OLT provides some easy to access resources for Faculty who are new to teaching in distance education. Here are a couple of resources that you can download or print and save for easy reference: Teaching Online10 Teaching Print10
Learners, Instructors and teaching support staff are involved in different activities at each of the stages of a course or program. These stages may break down (simply) as: Getting In Getting Started Getting Through Getting Out When planning a course or program, its helpful to consider the things that learners will be expected to do […]
Image by leighblackall via Flickr Recently, Larry Ragan, Director of Faculty Development for Penn State’s World Campus, was asked “how would you rank the critical competencies for teaching online? Here are the 6 he identified: 1. Teaching and Learning State objectives, expectations, & policies Establish communication rules & group decision-making norms Give prompt, effective feedback […]
I just came across this interesting article in the Journal of Educator’s Online: July 2006 edition: Engaging Learner Attribute Research in Dialogue with Classroom Practice: Predictors of Success in the Accelerated, Online Classroom reported on a sample of online faculty response to the question “What do you see as the five factors most likely to […]
This term, we launched a series of lunchtime seminars online – using Wimba’s Live Classroom.They offer the opportunity for people to access some training and support for WebCT/Vista right from their own desktops! We plan to offer these seminars on an ongoing basis. Check out the list of upcoming topics along with registration details. Want […]
If you aren’t teaching an online course, and don’t plan to in the future, you probably don’t care. If you are, or plan to, this post is for you. Vista is the new learning management system that UBC is moving to over the next year. Some of you may be teaching on Vista already, more […]
First day of the Semester Originally uploaded by PartsnPieces. I was browsing through the CIDER site and happened to come upon this tidbit that I thought may be interesting to some of you. Apparently, Jamie Anderson, from SFU Surrey Library has created an addendum for the APA Manual that provides updates and suggested formats for […]
Weblogs can be used for many purposes. This one is for sharing information relevant to teaching a distance course at UBC. So far, this has kind of been a one way street. But what about you? I’m sure many of you have comments, stories and issues to share with your colleagues, perhaps you’d like to […]
Image: “Work setup” by avdgaag. Courtesy Flickr Perhaps some of you are frantically finishing edits to your online courses in preparation for the fall term.?! As your thoughts turn to your new crop of students, there are a few things you may want to remember when starting off with a new section in an online […]
This August, UBC’s e-Learning Institute is leading 3 hands-on WebCT workshops aimed at helping instructors prepare for the upcoming fall term. Sessions are scheduled for August 28 & 29 and cover the basics of setting up a WebCT course, getting started with quizzes and assessments and promoting community in your online course through the use […]