Week+2

This week, post a link to an article, resource, or video related to Week 2's topic:

 * Course Design**

Include your name and a summary of your resource to explain its significance.


 * Lisa Tracy :**

Here is a link to a site called Principles of Online Design published by Florida Gulf Coast University. It has click on links to the various topic sections. Within each topic, principles and practices are listed and information is charted out so the reader can scan the left side for a subtopic, and then read the content (explanations, examples), which is further chunked in the right side. It's fairly simple to use and applies the principles of using clear language, chunking, and organizing logically. One design question I have about this one is: why all of the white space on the right? Principles of Online Design

I've gone global this week and share with you the Visual and Pedagogical Design of ELearning Content, from the Centre for Innovation in Education of Romania. The Centre recommends content designers focus on presentation, specifically layout, visual arrangement, illustrations and color. I found the article of great interest because I have found myself depending on ANGEL's designs and I have not customized any of my courses yet. []
 * Brenda Rizor:**

I found this website that offers several different options in Instructional Design especially focused on helping the higher education instructor that is brand new to teaching online. Instructional Design Resource Center This site talks a lot about Second Life which I have never used personally, but have heard of others using in their courses.
 * Beth White:**

** Michael Edwards: ** media type="youtube" key="LZ7kE_eUMuA" height="272" width="337" I found this video that covers a lot of the same ground as our content for the week. Some of you might enjoy this more than reading my Course Design Process. On the downside, the video doesn't really take advantage of being visual. It's mostly a talking head and doesn't show you courses or examples.

[] I like systems that are simple, clean, few steps, etc.; a big advocate of the KISS principle. That said, check out this website. Won't take long and it has some "new perspective" (for me anyway) tips on course design. While the tips are meant for on-line course design, some of them have given me so approaches to reconsider even for my F2F presentations.
 * Dennis Spragg: **

Lynn Franck: [] I found this instructional design handbook located on the internet. It provides us with the step by step guidelines used to create a successful online course. This handbook initially describes and breaks down the online course into basic component parts. It describes the significance of each of these core components. Then it gives an overview of the "how-to" when creating an online syllabus. Next, it offers several options for instructional matrix that can be utilized to create an effective online environment. Suggestions and helpful guidelines are also presented to transition a face to face course into an online environment. Finally, this handbook offers suggestions of appropriate software options that are available to integrate the proper technology into your course. This handbook is some-what lengthy, however I found that it contained a wealth of information concerning the specific "how-to" in online course design. Thanks Lynn

Jessica Dailey: [] I found this website has easy helpful tips. I know that teaching on line and even placing information on line for coruses that are not online take alot of time out of the instructors. Yes these tools are helpful for the students but its time consuming. My course changes quarterly we teach a 4 qouarter program. Every quarter we have to load new information into Angel this take me at least 2 hours. One of the suggestions is taking a syllabus quiz for an olnine course I think that's a GREAT idea. Evne in the classroom in the nursing program we could have them take a Handbook quiz that lays out the law and rule of the program.

Angie Heaton: [] I found this article to be very enlightening. It discusses the loophole generation and what excuses today's online student will utilize to defend the reason for not completing their work. Instead of the dog eating the homework, they will utilize "the system was down". They discuss the profiles of the following online personalities: the excuse maker, the bully, the cheater, and the plagiarizer. Then they suggest ways to eliminate the loopholes by incorporating a course agreement contract and by developing an online behavioral code of conduct. Very interesting. ~Angie

Joel Harris: [] I found this mini course on content preparation. While specifically directed at the Blackboard user, the content is appropriate for any CMS. The one article that really caught my attention was about learner-centered design. The author was stressing the creation of useful menus and organization of related material ("chunking" as Mike said). Very interesting and concise framework to build content.