Conquering the Content : A Step-by-Step Guide to Online Course Design

by Robin M. Smith (University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences )

• ISBN13: 9780470596524
• ISBN10: 047059652X
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2009-09-01
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass

Summary

As the sixth volume of the Jossey-Bass Guides to Online Teaching and Learning series, Conquering the Content provides a highly-practical blue-print for course development and content presentation for web-based courses. While providing guidance for incorporating learning theory into online courses, this book primarily furnishes online instructors with the practical templates, learning guides, and sample files to construct and manage their course content.Unlike other books about online instruction that cover theories of teaching and learning, instructional design, or even graphic design this book gives the "how to" of preparing an online course by focusing on content. The much needed step-by-step guidance in this book will result in fully formed courses where high-quality content is the central feature.

Table of Contents

Preface

The Author

Design with Learning in Mind

Learning in the Twenty-First Century

Advantages to Having a Course Online

How Web-based Learning Is the Same as Classroom Learning

Learning Styles

Think "Learning,"Not "Teaching"

The Online Student's Environment

How Web-Based Learning Is Different from Classroom Learning

Action Steps

Design with the Future in Mind It's Okay to Be Uncomfortable

The Future Will Be Here Sooner Than You Think

Creating the Outline

The Learning Guide

The Modules

File Systems

Managing Course Structure

Action Steps

Design with Assessment in Mind

Self-Assessment

Authentic Assessments

Quizzes

Teaching for the Long Term

Questions for First-Time Web-Based Instructors

Action Steps

Design with Organization in Mind

Learning Guide Development

Elements of the Learning Guide

Prioritizing in Creating Your Course

Resource Gathering

Web-Based Aspects of the Course

Choosing the Most Important Topics

Instructional Guidance

Action Steps

Design with Content in Mind

Introduction to Chunking

How the Brain Processes Information

Chunking for a Text-Based Lecture or Content Presentation

Bridges

Active Learning Opportunities

Prioritizing Course Development and Revisions

Evaluating the Effectiveness of Chunking

Action Steps

Design with Process in Mind

Best Practices

Design Using Someone Else's Mind

Action Step

Design with Navigation in Mind

Student Access to Module Components

Continuous Improvement

Documenting for Revisions

Link Rot

Where to Go from Here

Action Steps

What You Have Conquered!

Forms

Action Steps

American Association for Higher Education's Nine

Principles of Good Practice for Assessing Student Learning

Design and Development Tasks

Notes: Ideas for Application

References

Index

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