Welcome To EDIT 15

Introduction to Online Course Design-Fall 2021

Modules | Discussions

Learning Unit (module) 6: How People Learn

Notes: There's an important presentation from the Online Learning Consortium Conference last week. The title is "Let's Not Romanticize 2019 for Online Learning". It's all worth checking out. They talk about resources, teaching, learning, modalities of online education including synchronous instruction, equity, and more.

Reminder: I am assisting with the design of EDIT 28, which will allow EVC faculty to teach synchronously online. I could use your help by letting me know how you fared the shut down in March of 2020. Please complete this survey about that time and how you managed. Thanks so much!

For the next two weeks, we will be reviewing the foundations for effective online course design. When teachers become instructional designers of their own online courses, they need to know about educational learning theories and how the theories impact online course design.

Head with stylized gears.

This learning unit covers a lot of ground that starts with your considering why you became an educator and how your teaching practice has been evolving. There are design principles that help students move information from short to long-term memory and strategies for designing activities for students, which help them be able to transfer their learning to new situations.

In addition, we will cover Canvas tools that help with the active design work and continue exploration into group work. Get ready! There is a lot of content in this module and I've been looking for more video content to help you get through it all! Your first assignment/discussion is due on April 16th, it doesn't have to be perfect and requires no research or preparation beyond your own memory and reflection. So, jump right in there!

Learning Unit 6 Overview

Individual Zoom Office hours will be available if you need help.

Module Schedule

The first date in the schedule below is the official Monday start date of each Module. The second date is the end of the two-week module. Except for Module 1, all modules open on the Saturday before the official start date to give you some additional weekend time to work if you choose to do so. The links will take you to the modules area. Because this is a brand new course, I may adjust the module content areas to meet the two-week schedule as we go along. If anything changes, I will let you know!

Learning Unit 1: Orientation & Defining Your Teaching Practice--Start Here 1/31-2/13
Learning Unit 2: Basic Online Teaching Tools: 2/12-2/27
Learning Unit 3: DE Background and Regulations & New DE Configurations: 2/26-3/13
Learning Unit 4: Engaging Your Students through Asynchronous Online Learning: 3/12-3/27
Learning Unit 5: Interaction & Community: 3/26-4/10
Learning Unit 6: How People Learn 4/9-5/1 (Spring Break and Holidays are part of this three-week sequence.)
Learning Unit 7: Becoming an Equity Minded Educator: 5/2-5/15
Learning Unit 8: Online Essentials & Revisiting Teaching Practice: 5/14-5/27

Teaching Resources

Source Image, "Essential" from Unsplash