IS is launching two additional online courses in Blackboard, and they’re both platform agnostic. Faculty and staff may self-enroll in either or both of them using the links below.
—Getting Started with Online Course Design: This course introduces participants to best practices for online course design, and it provides an Online Course Planning Document to use while planning and designing online courses. A course facilitator will review submitted design documents and provide feedback to course participants. This course focuses on course design and is not platform-specific; therefore, it is relevant to all users, no matter the system participants plan to use for delivering courses.
https://bb.owu.edu/webapps/blackboard/execute/enrollCourse?context=INMENU&course_id=_25335_1
—Getting Started with Online Course Facilitation: Learn how to effectively facilitate in an online or blended classroom. This course focuses on building facilitation skills in four areas: technical, managerial, social, and pedagogical. This course also covers the skillset required of an effective online facilitator; learning styles and teaching strategies to address them; effective communication in a primarily text-based medium; interactive course components and various instructional strategies; management and organization in the online classroom; and assessment and feedback strategies.
https://bb.owu.edu/webapps/blackboard/execute/enrollCourse?context=INMENU&course_id=_25336_1
Each course is designed to take approximately 8–10 hours to complete, while allowing you to work in a self-paced environment. Facilitated by Instructional Technologist David Soliday and Public Services Librarian Liz Lang, they will be wrapping up by the end of July.
OWU Sponsoring Organization/Office: Information Services.
Contact: David Soliday at helpdesk@owu.edu