Planning Courses
This section provides planning information which guides faculty through the process of organizing and designing their material for presentation in both online & classroom based courses.
Online Courses
- Understanding Online Course Types
- Planning & Designing Online Course Content
- Course Preparation Check Sheet
- Tips for Effective Online Teaching
- General Management Strategies
- Managing Online Whiteboards
- Discussion Thread Management
- Effective Chatrooms
- Material Delivery Methods
- Course Management Tips
Classroom Based Courses
Content Development
The Content Development module provides extensive information about the pedagogy for designing instructional units as well as designing content for presentation online.
- Overview & Guidelines
- Demonstrating Critical Thinking with Discussion Forums
- Designing Engaging Online Learning Materials (off site)
- Educational Use of Digital Storytelling (off site)
- Integrating Wikis into the Curriculum
- Portals, Case Tools & Wiki Resources
- Teaching & Learning Techniques
- Teaching with Blogs
- Teaching with PowerPoint (off site)
- Workshop for designing online courses
Assessment & Evaluation
At this point you have already identified learner outcomes at the program, course and unit levels. Now you are ready to design assessments that allows the student to SHOW you that she or he has mastered the culminating course outcomes you have so clearly laid out for them.
General
The course has now run for a term or two and it is time to make it more learner centered. The following resources can assist in planning course enhancements.
- Course Tools
- Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (off-site)
- Educational Blogs (off-site)
- Management Practices
- Web based reusable learning module (off site)
- Interactive Instructional Methods
- Modifying Bloom's Taxonomy to Meet 21st Century Pedagogies
- Self Directed Learning Through Technology (off site)
- Web based Teaching & Learning Resources
Other Tools & Techniques
Materials in this section address selected course management systems, and links to information about this site, and external resources.
Blackboard 6.3.1.x
The following are quick start guides for many of the common Blackboard tools. All of the tutorials are designed to integrate seamlessly into course shells.
- Blackboard Basics (faculty version)
- Getting Started with Blackboard (student version)
- Adding ProQuest Durable Links to Blackboard
Using Selected Functions
- Announcements
- Assignments
- Discussions
- Dropbox
- Viewing Grades
- Using Group Function
- Changing Passwords
- Printing
- Viewing
- Wikis
Blackboard 8 Tutorials
The following tutorials were designed for faculty and Instructional Designers.
Angel
- Add Announcements
- Add Content
- Content Access Control
- Course Viewer
- Creating Learning Teams
- Discussion Forums
- Drop box Tutorial
- Gradebook Wizard
- Learning Object Repository
- Quiz Tool
- Student Polls
- Syllabus Tool