TEACHING ONLINE@vishalsachdev

UIUC PHD Student Workshop

Feb 2015

Agenda• What is Teaching? (5-10 Minutes)• Is teaching Online Different? (10 minutes)• How do we get started? (20 minutes)

• Checklists• Best Practices• Frameworks

• How would you do it? (20 minutes)• Tips/Tools• Wrap up /Questions?

What is teaching?

What is Teaching?

What is teaching?

Is Teaching Online Different?

How do we get started?• Review Best Practices

• The 7 principles of Good (Teaching) Practice

• A Framework • To guide your thinking

• Checklists • To get things done

7 Principles• Student – Faculty Contact• Peer Learning• Active Learning• Prompt Feedback• Time on Task• High Expectations• Encourage Diversity in Learning

Community of Inquiry (Garrison et al. 1999)

Social Presence• The sense where the learner feels part of the community,

• by demonstrating willingness to engage in communication exchanges, 

• perceives learners and instructor to be real people,

• and is able to project him or herself  in the online environment confidently.

Cognitive Presence• Is the extent to which learners are able to construct and confirm meaning through sustained reflection and discourse

Teaching Presence• design, facilitation, and direction of cognitive and social processes • Design and Organization• Facilitating Discourse• Direct Instruction

How Would you do it – 15 minutes

• Break up into teams• Pick one dimension from the COI framework

• List down the objectives and then activities you would do, and decide on measurement/assessment you would plan.

Checklists

Organization and Design

Content and Management

Communication and Interaction Assessment

and Evaluation

Tips• Be an Online Student, before you teach

• http://www.ion.uillinois.edu/• https://www.class-central.com/

• Online Courses take more time to design than F2F courses( possibly double)

• Online students expect more timely interactions

• You have a lot more data to improve your courses

Tools• Self and Peer Evaluation tools`• Collaborative Question Creation: Peerwise• Active Learning

• Students make videos, online presentations, apps

• Team Formation/Peer Assessment• CATME.org

• Social Media Use • Twitter Curation and Highlights

Final Thought: Peer Learning

Resources• http://www.ion.uillinois.edu/• https://elearnilbus.wordpress.com/• https://coi.athabascau.ca/• http://voicethread.com/• http://www.zaption.com/• http://peerwise.cs.auckland.ac.nz/• https://www.class-central.com/

Questions??• Keep in touch • Slides at • @vishalsachdev

• http://www.linkedin.com/in/vishalsachdev

• vishal@illinois.edu