Module 3
Structuring the Online Experience and Managing Expectations
1. Overview & Objectives
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Video Overview of Module 3
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Topics
- Creating effective online-course syllabi
- Creating orientation, technical-support, interaction, communication, and other guiding resources, and incorporating them to online courses
- Structuring the online student experience: establishing frequent graded milestones and a clear sense of course progression
- Managing instructor time and student expectations and satisfaction in the online learning environment
Objectives
- Compose an online-course syllabus and recognize the components that make it effective and may distinguish it from a face-to-face course syllabus
- Compose a course-orientation document (e.g. a Start Here page) and recognize its relationship to the course syllabus
- Compose technical-support, interaction, communication, and other guiding resources and recognize when/where/how to present them to your online students
- Recognize the importance of creating and clearly communicating to your online students a milestone-driven course progression
- Recognize how accomplishing the previous objectives supports more effective and efficient use of your time and higher student understanding of and satisfaction with an online course; consult the Quality Matters standards for course overview and learner engagement and support
- Participate in synchronous and asynchronous online interactions, in low- and high-stakes contexts
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