Design and Facilitation of E-Learning Courses

Introduction to the course (Welcome video clip)

2 Mins Welcome clip

30 Mins Introduction to course (outline)

Week 1: Foundations of Learning

Outcomes

Study Materials

Activity

Assessment

Able to

·   define e-learning;

·   Understand the learning and Instructions;&

·   Describe the learning theories.

·    Theory into Practice Database, Available at http://tip.psychology.org/index.html

·    Encyclopedia of Educational Technology, Available at http://coe.sdsu.edu/eet/

·    Designing Online Learning by Sanjaya Mishra. Published by the Commonwealth of Learning. Available at http://www.col.org/SiteCollectionDocuments/KS2001-02_online.pdf

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Week 2: Foundations of Learning (cont..)

·   Behaviourism

·   Schools of Thoughts: Cognitivism

·   Schools of Thoughts:  Constructivism

·   Schools of Thoughts: Connectivism

·    Instructional Design Course of Master of Arts (Distance Education) of STRIDE, IGNOU.

·    Instructional Technology:WikiBooks. Available at http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Instructional_Technology

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Week 3: Instructional Design Models and Theories

·   Overview of Instructional Design

·   Cognitive Load Theory

·   Cognitive Flexibility Theory

Identifying a course and target audience (with need assessment)

Finalising the course and the target audience and their level

Week 4: Instructional Design Models and Theories(cont..)

·   4C-ID Model

·   ASSURE Model

·   ADDIE Model

·   Dick and Carey Model

·   Collaborative Learning

Identifying the instructional design model for the selected course

finalising the instructional design model for the selected course

Week 5: Instructional Design Models and Theories (cont..)

·   Collaborative Learning

·   Scenario-Based Learning

·   Problem-Based Learning

·   Top Down and Bottom up models in curriculum Development

Designing the learning environment for the selected course

finalising the learning environment for the selected course

Week 6: Instructional Design Processes

·   Blooms Taxonomy

·   Gagne’s Nine principles of ID

·   Learners and Learning Styles

• Should we be using Learning Styles? What research has to say to practice. Available at http://www.lsda.org.uk/files/PDF/1540.pdf

Designing learning outcome for the selected course

finalising learning outcome for the selected course

Week 7: Instructional Design Processes(cont..)

·   Vygotsky: Language of thought

·   Banner-Memory and learning

·   Learning Objectives

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Week 8: Computer Mediated Communication

·   Concept Mapping

·   Tools for Concept Mapping

·   Technology Analysis for e-Learning

www.freemind .com

Designing concept map for the selected course

finalisingconcept map for the selected course

Week 9: Collaborative Learning

·   Synchronous Online Learning and Tools for Synchronous Learning

·   Asynchronous Online Learning and Tools for Asynchronous Learning

• 144 Tips for Synchronous E-Learning: Strategy+ Research, Ed by Bill Brandon. Published by the eLearning Guild in 2008.  Available at  http://www.elearningguild.com/content.cfm?selection=doc.1025

Critically analysis the

Collaborative learning

Assignment

Week 10: Collaborative Learning(cont..)

·   Instructional support for collaborative learning

·   Evaluation of Learning

·   Structuring the online course

• Curtis, D.D., & Lawson, M.J. (2001). Exploring Collborative Online Learning, Journal of Asynchronous Leanring Networks, 5 (1), Available at http://www.aln.org/publications/jaln/v5n1/pdf/v5n1_curtis.pdf
• Smith, B.L., &McGreagor, J.T. What is Collborative Learning? Available at http://learningcommons.evergreen.edu/pdf/collab.pdf

Structuring the selected course

finalisingthe structure of the selected course

Week 11: Activities for Online Learning

·   Online Tutoring: Skills and Competencies of Online Tutors

·   e-Moderating, The Five Stage Model for Online moderation

·   R2D2 (Read, Reflect, Display, Do) Model

• Online Tutoring eBook. Ed by Carol A. Higgison. Available at http://web.archive.org/web/20071212221227/otis.scotcit.ac.uk/onlinebook/
• Nachindila, B. (2007). The role of tutors in teaching of Online English for Business programmes in South Africa: A Case study,  MERLOT Journal of Online Teaching and Learning, 3 (4), Available at

http://jolt.merlot.org/documents/nchindila.pdf

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Week 12: Activities for Online Learning (cont..)

·   Assessment and Evaluation

·   Case studies

• E-Moderating (2004) Ed 2. by Gilly Salmon. Published by Kogan Page: London.
• E-tivities (2002) by Gilly Salmon. Published by Kogan Page: London.
• Empowering Online Learning (2008) by Curtis J. Bonk and Ke Zhang. Published by Jossey Bass: San Francisco.
• E-Learning Groups and Communities by David McConnell, (2006). OU Press/ McGraw Hill Education: Berkshire.

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