After reading the article on "Putting the Learning Back Into e-Learning," I looked around on the Internet for a resource to help online course designers with strategies for delivering instruction. As a school teacher, I have a bunch of techniques and activities that I use on a daily basis and I can draw on my education background for help with developing the instruction. I know in my Advanced ID course, our product was very linear and just kind of "read and click." I thought that the method of teaching our learners was lacking and that translated into a boring regurgiation of information from our SME. Not that our product was poor, but from the standpoint of an educator, I felt like our product was just a glorified PowerPoint with very basic strategies for imparting the information to our students.
Anyway....the following link gives a bunch of different, practical activities that can be used in online courses. Hope it is useful.
http://www.ion.illinois.edu/resources/otai/
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I agree, this type of course design does not make the materials authentic. I think learners need to have some type of exercise or experience that simulates the real environment as best as it can.
John,
This is a great link!
I also posted the link in the class del.icio.us site - giving you credit of course!
Thanks for finding the info and sharing.
Cheers, Dr. N
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