Friday, February 15, 2008

Instructional Design Tips for Online Courses

California State University, Chico has developed some good resource materials for faculty who are developing online courses.

http://www.csuchico.edu/tlp/resources/rubric/rubric.pdf provides a series of rubrics to show Baseline, Effective, and Exemplary tactics/processes/information to include in course designs.

A checklist document which provides easy "check-offs" of design considerations is at:
http://www.csuchico.edu/tlp/resources/rubric/instructionalDesignTips.pdf .

The University of Louisville has best practices advice for designing online learning courses at the site http://delphi.louisville.edu/faculty/ids/ - which starts off the list of tips with "Start Slow" because your students may not have taken online courses before.

Virginia Tech has a great primer for new designers at their page http://www.edtech.vt.edu/edtech/id/index.html - including explanations of some popular teaching techniques in distance education (Audio Tutorial, Goal-Based Scenarios, Case-Based Teaching, Guided Design, Cooperative Learning, etc.).

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