Technology & Instruction for UNEX

We have two free courses for instructors set up for the summer. An additional online course, Producing Media for your Online Course, will be added later and will start in early September. I'll post the details once that is set up. 111MSCC80  Teaching Online with Moodle , online, 4 weeks, starts August 9th (was previously starting July 27th) – this class is open to anyone who might be interested in teaching online, not just UCR Extension instructors; no previous experience required and they don't need to be scheduled to teach. If you have had inquiries from people interested in teaching online, this would be a good option for them. The goal for this class is to attract more potential online instructors as well as to prepare current instructors. Final project is to produce a proposal for an online course. We had 36 people enroll in this class during the Spring although most did not complete it.  111MSCC81  Creating and Teaching Your Moodle Course , face-to-face, 3 m...

Faculty Focus has a great short article today --   Five Common Pitfalls of Online Course Design by Elizabeth St. Germain. All 5 pitfalls are on target, but I see #1 -- " Upload your course materials, then call it a day" -- all the time. I think this is the most common mistake made by first-time online instructors who don't spend any time understanding the differences between face-to-face and online teaching. The thing that typically goes along with this design mistake is to fail to replace the face-to-face time with anything at all. In the worst case, the course assignments and readings are retained and narrator-less presentations are uploaded to the course, and that's it.  All of these pitfalls can be avoided by participating in our free online courses for online instructors.