Course Syllabus

Week 1: Meet Each Other

• Read course policies, goals and objectives.
• Learn how you'll get feedback.
• Review technical skills needed to participate in the course.
• Understand where and how to ask questions.
• Learn who your classmates are; start interacting with them and getting to know them.

Week 2: Build Community

• Complete your Blackboard Homepage and add information about yourself.
• Learn about managing your time in the Discussion Board.
• Continue to meet and get to know your colleagues.
• Read and reflect on the importance of building community in a virtual classroom.
• Participate in an online, asynchronous team activity.
• Compose draft outline for your future online course.
• Find your Private Group Space and post to it.

Week 3: Collaborative Learning

• Participate in a small group activity.
• Read and reflect on student collaboration in netcourses.
• Use the Web to search for sites related to a specific subject.
• Give constructive feedback on a colleague's work and gain an appreciation of peer collaboration online.

Week 4: Introduction to Moderating

• Read about online moderating.
• Get hands-on experience moderating a group discussion.
• Collaborate with your peers in small groups.
• Revise outline for your online course.
• Get hands-on experience moderating a group discussion.

Week 5: Group Activities

• Learn about the various ways to utilize student groups in a netcourse.
• Get hands-on experience moderating a group discussion.
• Design a group activity for your online course.
• Give constructive feedback to a colleague on his/her course outline.
• Get hands-on experience moderating a group discussion.

Week 6: Standards and Assessment

• Consider issues related to evaluating students in a netcourse.
• Discuss standards for online courses.
• Review key pedagogical points from.
• Get hands-on experience moderating a group discussion.
• Synthesize your learning.