Distance Learning and Online Course Development

1999 Course Technology Spring Forum

  1. What are the essentials in developing an-online course
    1. Mileposts for developing On-line courses (http://www.oocities.org/~drmaryg/StartupMileposts.html)
      1. Getting ready
      2. Designing the course
      3. Developing the course
    2. Critical components of courses: (http://www.oocities.org/~drmaryg/corstrct.htm)
      1. Structure
      2. Communication
      3. Management
  2. What types of resources come from the publisher such as these from the Shelly and Cashman Series book  Discovering Computers that can be very helpful with permission to us on the web?
    1. Electronic Instructor's Manual can, , be used to provide content to focus the learning objectives for on-line students.  (http://vcollege.lansing.cc.mi.us/cisb100/chapter01.htm)
    2. Figures on CD-ROM (http://vcollege.lansing.cc.mi.us/cisb100/chapter01.htm)
    3. Course test manager can be used to put the test bank in your own test application (telnet://Alpha.lansing.cc.mi.us) or be used with instructor provided web based support programs that include test bank pool such as in this Blackboard demo (http://course.com/distancelearning/blackboard/default.cfm)
    4. Web companion can provide additional learning as is done with the links below the objectives in this course (http://vcollege.lansing.cc.mi.us/cisb100/chapter01.htm) or primary learning as is shown is this course http://academic.kellogg.cc.mi.us/herbrandsonc/bio201/Nervous%20System.htm
    5. Course Presenter has PowerPoint presentations that can quickly be converted using the outline format as in (http://vcollege.lansing.cc.mi.us/cisb100/chap01.htm) or just converting to html as is shown in this course:  http://academic.kellogg.cc.mi.us/robertsonp/buad131/WK1_SUM2000/index.html
    6. Glossary can be used to give dynamic links for study as in this example (http://vcollege.lansing.cc.mi.us/cisb100/chap01.htm) or embedded in the instruction as in this example http://vcollege.lansing.cc.mi.us/cisb200/private/class06.htm#FunctCPU 
    7. Summary and review (http://vcollege.lansing.cc.mi.us/cisb100/chapter01.htm)

Mary Garrett, Ph.D., CCP; Part-time Professor, Lansing Community College. mailto:mgarrett@lansing.cc.mi.us Web site: http://www.oocities.org/~drmaryg/