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Education for a Digital World: Advice, Guidelines, and Effective Practice from Around the Globe
Co-author and one of the editors for a book on e-learning. Lead author for Chapter 1 and contributor for other chapters. The book uses a Creative Commons copyright: CC-BY-SA (share alike with attribution) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0.
UPDATE: The 2nd edition will be published in 2010. I have updated the chapter on emerging technologies in e-learning as well as contributing a case study in another chapter on cultivating communities of practice using the 7 principles of community design in action. I'll post a link to the book after it's been published.
Ten Activities to Consider Before Developing Your First Online Course
Many educators have asked me what they can do to prepare before they formally begin to develop an online course. This handout provides 10 activities for getting a start in online course development.
Five Essential Emails for Online Students
Communication with online students
at the beginning of an online course is critical. Studies have shown that frequent
contact in the first few weeks of an online course helps with student retention
and course success. These five essential emails can help instructors help their online students succeed.
New Online Course Developer Survey
This survey was created as an intake survey to help faculty self-assess their skills, readiness, and concerns in developing an online course. It is also used for program administrators to assess faculty training needs.
Online Course Rubric
A number of years ago I conducted a pilot with faculty who were developing online courses and asked them to use two popular online course rubrics. Faculty found these two rubrics difficult to use. I wanted a solution that would be easier for faculty and course developers to self-assess courses as well as for course evaluators to assess a course. They found this one page document much easier to use. It is a distillation of the two popular rubrics. This "rubric" (it morphed into more of a checklist) was collaboratively created between myself and a City College of San Francisco instructor. I have modified and updated this document since it was implemented at CCSF.
Making Your Online Course Accessible
Information and resources for those who want to make their online content accessible to all their students regardless of disabilities.
Dissertation Excerpt
In this excerpt, the impact and use of Web 2.0 in teaching and learning is discussed. This excerpt is from my dissertation Pedagogical
and Interface Modifications: What Instructors Change After
Teaching Online. The entire document is available as a download from
ProQuest. The excerpt is part of a chapter in the book Education for a Digital World:
Advice, Guidelines, and Effective Practice from Around the Globe, published by The Commonwealth of Learning (COL).
Dissertation
This case study was based on a naturalistic inquiry approach to investigate the modifications instructors made to their online courses after gaining experiential knowledge teaching in an online environment. The goal of this research is to assist novice online course developers in making their development process more efficient and effective.
Listen to an interview (6 minutes 47 seconds) from a conference (June 2007) where I spoke about online course development and design.
The "How-Tos" of OER Commons is a set of learning modules evolving out of the development of OER Commons, a teaching and learning network for free-to-use educational materials from around the world, created and licensed by the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education (ISKME). Course contributors are Lisa Petrides, Amee Godwin, and Cynthia Jimes, and online learning consultant, Patricia Delich. This is an example of a project I designed, wrote, developed, and implemented. How to cite this work.
More materials are available as well as custom-made materials specifically for eLearning.
To find out how we can create custom elearning solutions for you,
contact
Patricia: click to see email address.
"Patricia has a remarkable way of being friendly and at ease
while maintaining a businesslike focus on the job. It is no exaggeration
to say that my work with Patricia has been one of the most fulfilling
and enjoyable activities of my entire career."
- D. Piontkowski,
Mathematics Department Chair