Prerequisites and Certification

Prerequisites: eL101 and Clark College Employee

Certification: Clark eLearning Professional Certification

Completion of the following workshops:

eL101 Introduction to Canvas
eL201 Online Teaching and Design Strategies
eL210 Effective Use of Discussion Forums
APPQMR (Applying the Quality Matters Rubric)
Official QM Review on one course

Format

This is a 4 week, fully online asynchronous workshop, intentionally modeling online courses, and there are no scheduled Zoom meetings for this workshop. This workshop is not self-paced and there are weekly due dates of Thursday for initial posts and Sunday for reply posts and all other assignments.

The only exception is during Week 1 when we have an early due date of Tuesday for the Orientation assignments. You will receive a Canvas invitation to access the workshop the Friday before the workshop starts if you would like to complete the Orientation assignments early.

Workshop Preparation

This workshop includes a homework component of designing or redesigning a fully online asynchronous course that you will teach in the near future. Identify a fully online asynchronous course you plan to work on for the homework in this workshop before the workshop starts.

If your course is hybrid or online scheduled (remote):

You can use a hybrid or online scheduled (remote) course for this workshop by developing three modules (orientation and two weekly modules) worth of online content for your course.

If your course is in-person:

Please contact your division/department chair to strategize on which courses you might teach fully online asynchronous for in the future. It's important to identify a course before the workshop starts.

Workshop Description

For those of you who have taught with technology before, you are well aware that developing the course in the learning management system (LMS) is not even half of the process. The rest is all about making it work for the students and providing them with feedback as they engage with the learning components and accomplish the outcomes that you've set forth for them.

That's where this workshop comes in. At this point, you have completed an introduction to the Canvas learning management system (LMS), and have hopefully built the better part of a fully online course with content pages, assignments, discussions, URL links, and maybe even a quiz or two. This workshop continues that path, taking you to the next level:

How do students navigate through items in a course that they are not yet familiar with?
What do instructions and assignments and other course items look like in a Canvas course?
How do we engage students in the learning and build effective and responsive interactivity throughout the course and term?
How do we grade assignments and provide formative feedback to our students and use rubrics and the gradebook?

While these are some of the specific activities we'll cover in this workshop, we will also provide you with "the student experience" so you are better equipped to design a well thought-out learning environment and provide the technical support that your students will need and expect from you.

There will be both instructor experience and student experience for you to complete throughout the workshop. As an instructor, you'll be continuing to build out and develop your own course...hopefully one you plan to teach online or hybrid in a future quarter. As a student, you'll receive announcements and use the Inbox, see how the General Workshop Questions discussion forum works, participate in a learning community with your colleagues through a few discussions, and complete assignments. You will see first-hand how RSI (Regular and Substantive Interaction) is facilitated well in an online course. Along the way, you'll be getting ideas about the kinds of components you might consider for your own courses. The intent will be that every minute you spend in the workshop is fully an investment that will pay back to you as time goes on. There might be some learning activity types that you, personally, would never use, but our aim is to expose you to as many different strategies and methods as are practical, emphasizing those components that are best practices in effective online learning.

Workshop Topics

eL201 is structured around the topics highlighted in the eight general standards of the Quality Matters rubric, a process continuously researched by faculty around the world and dedicated entirely to the quality of online and hybrid education. You’ll note that after the orientation module, there is a QM General Standard 1 module, then a Standard 2 module, and so on, through all eight standards. We have the first two modules available for you in the shell now, and each week the rest of the content will be released incrementally, just as we might do in one of our "real" classes.

The modules include some discussions to engage with other eLearning faculty at Clark, and some quizzes to review details about specific standards in the Quality Matters rubric, but the majority of the work is the development of one of your courses into a fully online format such that it would meet the Quality Matters standards in Canvas should it ever be evaluated for that.

Learning Objectives

Design a fully online and accessible course to meet the essential Quality Matters standards.
Design a fully online course that applies andragogical principles, including student engagement, presence, and learning community principles.
Evaluate the effective instructional and active learning technologies in Canvas.

Late Work/No Show Policy

Participants who have not begun actively participating in the learning activities by Thursday morning of Week 1 will be removed from the workshop.

We facilitators will “nudge” you each week about any missing learning activities, assessments, or deliverables. Make sure to review your feedback to ensure that you’re achieving the intended learning and application from the workshop.

Our rigorous workshop schedule does not permit us to extend deadlines beyond the final workshop date.

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