Instructors who are planning to teach online for the first time are invited to participate in a series of foundational online course design workshops. The workshops integrate different taxonomies and course design models with Quality Matters standards. The goal is to help instructors deliver high quality online learning experiences by developing their own skills and designing their courses to meet or exceed an accepted quality standard. Our model also follows the philosophy of pedagogy first, technology second. Technology is important in course design however it is only used to support the course design not “drive” the course design.
Instructors complete eight modules; which include approval of the course through internal academic governing bodies, creating learning objectives, feedback and assessment for online courses, course structure and finding and using open educational resources, communicating with students online and creating engaging course content.
This session will focus on how to use two different taxonomies to create a quality online course; Bloom and Fink. We will focus on three modules as they relate to Fink and Bloom’s taxonomy: creating learning objectives, online feedback and assessment and course structure. This session will explore how to utilized the “flipped” course design method to execute online modules.
