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Creating Collaborative Communities in E-Learning
EDUC 761 3 semester hours graduate credit
Instructor: Kay Lehmann and Lisa Chamberlin
Concepts, methods and research for creating and facilitating a collaborative online community of practice.
This course is about facilitating and building an e-learning community and is designed for K-12 educators, technical college and community college instructors, university instructors, curriculum consultants, and corporate trainers who want to become highly qualified in facilitating online learning in hybrid or fully online courses.
Improve your time/workload management techniques including organization of email, class environment and time-saving strategies for working with difficult students in the online classroom. Course activities include hands-on practice using asynchronous communication technologies. You will actively facilitate and explore questioning skills, conflict resolution, netiquette, and collaborative learning through problem solving scenarios, simulations, and online discussions.
You will investigate time management strategies and pitfalls to avoid when designing and facilitating online class activities and explore various assessment tools to analyze and evaluate student participation in online discussions.
The class is highly interactive with a significant discussion component. This class is valuable for those interested in a career as an online instructor.
NOTE: This is the fourth in the series of five required courses for individuals pursuing the Graduate Certificate in E-Learning and Online Teaching and is also open as a sincle course for students seeking professional development.
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