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Scope and Methods of Online Instruction at the University of Central Florida

Scope and Methods of Online Instruction at the University of Central Florida. Pavel Zemliansky, Ph.D Associate Professor and Director of Writing Across the Curriculum Department of Writing and Rhetoric UCF. Quick Facts About Online@UCF.

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Scope and Methods of Online Instruction at the University of Central Florida

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  1. Scope and Methods of Online Instruction at the University of Central Florida Pavel Zemliansky, Ph.D Associate Professor and Director of Writing Across the Curriculum Department of Writing and Rhetoric UCF

  2. Quick Facts About Online@UCF • Approximately 1/3 of all credit hours at UCF are offered online • 7 Undergraduate Programs are Online • 6 Graduate Programs (MA,MS) are online • 6 Graduate Certificates are Online

  3. Theoretical Foundations for Online Learning • Social Presence • Interactivity • Collaboration and communication

  4. Social presence is the perception by members of an online learning environment that they are present at the site of learning not only virtually but also physically Social Presence

  5. Interactivity • User-to-system • User-to-document • User-to-User (Warnick, 2012)

  6. Communication People communicating with other people, not with objects, such as websites and online applications

  7. Reduced channels of communication result in reduced sense of social presence

  8. Main Types of Online Interaction

  9. Technologies for Online Instruction • Learning Management Systems (LMS) • Synchronous communication software • Social Media

  10. Leading Learning Management Systems • Blackboard • Desire-to-Learn • Angel • Canvas

  11. Synchronous and Social Media • Adobe Connect • Skype • Twitter • Google Docs • Etherpad

  12. Establishing interactivity and improved communication in an online Canvas-based course

  13. The communication strategies teachers choose will depend on your subject, your class, and your teaching style

  14. Some Available Communication Strategies • Establish multiple student-to-student and student-to-teacher channels of communication • Require and encourage students to speak to one another • Use Frequently Asked Questions forums • Have students collaborate on projects when appropriate

  15. Canvas’s Communication Channels • Discussion forums • Messages (inbox) • Comments on assignments (text and multimedia) • Announcements and front page “stream” • Chat • Google Docs and Etherpad • Facebook and Twitter integration • Conferences

  16. An Online Graduate Course in Proposal Writing

  17. Collaborative Projects Using Google Docs

  18. Discussions

  19. First-Year Writing

  20. Assignment Discussion through Messages

  21. Comments on an Assignment Submitted by a Student

  22. Questions and Discussion Pavel Zemliansky pzemliansky@ucf.edu

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