Effective Online Course Design to Connect to Students

Presentation Objectives
Information related to online learners
Why and How to connect
Tech tools
Application of technology in an online course

Who are we?

Background: SBCC
Teach online since 2005 started with hybrid course development

Why

• Social and cultural aspect to learning
• Online Learners can feel isolated
• Attrition/Retention
• Learning is impacted

Connection

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Student Learning Styles

• Independent
• Dependent
• Competitive
• Collaborative
• Avoidant
• Participative

Community of Inquiry
Social Presence
Cognitive Presence
Teacher Presence

Cognitive

• Making meaning through communication

social Presence

• Communication
• Interaction
• Connection
• ability of learners to project their personal characteristics into the community

Teacher Presence

• Social Interactions via technology enable an instructor/teacher to connect with students
• Building an effective learning experience

Human Presence

Motivation

How

• Build in activities to get to know your student
• Build in activites that your students can see early "success"
• Provide "verbal persuasion"
• Control Content
• Give Feedback often

Communicate

Enthusiasm for the subject

aSynchronous

Technology

• Screen capturing Tech
• Jing
• Camtasia
• Snagit

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More tech

• Voice over Powerpoint
• Haiku Deck
• Adobe Spark
• voice thread
• Skype, Zoom

Course Welcome Video

Immediacy

Pros/Cons

• Low Tech (Adobe Spark)
• Higher Tech (camtasia)

Considerations

• ADA and captioning
• Low tech or high Tech
• Currently available or
• will you create
• Storage
• Length *****
• Making a transcript

Made with Adobe Spark 

Encourage student creations

Student Collaboration
Google Docs
Padlet

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References

• Jing.com
• Techsmith.com
• Padlet.com
• Spark.adobe.com
• Voicethread.com
• Vimeo.com

REferences

• Best Practices for Teaching with Emerging Technologies - Michelle Pacansky-Brock
• Effective Online Teaching - Tina Stavredes

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