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Online Learning: An Overview for New York Institute of Technology
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Description
This
instructor-led, eight-week, fully-online course is an overview of
online learning and teaching and introduces the key elements of an
online program. Faculty will actively discuss topics related to online
learning and collaborate with peers in projects that analyze and assess
online course design elements and technologies.
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Audience
Faculty and staff from who want to acquire pedagogical and technical skills needed to successfully teach courses online.
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Topics
Participants will explore in depth the following topics:
- The online student’s role and responsibilities in the virtual classroom.
- The facilitator’s role in the virtual classroom, and characteristics of a successful online instructor.
- Strategies to promote communication and collaboration in the virtual classroom.
- Curriculum conversion for the online environment.
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Outline
Module 1 - Online education compared and contrasted to traditional teaching
and the student's role in the online classroom.
Module 2 - The instructor's role in the online classroom and course management
issues.
Module 3 - Alternatives to the online lecture and collaboration strategies.
Module 4 - Tying it all together.
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Goals
- Give prospective online instructors an opportunity to
experience the virtual classroom from a student’s perspective.
- Model facilitator skills and technologies that
participants will use in their own online courses.
- Develop a functional understanding of the nature and
importance of online learning in the context of contemporary
educational offerings.
- Provide participants with
an overview of the key elements of an online course.
- Discuss the online student’s role and responsibilities in the
virtual classroom.
- Discuss the facilitator's role
in the virtual classroom and identify characteristics of a successful
online instructor.
- Consider strategies to promote
communication and collaboration in the virtual classroom.
- Share ideas about how curriculum can be converted to adapt to
the online environment.
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In threaded discussions via an asynchronous online discussion forum,
participants will:
- Identify skills and responsibilities students need
to succeed in the virtual classroom.
- Identify
skills and responsibilities facilitators need to succeed in the virtual
classroom.
- Identify the characteristics of
curriculum used in the online paradigm as contrasted with curriculum
used in the traditional classroom.
In a collaborative team project, participants will:
- Critique the appropriateness of specific course
design elements and technologies with respect to curriculum and course
objectives in selected online courses.
In a final course project, participants will:
- Propose instructional design strategies they will
use to promote communication and collaborative learning in their own
online courses.
- Synthesize the topics covered in
this course by converting a segment of their onground curriculum for
delivery in the online environment.
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The course is eight weeks in length and requires an online orientation.
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Your registration for this class is subject to approval by NYIT Center for Teaching and Learning.
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- Complete the online course orientation prior to the start of
the course.
- Read the instructor's lesson
introductions and assigned articles from the Web.
- Answer weekly discussion questions related to the assigned
Web articles.
- Engage in positive and meaningful
dialog with classmates concerning the course subject matter.
- In each Module, critique a web-based resource
about online learning or develop a supplemental question that furthers
the class discussion.
- Write a summary of the key
items covered each week and how they apply to your field of teaching.
- Critique one online course in a collaborative
assignment.
- Complete a final project in which
you adapt one segment of your on-ground curriculum to the online
environment.
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The course has a modular structure in which each unit
is individually assessed, but successive units build on previous
information. The course pedagogy is based on principles of
collaborative and constructivist learning and and makes use of group
participation. Content is in the form of active participation in
asynchronous discussion and synchronous chat, direct email, postings of
materials, Web resources, and instructor notes. Student participation
in discussion forums to comment on the ideas and work of others is a
major component of the course. Students will acquire more in-depth
information on some topics through links to outside sources.
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This is an intensive course requiring about 8-10 hours
a week. The time commitment will vary depending the individual's input,
needs, and personal study habits. Students are required to log on to
the course a minimum of 3 times a week.
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Continuing
Education Credit (CEU Credit)
8 Continuing education
units (CEU credit) are available for this course.
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A charge is incurred
for anyone enrolled in an Advanced Online Seminar, although there is a discount
for ION members. The tuition is determined by the
number of contact hours and online discussion requirements for the course.
To view the tuition schedule
for a specific section of this course, visit the Schedule and
click on the link for that section (e.g. TM0551).
Taking a course for Graduate Credit through the University of Illinois
at Springfield (UIS):
All of our courses except the Advanced Online Seminars may be taken for graduate
courses through UIS. You do not pay twice if you choose this
route. You pay only the fees associated with UIS enrollment. If you choose
to enroll through UIS, you need to follow the instructions.
You do not register through this site.
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