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Conquering the content : a step-by-step guide to online course design
- Author
- Smith, Robin M., 1962-
- Title
- Conquering the content : a step-by-step guide to online course design / Robin M. Smith.
- Format
- Book
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Published
- San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, c2008.
- Description
- xv, 153 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- URL
- <Table of contents only> http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy0903/2007050956.html <Publisher description> http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0806/2007050956-d.html <Contributor biographical information> http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0810/2007050956-b.html
- Uniform series
- Jossey-Bass guides to online teaching and learning.
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 147-148) and index.
- Contents
-
- 1. Design with learning in mind
- Learning in the twenty-first century
- Advantages to having a course online
- How Web-based learning is the same as classroom learning
- Learning styles
- Think "learning," not "teaching"
- The online student's environment
- How Web-based learning is different from classroom learning
- Action steps
- 2. Design with the future in mind
- It's okay to be uncomfortable
- The future will be here sooner than you think
- Creating the outline
- The learning guide
- The modules
- Sile systems
- Managing course structure
- Action steps
- 3. Design with assessment in mind
- Self-assessment
- Authentic assessments
- Quizzes
- Teaching for the long term
- Questions for first-time Web-based instructors
- Action steps
- 4. Design with organization in mind
- Learning guide development
- Elements of the learning guide
- Prioritizing in creating your course
- Resource gathering
- Web-based aspects of the course
- Choosing the most important topics
- Instructional guidance
- Actions steps
- 5. Design with content in mind
- Introduction to chunking
- How the brain processes information
- Chunking for a text-based lecture or content presentation
- Bridges
- Active learning opportunities
- Prioritizing course development and revisions
- Evaluating the effectiveness of chunking
- Action steps
- 6. Design with process in mind
- Best practices
- Design using someone else's mind
- Action step
- 7. Design with navigation in mind
- Student access to module components
- Continuous improvement
- Documenting for revisions
- Link rot
- Where to go from here
- Action steps
- What you have conquered!
- Appendix A: Forms
- Appendix B: Action steps
- Appendix C: American Association for Higher Education's nine principles of good practice for assessing student learning
- Appendix D: Design and development tasks.
- Subject headings
- Web-based instruction--Design. College teaching.
- ISBN
- 9780787994426 (pbk.) 0787994421 (pbk.)