Online guide with strategies and technologies for transitioning from face-to-face teaching to online environments.
Strategies is further divided, with an overview for engaging with learning theories, designing for e-learning with the principles of universal design, strategies for building games or gamifying course offerings, and best practices for building community and implementing different technologies.
The technologies section covers: learning environments, learning objects, activities, gaming, and building community. The tools were selected to potentially enhance synchronous teaching, asynchronous teaching or blended classrooms. The focus is on open or freely available tools but whenever a cost is involved it is indicated.
Type of Material:
Collection
Recommended Uses:
Any instructor or aspiring faculty who are transitioning to online could integrate these materials into their lessons. The material is also useful for face-to-face instruction. That is, anyone learning about eLearning in an F2F classroom.
Resources can be used to teach learning theory, programming, gamification and more.
Technical Requirements:
Plug-ins may be required when linking to some of the software and other resources referenced here.
Identify Major Learning Goals:
The site is a guide to help teachers and students succeed in an e-Learning class. The author, who teaches online, has made her materials available here to help teachers and students.
Target Student Population:
Aspiring undergraduate teachers, currently practicing faculty.
Prerequisite Knowledge or Skills:
None. Since this tool is so comprehensive. A desire to learn about educational strategies is all that is required. The site is very user-friendly.
Content Quality
Rating:
Strengths:
The material is well developed and contains educationally significant concepts important for those who wish to teach online. The content is a model for users to help them develop online courses with scope and sequence. The material includes learning theory in addition to strategies and resources to enhance eLearning.
Concerns:
None.
Potential Effectiveness as a Teaching Tool
Rating:
Strengths:
Excellent primer that can be included in lessons for those who want to learn strategies to transition or learn more about online and eLearning. The site can be shared in a face-to-face classroom or online. Working with this material will enable new online teachers to develop strategies to effectively use the technology in their classrooms. A bibliography of resource links is available and all links open in a new window, so the user of these web sites does not have to close the link to return to the eLearning kit's material.
The author updates the references site, which is a plus.
Concerns:
While the site provides comprehensive materials, there is not a how-to guide per se.
Ease of Use for Both Students and Faculty
Rating:
Strengths:
Simple to use. The website navigation is intuitive. No tech support needed to find the appropriate materials. The site is responsive so it can be viewed on many different-sized screens and devices. The material is divided into three accessible sections: 1) Strategies, 2) Technologies, and 3) Bibliography. The site is updated frequently.
Concerns:
None.
Creative Commons:
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