Course Information

Course Description



This online 6-week seminar prepares you to teach in an online learning environment with focus on students’ active learning experience. You engage in the online course design process by aligning your student learning goals with online activities and assessment practices. You select tools that appropriately support intended student learning goals. You work with a course that you plan to offer online or an existing online course that you plan to refine. The course is offered in Blackboard and designed to provide one model for online course development and presentation.



The course has been designed for faculty who are new or recent to teaching online and faculty who are preparing to teach online.



Rationale



To teach effectively online, faculty need to ground their course in knowledge of student learning and sound pedagogy, including assessment, and select technology tools accordingly. Additionally, taking the seminar as an online learner simulates the student’s experience and helps faculty consider the learner’s online experience as they develop their online course(s).



Course Objectives



Upon completion of this course, students should be able to:



Apply frameworks for student learning to the online learning environment and to the online instructional design process.

· Purposefully integrate core principles of online learner-centered pedagogies into a current course.

· Describe the key technology tools available for structuring the online classroom, and assess their appropriateness for achieving the objectives of the course.

· Construct one aspect of an online course (e.g. rubric, assignment) and receive colleague and instructor feedback for further course enhancement.

· Reflect on your learning experiences as an online student and use them to inform your approach as faculty to online course design and instruction.


Course Structure



This course will be taught online asynchronously in Blackboard with opportunities to discuss the weekly content. Readings and activities, and assignments within the module will take place online asynchronously with due dates.



This course will be taught online in Blackboard with two virtual meetings (Zoom meeting link: https://villanova.zoom.us/j/6189391561):

· Mid-term Check-in: 5-6:15 p.m. via Zoom, March 10, 2021

· Final Presentation: 5-7 p.m. via Zoom, April 14, 2021



This course will be structured in weekly modules beginning on Thursday of each week. Readings and activities within the module will take place from Thursday to the following Wednesday. All work within the module must be completed by the close of each module and prior to the start of the next module.



Textbook & Course Materials



There are no required texts for this online seminar. All reading materials are provided with a link to download or read online.