part of module 6
Instructor
Grace Magley, M.Ed., Director of Digital Learning - Natick Public Schools
Grace is an enthusiastic educational leader with a strong background in instructional technology, digital learning and educator professional development.She has demonstrated ability in the facilitation and implementation of collaborative cultures that use tech enabled, blended and online learning environments and research-based best practices to achieve success for K-12 educators and the students they serve.
Grace is a board member for TEC Connections Academy Virtual School (TECCA) and a Teaching Fellow for the MAPLE-LearnLaunch Consortium whose mission it is to advance personalized learning in Massachusetts. As an adjunct professor at Framingham State University, she facilitates blended and online graduate courses on Blended Learning, Project Based Learning, and Design Thinking. From 2016-2018, Grace was the program manager for MassCUE’s Leadership in Blended and Digital Learning program for principals and school leaders and she leads a Blended Learning PLN for MassCUE (blendinmass.org).
Which Learning Management System (LMS)?
This course will be offered using only the Moodle platform. Ultimately, we hope you will be teaching your course in the TEC Summer PD program and we are able to support Moodle. Once developed, though, you will be able to transfer your course to another platform.
Cost of course
$200
FREE - IF YOU COMPLETE THIS COURSE and DESIGN YOUR OWN COURSE THAT RUNS IN SUMMER 2019 (contingent on sufficient enrollment). Refunds will be awarded with confirmation that your course is running
FREE for Natick Staff members
Grad Credit
2 Graduate Credits from Worcester State University (30 hours of contact time plus an additional 45 hours of online time to complete assignments and develop the course final products) for an additional $250, due at the first face-to-face session.
PDPs
Earn 45 PDPs