Planning
Use the course planning worksheet in conjunction with these steps.
- Create an outline of your course based upon the learning objectives
- How to build an online course (video)
- Note: the video skips briefly at 9:34 due to an internet blip when it was recorded
- Introduction to Backwards Design (video)
- How to build an online course (video)
- Commit to inclusivity, diversity, and accessibility as you assemble and assess your course content
- List the activities/projects/assignments the students will need to complete in order to meet those objectives
- Decide on your policies for how students will engage with you, their peers and the material in Moodle
- Decide how you will run your course and when you will be present online
- For each component of your course, choose how you will deliver that content
- Prepare and gather the content (lectures/media/resources) you will need to provide
- Decide what will be synchronous
- Decide on your grading or evaluation plan
- Write your syllabus based on the outline you created above
Linked above are the most immediately useful or relevant resources. Below are additional resources that might be helpful or provide further detail or specifics.
- Introduction to equity in online teaching (video)
- What is good teaching? (slides adapted from the Eberly Center at Carnegie Mellon)
- Best practices: online pedagogy (Harvard web page)
- Oregon State University’s Canvas site for teaching online (uses Canvas, not Moodle but still has lots of really useful information)
- Delivering high quality instruction online faculty playbook (PDF from Every Learner Everywhere)
- ACM Online Course Design and Pedagogies Workshop (series of videos)
Now go on to Building.
