5 good observations about online course design

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. 


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