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5 Ways To Enhance Any Online Course

5 Ways To Enhance Any Online Course. Moodle Offers A Lot. 1. Anticipate Questions. 2. Be Interactive. 3. Encourage Explicitly. 4. Use Projects. 5. Make It Real. Links. Moodle Offers A Lot. (1/4). Moodle offers educators and curriculum developers many tools to address course objectives.

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5 Ways To Enhance Any Online Course

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  1. 5 Ways To Enhance Any Online Course Moodle Offers A Lot. 1. Anticipate Questions. 2. Be Interactive. 3. Encourage Explicitly. 4. Use Projects. 5. Make It Real. Links “5 Easy Ways To Enhance Any Online Course, Pedagogically” Moodle Moot, New Orleans, November 5, 2013

  2. Moodle Offers A Lot. (1/4) Moodle offers educators and curriculum developers many tools to address course objectives. “5 Easy Ways To Enhance Any Online Course, Pedagogically” Moodle Moot, New Orleans, November 5, 2013

  3. Moodle Offers A Lot. (2/4) By applying tools with a few key strategies, any online instructor or curriculum developer can significantly enhance an online course by “operationally defining” key expectations. “5 Easy Ways To Enhance Any Online Course, Pedagogically” Moodle Moot, New Orleans, November 5, 2013

  4. Moodle Offers A Lot. (3/4) Pedagogically, students develop a better understanding of expectations through orientation, discussions, encouragement, and relevant applications of new knowledge. “5 Easy Ways To Enhance Any Online Course, Pedagogically” Moodle Moot, New Orleans, November 5, 2013

  5. Moodle Offers A Lot. (4/4) • Adopting a few key strategies can dramatically change the climate of learning in an online course by clarifying these questions: • What should I do? • Am I doing it right? • What should I do next? • How can I do it better? “5 Easy Ways To Enhance Any Online Course, Pedagogically” Moodle Moot, New Orleans, November 5, 2013

  6. 1. Anticipate Questions. • Use a “Moodle Book” to create a course orientation. Use it as an assignment. • Include a Q/A section. Don’t assume anything. Be explicit. • Describe class policies clearly. • Clearly indicate the support you provide. • How should students contact you? • If it’s “important”, state that clearly. • Describe consequences explicitly. • If you have a philosophy, describe it! “5 Easy Ways To Enhance Any Online Course, Pedagogically” Moodle Moot, New Orleans, November 5, 2013

  7. 1. Anticipate Questions. • Use a “Moodle Book” to create a course orientation. Use it as an assignment. • Include a Q/A section. Don’t assume anything. Be explicit. • Describe class policies clearly. • Clearly indicate the support you provide. • How should students contact you? • If it’s “important”, state that clearly. • Describe consequences explicitly. • If you have a philosophy, describe it! “5 Easy Ways To Enhance Any Online Course, Pedagogically” Moodle Moot, New Orleans, November 5, 2013

  8. 1. Anticipate Questions. • Use a “Moodle Book” to create a course orientation. Use it as an assignment. • Include a Q/A section. Don’t assume anything. Be explicit. • Describe class policies clearly. • Clearly indicate the support you provide. • How should students contact you? • If it’s “important”, state that clearly. • Describe consequences explicitly. • If you have a philosophy, describe it! “5 Easy Ways To Enhance Any Online Course, Pedagogically” Moodle Moot, New Orleans, November 5, 2013

  9. 1. Anticipate Questions. • Use a “Moodle Book” to create a course orientation. Use it as an assignment. • Include a Q/A section. Don’t assume anything. Be explicit. • Describe class policies clearly. • Clearly indicate the support you provide. • How should students contact you? • If it’s “important”, state that clearly. • Describe consequences explicitly. • If you have a philosophy, describe it! “5 Easy Ways To Enhance Any Online Course, Pedagogically” Moodle Moot, New Orleans, November 5, 2013

