Adding Interactivity to Online Lectures with VoiceThread
If you're looking for a way to add interactivity to your online course, consider using VoiceThread to create multimedia presentations that enable students to post comments or questions directly within the presentation. John Orlando, program director for the online Master of Science in Business Continuity Management and Master of Science in Information Assurance programs at Norwich University, uses VoiceThread in his courses and has found that it encourages students to interact, improves a sense of presence, and helps students understand nuances within subject matter.
Online Teaching Fundamentals: Making Online PowerPoint Content Engaging: Why You Should Add Narration
When you use PowerPoint as a presentation tool (in presentations or when you teach a face-to-face course), your slides support what you, the presenter, are saying. All the guidelines about using PowerPoint in this way explain that text on PowerPoint slides should be minimized and truncated. You want listeners to listen to you rather than read the slides.
Practical Advice for Going from Face to Face to Online
Developing an online course based on an existing face-to-face course requires more than learning how to use the technology and loading the material into the learning management system because, as Catherine Nameth, education outreach coordinator at the University of California-Los Angeles, says, "not everything will transfer directly from the face-to-face environment to the online environment." This transition requires the instructor to rethink and reconfigure the material and anticipate students' needs.
Teaching Online with Errol: Personality DOES Matter in Teaching Online!
Online instructors are hired because they are judged as having the right combination of education, teaching experience, content expertise, and professional accomplishments. But once an instructor is in the classroom, these abilities and achievements can go only so far. There also must be a constant injection of good-natured, passionate-to-teach, "I'm really glad to be here" personality.
Tips from the Pros: Four Questions to Ask when Moving Course Online
Catherine Nameth, education outreach coordinator at the University of California-Los Angeles, recommends asking the following questions to guide the process of taking an existing face-to-face course online.
What Are We Doing This Week? A Case for Weekly Lesson Overviews
One of the biggest issues we face with initial student satisfaction in online courses is course organization and navigability. Students want consistency between course environments within the learning management system. One of my self-inflicted charges as a new director was to foster a climate that embraced structural consistency within online course shells. Balancing student expectations with the desire of many faculty members who want the freedom to structure their courses without being handcuffed by a template can be a challenge. Two early endeavors to address consistency included devising a beginning of semester checklist and training opportunities that emulated the checklist and addressed national standards.
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