Jun 22 2009
You can’t just copy a traditional classroom based course in an online environment.
One thing I learned while setting up the course documents and furthering my outline for my course is reflected in the title above. In any class which involves f2f meetings, the teacher has the ability to micromanage content on a daily basis and cover smaller chunks of content area. Bill Pelz in the example course tours, discussed the difficulty in covering individual chapters of a text in an online course. Personally, I had just done so in a project for another class and was fairly used to doing exactly that in a partially hybrid course. When setting up my online course into modules, I learned, again the hard way, that I would have to combine material that I used to teach as separate units, into one longer module. This is going to impact almost every component of the readings, assignments, discussion questions, and projects, that I currently use in my course.
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brilliant reflection! Love watching your thinking/learning made visible in this post!