Effective Time Management Strategies to

Teach Online Without Being Up at 3 AM

or Providing 24/7 Support (Webinar)

Florence Martin

Instructional Systems Technology

UNC Charlotte

About Me

Florence Martin, Ph.D.Associate Professor & Program DirectorInstructional Systems Technology

Florence.Martin@uncc.edu

Research

Online Learning Environments

• Elearning

• Synchronous Online Learning

• Mobile Learning

• Learning Analytics

Teaching

• EIST 6150 – Design, Development and Evaluation of online learning systems

• EIST 6130 – Instructional Multimedia Development

• EIST 6110 – Instructional Design

UNCC IST Program

• M.Ed. in Instructional Systems Technology (36 hours)

• Graduate Certificate in Instructional Systems Technology (18

hours)

http://edld.uncc.edu/programs/instructional-systems-technology-program

Online Learning and Teaching

Concentration

This Online Learning and Teaching

concentration is for those interested

in the development and management

of online learning systems.

EIST 6100 Foundations of Instructional Systems Technology

EIST 6110 Instructional Design

EIST 6120 Current Trends in Instructional System Technology

EIST 6130 Instructional Multimedia Development

EIST 6150 Design, Development, and Evaluation of Online Learning Systems

EIST 6101 Learning Principles in Instructional Systems Technology

http://edld.uncc.edu/sites/edld.uncc.edu/files/media/OLT_ISTFlyer.pdf

Poll

• About how many hours per week do you

spend teaching “an” online course?

A. Less than 5 hours

B. Between 5 and 10 hours

C. Between 10 and 15 hours

D. Between 15 and 20 hours

E. More than 20 hours

Teaching Online Concerns

• What are your workload concerns with

teaching online?

Time sinks of teaching online

• Establishing instructor presence

• Individualized, timely feedback

• Creating video-based content and

interactions

Time Management Strategies

1. Course Organization

2. Course Orientation

3. Record and Re-use

4. Open Educational Resources

5. Responding to student questions

6. Facilitating discussions

7. Grading/Feedback

8. Automated LMS Features

9. Keep notes – Continually Improve

10. Blocking out time

1 Course Organization

Course Organization

• Keep your course design simple and

consistent which avoids student

questions/confusion

User-friendly design

Easy to Navigate

Customized Navigation Menu

Consistent Modules

2 Course Orientation

Course Orientation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9F39i9dRcc&feature=youtu.be

Getting Started Quiz to test course

policies

Response Times provided in

Syllabus

Clear and Interactive Syllabus

3 Record and Re-Use

Instructor generated material

Recording Videos

• Do not include dates/assignment specifics

in recording

• Focus on the content

• Choose the right tool to record

Tools to record

• Camtasia

• Jing

• Screen Cast O Matic

4 Open Educational Resources

OER Commons

Re-usable Learning Objects

• http://edutechwiki.unige.ch/en/Learning_o

bjects_repositories

5 Responding to Student

Questions

Being efficient

• Contact the Instructor Forum

• Q&A

• Screencast if you want to show how to do

something

• If question is already answered, refer them

to those questions

Multiple Ways for students to

contact you

Provide more than one way for students to contact you with order of preference

Forums

Contact the Instructor Forum

Announcements Forum

Webex or Office Hours

uncc.webex.com/meet/username

6 Facilitating Discussions

Student facilitated discussions

Create groups

• Create groups if you have more than 10

students

Subject line

• Establish subject line for posts

7 Grading/Feedback

Set grading schedule

• Grade within 7 days if you have weekly

modules or before when the next

assignment/project is submitted

• Be prompt in grading when assignments

build on each other

Clear Rubrics

Using the same criteria to grade and provide feedback

Use Technology for

Feedback/Grading

Work smarter, not harder at grading

• Keep comments and announcements from previous semesters.

• Customize feedback comments for each student/course section;

• However there is no reason to type out everything again if some comments remain the same from student to student or section to section. Adapt or reuse them next semester.

Peer Feedback

• Establish peer feedback activities using

rubrics or checklists to provide an

opportunity for students to revise and

improve assignments

High Enrollment Courses

• High-enrollment courses especially may

need to use fewer personalized grading

assignments

Mid-semester & End-of semester feedback

8 Automated LMS Features

Scheduling Announcements

LMS Rubrics

9 Keep Notes

Keep notes – continually improve

• Record notes each week about revisions

for the next semester.

• Some fixes like broken links can be done

on the fly during the current run, but

others, like the rewriting of a section, need

to wait until the end of the semester.

• At the end of the semester, reflect on the

notes and adjust as needed.

Notepad

Contact the Instructor Forum Q’s

External Review

• Have other faculty review and provide

feedback

10 Blocking out time

Blocking out time

• 40% Teaching

• 40% Research

• 20% Service

• 2 days/week for teaching

UNCC IST Program

• M.Ed. in Instructional Systems Technology (36 hours)

• Graduate Certificate in Instructional Systems Technology (18

hours)

http://edld.uncc.edu/programs/instructional-systems-technology-program

Online Learning and Teaching

Concentration

This Online Learning and Teaching

concentration is for those interested

in the development and management

of online learning systems.

EIST 6100 Foundations of Instructional Systems Technology

EIST 6110 Instructional Design

EIST 6120 Current Trends in Instructional System Technology

EIST 6130 Instructional Multimedia Development

EIST 6150 Design, Development, and Evaluation of Online Learning Systems

EIST 6101 Learning Principles in Instructional Systems Technology

http://edld.uncc.edu/sites/edld.uncc.edu/files/media/OLT_ISTFlyer.pdf