Starting Out with Online Teaching

Folks, I wanted to share with you a book recommendation if you are starting out with online teaching. I read and reviewed "Building Online Learning Communities" by Palloff and Pratt and found it very helpful in learning what are more successful models of online teaching. You can find the review in the June 2009 issue of "Spark" available online here.

USG Online Resource links

USG Share - Learning Object Repository
http://www.alt.usg.edu/learn/learning.phtml

Facilitating Learning Online
Course offered online to USG faculty focusing on online teaching pedagogy. If anyone at your institution has previously completed the course, the materials are available to you. Contact for Vista administrator.

Adoptable Templates
A list of available courses for download with course descriptions: http://ecore.usg.edu/courses/description.php

Contact your Vista administrator to request a template.

USG Faculty and Staff Resources Website
http://aladdin.gcsu.edu:16080/~facultyresources/

USG Faculty Affairs Website
http://www.usg.edu/faculty_affairs/

USG iTunes U site
http://itunes.usg.edu/

Blackboard Exemplary Courses
http://kb.blackboard.com/display/EXEMPLARY/Exemplary+Course+Program

Goals for the Learning Community

These are a list of some of the goals we hope to discuss.

1. Presuasive argument for using online instruction.
2. Online labs?
3. Platforms/technical complications (e.g., Wimba)
4. Academic Dishonesty
5. Resources

Posting Privileges

If you are a member of this WCG STEM Institute Learning Community and would like posting privileges on this blog, please email Jon Ernstberger to be granted that access.

Be prepared to use an existing Google, LiveJournal, WordPress, TypePad, AIM or OpenID to log in. If you have none of these, you will need to create a login.

Links

This blog post is to create a central area where use hyperlinks can be posted that are beneficial to this learning community.

Introduction

The goal of this learning community is generate an scenario (with an atmosphere that is conducive to networking) where STEM faculty can discuss the use of a variety of online platforms as supplements to classroom instruction and as tools for effective instruction in virtual courses.

Facilitator: Ginger Durham - Project Manager for Instructional Development, University System of Georgia

Panelists:

• Butch Atwood - Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor of Chemistry, UGA
• Amanda Rees - Assistant Professor of Geography, CSU
• Zo Webster - Associate Professor of Physics, CSU

Feel free to leave your comments.