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Hello and welcome to the online short course!
As one of my favorite anthropology professors used to say, "We are inculture as a fish in water."
When you think about it, this kind of describes your venture into teaching online for the first time.
You're an experienced faculty member
You've been doing what you do long enough that you might not even think about it anymore -- at least
not to the extent that you did when you first began teaching.
As you enter this new "culture" of teaching online, you'll find that you'll have to re-think a lot of what you've become so used to doing in the traditional classroom.
We've designed this course around many of the questions and concerns of faculty that we've worked with over the years:
How should I organize the course?
How will it "look" online?
How can I present my course content? (After all I won't be lecturing.)
How will I engage my students as I've always done in my "traditional" classes?
How will I know they're "getting it" when they're not in front of me?
How will I interact with students individually and as a class?
How can I establish a supportive learning community?
How can I receive my student assignments and return them with my feedback?
And finally, how will I assess my students' work and maintain the same integrity that I'm used to?
You'll work with a course that you're planning to teach online.
We'll begin by asking you to describe the course goals and then have you draft one learning module.
We then ask you to reconsider your course syllabus and policies and plan for that important first week with your students.
Finally, we ask you to think about how best to organize your course site in Blackboard.
Along the way we include a series of assignments
using many of the same tools that you're likely to ask your students to use --
just to get you comfortable using Blackboard.
You'll get feedback from your colleagues and have the opportunity to give them feedback as well.
Again, welcome and we look forward to working with you!