EXAMPLES OF COURSEWORK completed in fulfillment of the E-Learning and Online Teaching Certificate, UW Stout
EDUC 760 E-Learning for Educators
E-Learning for Educators introduces constructivist learning theory and encourages building a student-centered, collaborative, and interactive teaching and learning environment. It helps educators become accustomed to the technology in the online environment and allows for hands-on practice with Web technologies such as Wikispaces, Moodle, and del.icio.us. The course models techniques for engaging the learner. The following link will take you to a discussion thread I created in the course management system "Moodle" to encourage critical thinking.
My Discussion Board
My Delicious Bookmarks
E-Learning and Online Teaching Wiki
EDUC 761 Creating Collaborative Communities in E-Learning
Creating Collaborative Communities in E-Learning emphasizes the importance of social connections in an online environment. The course touches on fundamentals of social constructivism, communities of practice, and puts great importance on learners being able to transfer elements of their personality to create an online presence. Much time is devoted to role-playing in facilitating online discussions. The course also emphasizes the planning phase of creating an online offering. The following link takes you to my action plan for designing with the end in mind.
Designing with the End in Mind
EDUC 762 Assessment in E-Learning
Assessment in E-Learning lets educators experience authentic assessment first-hand. The course familiarizes educators with a variety of web tools for providing feedback in both formative and summative assessment. Principles of constructivist learning, cyber-coaching, and self-assessment all contribute to learning at higher levels of Bloom's Taxonomy. The following link takes you to my Blog created in Assessment in E-Learning.
Blog
EDUC 763 Instructional Design for E-Learning
Instructional Design for E-Learning outlines principles of universal design and various instructional design models that appeal to a variety of learning styles. Online, self-paced and hybrid formats are compared. Time is spent studying the structure of a course we teach or hope to teach, such as syllabus, pre-course welcome, goals and objectives, strategies for communicating, scaffolding and chunking content, etc.
Andragogy vs. Minimalism (J. M. Carroll)
EDUC 764 E-Learning Practicum
The E-Learning Practicum is the capstone course for online educators and is taken after completing the above four courses. The structure of the practicum encourages collaboration and critical thinking through the weekly series of annotations, reflections, and scenarios. The most valuable aspect of the practicum for me was the sense of community formed between the cohort of students moving through the E-Learning series.
Self-Assessment
