Module 8 Overview
Introduction
This week, we will examine the competencies required for balancing technical and pedagogical requirements in digital courses. Creating a facilitation strategy that keeps students curious, focused, and productive is essential as you develop your learning community. To this end, we review topics related to facilitating your online course and supporting students including options for assessing student progress and performance.
Please keep in mind that your job shifts from content creator and developer to a course instructor/facilitator as your course begins. As you will see, there is increased student interaction and engagement with course content, activities, and assessments over what occurs in a typical in-person environment.
Topics covered in this module...
- Facilitating Learning Community
- Preparing for your Students
- Strategies to Support Students During Your Online Course
- Monitoring Student Progress and Performance
- Students of Concern & Academically At-Risk Students
Learning Objectives
By the end of this module, you will be able to:
- Explore strategies for facilitating digital learning courses.
- Incorporate course-specific and institutional-specific requirements (e.g., late policy, extra credit, participation.) to develop a course orientation module.
- Devise a course facilitation plan for an online course.
- Identify the steps and strategies to prepare a digital learning course for student participation.
- Apply strategies that enhance instructor presence and humanize the digital learning experience.
- Explore and select course facilitation strategies to promote engagement and communication collaboration in the digital learning environment.
- Explore and select course facilitation strategies to promote, inclusion, respect, and proper digital learning etiquette.
- Explore and select strategies for assessing student progress, identify and address existing learning gaps and provide feedback to improve learner performance.
- Explore and select strategies that encourage student support (e.g. share a list of appropriate support services).
- Implement strategies for managing time during the facilitation of a digital course.
- Identify the steps and strategies to conclude and wrap up a digital learning course.
- Build a Student Orientation Module.
Activities & Assignments
You will complete the following activities during this module:
- Review the Facilitating an Online Course section of the Course Design Planner (optional)
- Complete and submit a Planning Worksheet: Course Facilitation Plan
- Begin to prepare your course for students by completing and submitting the BYCA: Course Customization & Student Orientation
- Revise content modules as needed and continue to prepare for the Virtual Showcase Gallery and Final Course Design Review
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