5. Creating A Distance
Education Course
Let’s assume the use of a
course management
system (CMS)
– Blackboard
– Moodle
– Sakai
– Etc.
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6. CMS Purpose
Provides the course foundation,
skeleton, and scaffolding
– It contains the course
– Provides for content pages
– Audio selections
– Video selections
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7. Online Course Designer
Basic Objectives
• Make course easy for students to
follow
• Minimize student “request for
assistance” email
• Keep “teaching time” close to
the time you invest in a f2f course
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Editor's Notes
A distance ed course could also be constructed from scratch by designing a web site to be a distance education course.Also, while this seminar is based around learning how to construct a distance ed course within a CMS, it does not discount the use of video conferencing techniques as part of a CMS based course. However, implementing video conferencing, and even simple in-house created videos has its problems (poor acting, poor screen control, jump cuts, student inclusion, etc)
Might add that there is also the video conference model but we are not discussing that today as it has its own unique characteristics.
These are practical objectives for the course designer/teacher. They do not concern themselves with the academic course objectives. That is something else. We use the identified objectives to facilitate academic instruction; to prevent instructor time being wasted in assisting students with CMS design problems.
