TRANSFORMING YOUR ONLINE COURSE FOR SEMESTERS

 

Are you interested in creating a fully transformed online course?  Creating/adapting an interesting, interactive, and pedagogically-sound online course?  How about the scholarship surrounding online teaching?  If so, then please join us as we focus on the process of converting your online course to the new semester system.

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Purpose:

A transformed course is not just taking your current online course and popping it up for semester use.  We will examine the process of transforming your course by using different rubrics for online course creation, crafting a strategy for new course design, rethinking your learning outcomes, and tying them in to your assessments.  It is a chance to rethink what you want your students to learn/do during a 15-week semester. 

Activities:

• Discuss the process of switching from quarters to semesters

• Use the QOLT (Quality Online Learning and Teaching) or the Quality Matters rubric for creating your course

• Implement strategies for creating an interactive and interesting online course

• Work on building your transformed online course

Outcomes:

• Create a fully transformed syllabus for your online course

• Create a fully transformed online course at the end of our FLC

• Produce an online resource of online pedagogical materials for the University

 

Required Meeting Times:

FLC Orientation Jan 8, 12-2

Final Meeting/symposium:  Friday, June 3, 2016, 12-2

Plus ten other Friday meetings: 10 am-12pm

Jan. 15 and 29

Feb. 12 and 26

March 4 and 11

April 8 and 22

May 13 and 27

 

Meeting Topics and Activities

 

Jan. 8  Meet and Greet; personal goals for this FLC; the possible agenda for all of our meetings;

 

Jan. 15 Discuss the process of switching from quarters to semesters.  What is transformation?  Hopefully our new course shells will be created (by Bernie)—if not, then hopefully next time!  I’ll have all of us enrolled in each other’s course.  Go over the rubrics.  I’ll create a website on Wix—see http://ke2518.wix.com/transform for a possible template) with our agenda and the material we are creating.

 

Jan 29 Go over the link between alignment and assessment link; strategies for doing this.  Bring syllabus (if you have one) of the course you want to transform.  We will begin the process (having a fully transformed syllabus is a requirement for the FLC).

 

Feb. 12 Work on Standard 1 in QM  and QOLT 1 in our new courses; share how we have fulfilled these.

 

Feb 26 Work on Standard 2 in QM and QOLT 2 in our new courses; share how we have fulfilled these.

 

March 4 Work on Standard 3 in QM in our new courses; share how we have fulfilled these.

 

March 11 Work on Standard 4 in QM and QOLT 3 in our new courses; share how we have fulfilled these.

 

April 8 Work on Standard 5 in QM and QOLT 4 and 5 in our new courses; share how we have fulfilled these.

 

April 22 Work on Standard 6 in QM and QOLT 6 in our new courses; share how we have fulfilled these.

 

May 13 Work on Standard 7 in QM and QOLT 7 in our new courses; share how we have fulfilled these; work on the Final Meeting/Symposium product (which could be our website).

 

May 27 Work on Standard 8 in QM and QOLT 8 and 9 in our new courses and wrap up (you should now have a fully transformed online course) ; share how we have fulfilled these.