  10. 1. Anticipate Questions. • Use a “Moodle Book” to create a course orientation. Use it as an assignment. • Include a Q/A section. Don’t assume anything. Be explicit. • Describe class policies clearly. • Clearly indicate the support you provide. • How should students contact you? • If it’s “important”, state that clearly. • Describe consequences explicitly. • If you have a philosophy, describe it! “5 Easy Ways To Enhance Any Online Course, Pedagogically” Moodle Moot, New Orleans, November 5, 2013

  11. 1. Anticipate Questions. • Use a “Moodle Book” to create a course orientation. Use it as an assignment. • Include a Q/A section. Don’t assume anything. Be explicit. • Describe class policies clearly. • Clearly indicate the support you provide. • How should students contact you? • If it’s “important”, state that clearly. • Describe consequences explicitly. • If you have a philosophy, describe it! “5 Easy Ways To Enhance Any Online Course, Pedagogically” Moodle Moot, New Orleans, November 5, 2013

  12. 1. Anticipate Questions. • Use a “Moodle Book” to create a course orientation. Use it as an assignment. • Include a Q/A section. Don’t assume anything. Be explicit. • Describe class policies clearly. • Clearly indicate the support you provide. • How should students contact you? • If it’s “important”, state that clearly. • Describe consequences explicitly. • If you have a philosophy, describe it! “5 Easy Ways To Enhance Any Online Course, Pedagogically” Moodle Moot, New Orleans, November 5, 2013

  13. 1. Anticipate Questions. • Use a “Moodle Book” to create a course orientation. Use it as an assignment. • Include a Q/A section. Don’t assume anything. Be explicit. • Describe class policies clearly. • Clearly indicate the support you provide. • How should students contact you? • If it’s “important”, state that clearly. • Describe consequences explicitly. • If you have a philosophy, describe it! “5 Easy Ways To Enhance Any Online Course, Pedagogically” Moodle Moot, New Orleans, November 5, 2013

  14. 2. Be Interactive. • Use forums. • Create a 10% course grade category for participation. Describe the minimum number of posts required to meet your expectations. • Make the forum(s) the nexus of instruction. • Ask students to moderate forums. • Save important passages from key posts in a public page on the main page. “5 Easy Ways To Enhance Any Online Course, Pedagogically” Moodle Moot, New Orleans, November 5, 2013

  15. 2. Be Interactive. • Use forums. • Create a 10% course grade category for participation. Describe the minimum number of posts required to meet your expectations. • Make the forum(s) the nexus of instruction. • Ask students to moderate forums. • Save important passages from key posts in a public page on the main page. “5 Easy Ways To Enhance Any Online Course, Pedagogically” Moodle Moot, New Orleans, November 5, 2013

  16. 2. Be Interactive. • Use forums. • Create a 10% course grade category for participation. Describe the minimum number of posts required to meet your expectations. • Make the forum(s) the nexus of instruction. • Ask students to moderate forums. • Save important passages from key posts in a public page on the main page. “5 Easy Ways To Enhance Any Online Course, Pedagogically” Moodle Moot, New Orleans, November 5, 2013

  17. 2. Be Interactive. • Use forums. • Create a 10% course grade category for participation. Describe the minimum number of posts required to meet your expectations. • Make the forum(s) the nexus of instruction. • Ask students to moderate forums. • Save important passages from key posts in a public page on the main page. “5 Easy Ways To Enhance Any Online Course, Pedagogically” Moodle Moot, New Orleans, November 5, 2013

  18. 2. Be Interactive. • Use forums. • Create a 10% course grade category for participation. Describe the minimum number of posts required to meet your expectations. • Make the forum(s) the nexus of instruction. • Ask students to moderate forums. • Save important passages from key posts in a public page on the main page. “5 Easy Ways To Enhance Any Online Course, Pedagogically” Moodle Moot, New Orleans, November 5, 2013

