Instructional Design for Online Teaching and Learning
Web-based (Moodle) course - Register to work-at-your-own-pace anytime 30 CE from the MLA
Topic 1. Introduction and Overview of the Course
Lecture and Required Readings: Introduction and Overview of the Course
Learning Activity: (Survey)
Topic 2. Introduction to Instructional Design
Lecture and Required Readings: Introduction to Instructional Design
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Topic 3. Learning Theories and Learning Styles
Lecture and Required Readings: Learning Theories and Learning Styles
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Topic 4. Instructional Strategies
Lecture and Required Readings: Instructional Strategies
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Topic 5. Planning for Instructional Materials/Learning Objects and Formative Evaluation
Lecture and Required Readings: Planning for Instructional Materials/Learning Objects and Formative Evaluation
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Topic 6. Summation of the Instructional Design Plan: Pulling it all Together
Lecture and Required Readings: Summation of the Instructional Design Plan
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You may choose to register for Implementing Online Teaching and Learning:
Using Moodle and Other Web 2.0 Features to implement your course/workshop/tutorial on the Moodle LMS (or an LMS of your choice that you have access to).
Overview and Learning Objectives
In this six topic, Web-based hands-on course the intellectual focus will be on using good instructional design and Web page design principles for designing effective online teaching and learning. This work will result in a completed instructional design plan for an instructional unit - course/workshop/tutorial - of the participants choice for a learner group of their choice with teacher guidance and approval.
The course is hosted on a Moodle server. Participants will receive and/or be able to download printable versions of the learning activities etc. to use during the course session as well.
Diane Kovacs has been teaching this course in various versions for 15 years. The original version was a three Topics three weeks long hands-on course "Designing and Implementing Web-based Training in Libraries" developed for the Cleveland Area Metropolitan Libraries in 1998.
Learning Objectives
- Participants will be able to use clear instructional design process to design distance education/online teaching and learning units.
- Participants will be able to evaluate distance education/Web-based tutorials, courses, or workshops in terms of their design and relevance.
- Participants will end the session with a completed instructional design plan for a simple tutorial, short course, or workshop of their choice (with teacher guidance and approval).
Librarians and other information specialists who are interested in learning the instructional design process, reviewing distance education/Web-based/online teaching and learning tools and options.
Some experience with online learning is assumed. (e.g., have taken a course online, completed a Web-based tutorial as a learner). No online teaching experience is expected, but Web-based teachers will find the course a good review and reinforcement experience.
Participants should know how to use e-mail and a current standard Web Browser. Level of instruction is intermediate
Register anytime to work-at-your-own-pace with a Web teacher through e-mail, chat and Moodle. $275 - 30 CE from the MLA
Diane K. Kovacs is President of Kovacs Consulting - Internet &Web Training.She has been a Web Teacher and Consultant for nearly 20 years. She designs and teaches Web-based and in-person courses for organizations and individuals including UIUC GSLIS LEEP, SJSU SLIS, ALAEditions, ACRL, MLA, and others. Diane has been designing and teaching Web-based and in-person MLA Approved CE Courses since 2001
Her most recent book is 7 Steps to Effective Online Teaching forthcoming from ALA Editions. The Kovacs Guide to Electronic Library Collection Development: Essential Core Subject Collections, Selection Criteria, and Guidelines, 2nd Edition was published in 2009 by Neal-Schuman Publishers. The Virtual Reference Handbook: Interview and Information Delivery Techniques for the Chat and E-Mail Environments Neal-Schuman Publishers (2007) was published concurrently in the United Kingdom by Facet Publishers (2007).
Diane Kovacs is the 2000 recipient of the "Documents to the People" award from the Government Documents Roundtable of the American Library Association. She was also the recipient of the Apple Corporation Library's, Internet Citizen Award for 1992 and was the University of Illinois Graduate School of Library and Information Science Alumni Association's first recipient of the Leadership Award in 1996.
Diane received an M.S. in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois in 1989 and an M.Ed. in Instructional Technology from Kent State University in 1993. She has a B.A. in Anthropology also from the University of Illinois, 1985.
