Instructional Skills Workshop Online
Topic outline
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A resource for instructors who are or wish to teach online. The materials from this course are openly shared resources from Royal Roads University http://oer.royalroads.ca/moodle/ and are used in the Instructional Skills Workshop Online. Look for it's offering each year at BC Campus. http://bccampus.ca/calendar/
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Welcome to Instructional Skills Workshop Online
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What is community?
Why/how is it important to learning?
How is community created and maintained?
Unit 1 by explores how building community enables success in online learning.
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Adult learners often have similar desires: courses that are challenging, collaborative, and constructivist; and learning activities that are relevant, applicable, and meaningful.
Yet the strategies and processes they prefer to use for learning may differ from individual to individual.
In this unit you'll explore some key ideas that apply to our work with adult learners online, including what is often referred to as "learning styles" and "adult learning" theory.
The least important thing is becoming an expert on any of these theories. The most important thing is understanding the main IDEAS, and being able to USE them as tools/supports for your thinking and problem solving when you are making instructional designs and decisions.
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Collaborative learning, especially in teams, has the potential to greatly enrich the learning experience. The richness and success of team learning hinges on group dynamics.
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In this final unit, we'll be looking back and looking forward, revisiting key topics and themes with a mind to the future and applying what we've learned.
This includes:
- considering the topic and engaging in reflective practice - what that looks like, what tools we might use to be reflective practitioners
- re-visiting some key themes of the course from our (now) more informed and experienced perspective: facilitation strategies, online presence, and online participation
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