OK, here are the week 2 questions with my responses: 1. How do you plan to design your online course to encourage free flow ideas and requests for clarification–discussion forums, email, chatrooms, team activities, other? I generally make use the discussion boards for clarification. I also generally set up a specific discussion board for clarification, [...]
See my previous post to see what my week one response was. Here is what classmate N. responded: I completely agree with you and I do not see why grading participation is so important. Obviously the ultimate goal is to teach the topics covered in a course effectively by enforcing critical thinking. As long as [...]
The book we are using is Teaching online: A practical guide, by Ko and Rossen. Week one had us reading chapters one and two. We then answered the following questions: Question #1: How would you implement online discussions in your course? Question #2: To help students become involved in an online course, what should be [...]
So I’ve been feeling the need to get back to blogging. It’s been tough, though, as I go up for tenure this coming fall, and I’ve been focusing on getting my research published. Actually, I guess I’ve been more “micro-blogging” on FaceBook. But my heart has been here. I know there is a lot being [...]
Cammy Bean is the Manager of Instructional Design for Invision Learning in Southborough, MA. The interview was done for my students in EDTC 5753: Introduction to Instructional Design. In it, Cammy discusses her background, how she came to the instructional design field, what her current day-to-day job as an instructional designer is like, what skills [...]