demystified, creating engaging online courses
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Magic design ingredients – what makes an engaging online course?
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Course design – a dark art?
Mike Highfield
Blackboard International Consulting• EMEA• Moodlerooms• Onsite Training Delivery• Site and Course Design and
Development• Implementation Consulting• Clients include: o Higher Edo Corporateo Governmento Not for profit
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Description
• Designing engaging and effective online courses is a challenge faced by institutions of all types, shapes and sizes. This training session aims to demystify and simplify the process of online course design in the context of the Moodlerooms platform and informed by the latest trends in pedagogy and learning technology. Whilst this is a 'hands off' training session having access to your Moodle would be of benefit so BYOD!
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Poll 1
• What "sector" are you from?
• What experience have you got of designing online courses?
• What are you hoping to learn form today's session?
Moodlerooms
MOOC
Defining online learning environments
Distance Learning
Blended learning
Face to face
learning
Flipped classroom
Web enhanced
Self-paced
Enhance
Extend
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Poll 2
• What is the key component of an engaging online course? - QUIZ
• What, in your view, is the key component of engaging online course?
Moodlerooms
…Not yet…Herding cats (subject matter experts)
Engaging Online Courses
subject matter expert knowledge and expertise
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Not yet – instructional design models
• Course design hits the buffers because of stakeholder types– ID– SME (e.g. a lecturer in HE or corporate Learning and Development staff)– Developer (often same as ID)
– SME and ID talk a different language. ID = ADDIE and massive list of other models. SME’s really cannot be bothered!
The pillars of online course design
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Totally Excellent Online Course• Watch• Listen• Read
• Explore• Search• Find• Discover
• Discuss• Share• Interact
• Answer• Present• Critique• Demonstrate
• Think• Consider
CORE
KNOWLEDGE
ORIGINALCONTENT
ENHANCE & EXTEND
CURATED ?
Course design – activity planning
Delivered Browse Collaborate Assess Reflect
Unit/Week/Topic 1
Unit/Week/Topic 2
Unit/Week/Topic 3
Unit/Week/Topic 4
Video – 5 minutes
Journal articleWeb site
Web site
Quiz Summative test
Peer review assignment
Original article
Podcast
Lecture excerpt
Research question
Journal article
Personal journal
Group blog
Course blog
Learning outcomes -1
Learning outcomes -2
Learning outcomes -3
Learning outcomes -4
Wiki
Discussion
Discussion
Discussion
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Poll 3
• Arguably, video is the best medium for "delivered content". What's you're view on this and what barriers are there for delivering video content?
Moodlerooms
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• Watch• Listen• Read
• Explore• Search• Find• Discover
• Discuss• Share• Interact
• Answer• Present• Critique• Demonstrate
• Think• Consider
Delivered content – video everywhere!
Source: Cisco
Delivered content – breaking barriers
Video camera
Video editing software
Codec?
I know, I’ll record a quick ten minute
video. I won’t have to explain this for
the 100th time!
Microphone
Hosting?
Updates Time and cost
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• Watch• Listen• Read
• Explore• Search• Find• Discover
• Discuss• Share• Interact
• Answer• Present• Critique• Demonstrate
• Think• Consider
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Poll 4
• What are the biggest barriers you experience when incorporating third party learning content into your online courses?
Moodlerooms
Browse content – making the most of external resources
External resources
OER
Creative Commons
xpLor
Paid for content
Search engines
IP and Copyright
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Poll – Quality Control
• Does your institution/organisation use some kind of quality control process?
Moodlerooms
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• Watch• Listen• Read
• Explore• Search• Find• Discover
• Discuss• Share• Interact
• Answer• Present• Critique• Demonstrate
• Think• Consider
Collaboration – Moodlerooms’ Advanced Forum
• Keep up with what’s important to you with the ability to subscribe to only certain discussions within a forum.
• Sort posts by the post date, creation date, first name, last name, or the number of replies. Then control the order of that sort in either ascending or descending fashion.
• Mark posts that enhance and extend the discussion as “Substantive.”
• Bookmark posts that you need to return to later, or that you may want to draw other students attention to in an instructor reply.
• Collect sensitive data from course participants by enabling anonymous posting, while retaining the ability to grade those posts.
• Grade Advanced forums with Advanced grading methods, like core Moodle Rubrics, or Joule Checklists.
• Use the Joule Grader to quickly and easily grade Advanced forums.
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• Explore• Search• Find• Discover
• Discuss• Share• Interact
• Answer• Present• Critique• Demonstrate
• Think• Consider
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• Answer• Present• Critique• Demonstrate
• Think• Consider
Reflective learning
• What are the most important themes you have learned this week?
• What aspect of this week did you find difficult?
• What did you find most interesting? And why?
• Was there something that you learned this week that prompted you to do your own research?
• Are there any web sites or other online resource that you found particularly useful in furthering your knowledge and understanding?
SOURCE: HEA
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Poll (final)
• What (if anything!) is the most useful thing you've learned from today's session?
Moodlerooms
Magic?