  19. 3. Encourage Explicitly. • Openly acknowledge and reward great posts with “professional points”. • Students love public recognition. • Award a professional point for evidence of a “professional disposition”. • 1st dozen = 1 percentage point increase • 2nd dozen = 2 percentage points increase • 3rd dozen = 3 percentage points increase • Reward every “exemplar” with a professional point. “5 Easy Ways To Enhance Any Online Course, Pedagogically” Moodle Moot, New Orleans, November 5, 2013

  20. 3. Encourage Explicitly. • Openly acknowledge and reward great posts with “professional points”. • Students love public recognition. • Award a professional point for evidence of a “professional disposition”. • 1st dozen = 1 percentage point increase • 2nd dozen = 2 percentage points increase • 3rd dozen = 3 percentage points increase • Reward every “exemplar” with a professional point. “5 Easy Ways To Enhance Any Online Course, Pedagogically” Moodle Moot, New Orleans, November 5, 2013

  21. 3. Encourage Explicitly. • Openly acknowledge and reward great posts with “professional points”. • Students love public recognition. • Award a professional point for evidence of a “professional disposition”. • 1st dozen = 1 percentage point increase • 2nd dozen = 2 percentage points increase • 3rd dozen = 3 percentage points increase • Reward every “exemplar” with a professional point. “5 Easy Ways To Enhance Any Online Course, Pedagogically” Moodle Moot, New Orleans, November 5, 2013

  22. 3. Encourage Explicitly. • Openly acknowledge and reward great posts with “professional points”. • Students love public recognition. • Award a professional point for evidence of a “professional disposition”. • 1st dozen = 1 percentage point increase • 2nd dozen = 2 percentage points increase • 3rd dozen = 3 percentage points increase • Reward every “exemplar” with a professional point. “5 Easy Ways To Enhance Any Online Course, Pedagogically” Moodle Moot, New Orleans, November 5, 2013

  23. 3. Encourage Explicitly. • Openly acknowledge and reward great posts with “professional points”. • Students love public recognition. • Award a professional point for evidence of a “professional disposition”. • 1st dozen = 1 percentage point increase • 2nd dozen = 2 percentage points increase • 3rd dozen = 3 percentage points increase • Reward every “exemplar” with a professional point. “5 Easy Ways To Enhance Any Online Course, Pedagogically” Moodle Moot, New Orleans, November 5, 2013

  24. 3. Encourage Explicitly. • Openly acknowledge and reward great posts with “professional points”. • Students love public recognition. • Award a professional point for evidence of a “professional disposition”. • 1st dozen = 1 percentage point increase • 2nd dozen = 2 percentage points increase • 3rd dozen = 3 percentage points increase • Reward every “exemplar” with a professional point. “5 Easy Ways To Enhance Any Online Course, Pedagogically” Moodle Moot, New Orleans, November 5, 2013

  25. 3. Encourage Explicitly. • Openly acknowledge and reward great posts with “professional points”. • Students love public recognition. • Award a professional point for evidence of a “professional disposition”. • 1st dozen = 1 percentage point increase • 2nd dozen = 2 percentage points increase • 3rd dozen = 3 percentage points increase • Reward every “exemplar” with a professional point. “5 Easy Ways To Enhance Any Online Course, Pedagogically” Moodle Moot, New Orleans, November 5, 2013

  26. 4. Use Projects. • Challenging projects provide context, relevance, and application. • Students propose their own projects… and then complete them. • Encourage students to support each other in the forums. (Use professional points!) • Allow assignments and exams to be “open everything”. • Should students help each other? Yes. “5 Easy Ways To Enhance Any Online Course, Pedagogically” Moodle Moot, New Orleans, November 5, 2013

  27. 4. Use Projects. • Challenging projects provide context, relevance, and application. • Students propose their own projects… and then complete them. • Encourage students to support each other in the forums. (Use professional points!) • Allow assignments and exams to be “open everything”. • Should students help each other? Yes. “5 Easy Ways To Enhance Any Online Course, Pedagogically” Moodle Moot, New Orleans, November 5, 2013

