I’m in a course now designed for working with online courses. It’s called Instruction Delivery Systems, and it’s taught by Dr. Trudy Abramson. Besides giving piles of useful advice during our one-week “Institutes,” she is very good at drawing out the best in us while we conduct our research and work online. We have an extensive reading bibliography from which to choose (in addition to the research we do on our own), so I’ll post some of the work I’m doing that I think might be interesting.
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Instruction Delivery Systems @ Nova Southeastern University
Tuesday, March 1st, 2005Teaching Online Lessons
Thursday, February 17th, 2005I’m in my final semester of coursework at Nova Southeastern University. One of the courses is called Instruction Delivery Systems. It’s an exciting course, and I’m glad that I waited until the end of my coursework to take it. I think I’m going to get its full value this way. Anyway, each of the 20 students in the course needs to teach a three-week mini-course to 3-6 students. We have to prepare our content and our objectives and teach everything on WebCT (a very user-unfriendly environment). I am teaching in the first session, and there are five students in the course. I’m teaching a mini-course on writing academic summaries which I thought could be useful for doctoral students. So far things are going well, and the students are providing excellent feedback and making great suggestions. Problems I’ve encountered are the students did not understand an assignment I gave because I did not explain it fully. This is one huge difference between a completely online course and a hybrid course (one that combines class time with online time). With a hybrid course, I have the advantage of being able to explain and demonstrate what I’m asking students to do. I’ll write more on the topic when I get there…
