Description

This fully online course is targeted toward faculty and adjuncts who are teaching online and need to develop a more full understanding of student services, time management in an online course, tips for interacting with students each week and a variety of resources including library resources, the ITS Help Desk, and more. The person taking this course will have an fully online course developed and ready to implement. If you have taken the Certified Online Instructor course, this is very similiar!

Goals

• determine which campus department/personnel can provide effective support to both themselves and students
• set the required technology codes and activate their course into the Desire2Learn (D2L) learning management system
• create or update the course syllabus, online orientation, course overview and course schedule & assignments documents.
• review the online course structure and compare it to a traditional face-to-face course
• create and send a course welcome email.
• add assignments to the D2L course calendar.
• become proficient with the following D2L components: Classlist, News, Files, Content, Discussions, Quizzes and Calendar.
• become familiar with their role as online facilitator
• become familiar with the importance of effective online communication.
• establish guidelines for interaction with your students.
• articulate a time management plan for their online course.
• recognize techniques to establish a community of learners in a distance education course.
• describe techniques used to maintain a learning community throughout the duration of a distance education course.
• conduct mid-course evaluations to determine if the types and level of interaction are sufficient to meet stated learning outcomes. Interaction revisions are made based upon evaluation data
• conduct end of course evaluations to improve the quality and function of this course. Course content, structure, interaction and support revisions are made based upon evaluation data

Delivery

Fully online session at the beginning of each semester. Participants will be required to log on daily and be prepared to participate at least two times per week.

Instructor

Dr. Vance Burgess works in the UWF Academic Technology Center and is director of the UWF Online Campus. He has taught many undergraduate and graduate courses on the implementation of varying technologies in training and instruction both online and in the classroom. His research priorities are web-based student support and the importance of interaction and interactivity. Vance is married with three semi-grown children. He is a prior Air Force C-130 navigator in the Special Operations Command where he accumulated almost 3000 hours flying special operations, rescue, low-level, airdrop, air refueling, and hurricane hunting missions around the world.

Register

The first module (Sessions 1 & 2) is available upon course entry. After self-paced completion of module 1, students that want to continue with the actively facilitated remainder of the course send an email to me requesting access to modules 2 & 3. I group new students into a min-cohort for the upcoming semester and then add them to a special group in elearning that provides access to the remainder of the course. Contact Vance Burgess (vburgess@uwf.edu) to get enrolled in this course.