  28. 4. Use Projects. • Challenging projects provide context, relevance, and application. • Students propose their own projects… and then complete them. • Encourage students to support each other in the forums. (Use professional points!) • Allow assignments and exams to be “open everything”. • Should students help each other? Yes. “5 Easy Ways To Enhance Any Online Course, Pedagogically” Moodle Moot, New Orleans, November 5, 2013

  29. 4. Use Projects. • Challenging projects provide context, relevance, and application. • Students propose their own projects… and then complete them. • Encourage students to support each other in the forums. (Use professional points!) • Allow assignments and exams to be “open everything”. • Should students help each other? Yes. “5 Easy Ways To Enhance Any Online Course, Pedagogically” Moodle Moot, New Orleans, November 5, 2013

  30. 4. Use Projects. • Challenging projects provide context, relevance, and application. • Students propose their own projects… and then complete them. • Encourage students to support each other in the forums. (Use professional points!) • Allow assignments and exams to be “open everything”. • Should students help each other? Yes. “5 Easy Ways To Enhance Any Online Course, Pedagogically” Moodle Moot, New Orleans, November 5, 2013

  31. 5. Make It Real. • Do we encourage sharing and collaboration in the workplace? Yes. • Should we encourage sharing and collaboration in an online course? Yes. • Do we really need to use multiple choice items for assessment? No. • Provide students with a professional point who voluntarily submit an assignment for “public critique”. • Provide and share “public exemplars”. “5 Easy Ways To Enhance Any Online Course, Pedagogically” Moodle Moot, New Orleans, November 5, 2013

  32. 5. Make It Real. • Do we encourage sharing and collaboration in the workplace? Yes. • Should we encourage sharing and collaboration in an online course? Yes. • Do we really need to use multiple choice items for assessment? No. • Provide students with a professional point who voluntarily submit an assignment for “public critique”. • Provide and share “public exemplars”. “5 Easy Ways To Enhance Any Online Course, Pedagogically” Moodle Moot, New Orleans, November 5, 2013

  33. 5. Make It Real. • Do we encourage sharing and collaboration in the workplace? Yes. • Should we encourage sharing and collaboration in an online course? Yes. • Do we really need to use multiple choice items for assessment? No. • Provide students with a professional point who voluntarily submit an assignment for “public critique”. • Provide and share “public exemplars”. “5 Easy Ways To Enhance Any Online Course, Pedagogically” Moodle Moot, New Orleans, November 5, 2013

  34. 5. Make It Real. • Do we encourage sharing and collaboration in the workplace? Yes. • Should we encourage sharing and collaboration in an online course? Yes. • Do we really need to use multiple choice items for assessment? No. • Provide students with a professional point who voluntarily submit an assignment for “public critique”. • Provide and share “public exemplars”. “5 Easy Ways To Enhance Any Online Course, Pedagogically” Moodle Moot, New Orleans, November 5, 2013

  35. 5. Make It Real. • Do we encourage sharing and collaboration in the workplace? Yes. • Should we encourage sharing and collaboration in an online course? Yes. • Do we really need to use multiple choice items for assessment? No. • Provide students with a professional point who voluntarily submit an assignment for “public critique”. • Provide and share “public exemplars”. “5 Easy Ways To Enhance Any Online Course, Pedagogically” Moodle Moot, New Orleans, November 5, 2013

  36. Links http://ulm.edu/~beutner/moot/mb.pptx “5 Easy Ways To Enhance Any Online Course, Pedagogically” Moodle Moot, New Orleans, November 5, 2013

  37. Session Handout/Notes:http://ulm.edu/~beutner/moot/mb.pptx “5 Easy Ways To Enhance Any Online Course, Pedagogically” Moodle Moot, New Orleans, November 5, 2013

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