Design and Facilitation of E Learning Courses

Week 1: Foundations of Learning Outcomes Study Materials Activity Assessment Able to define e-learning; understand the learning and Instructions;& Describe the learning theories. Theory into Practice Database, Available at http://tip.psychology.org/index.html Encyclopedia of Educational Technology, Available at http://coe.sdsu.edu/eet Designing Online Learning by Sanjaya Mishra. Published by the Commonwealth of Learning. Available at http://www.col.org/SiteCollectionDocuments/KS2001-02_online.pdf

Week 2: Foundations of Learning (cont..)

Behaviourism Instructional Design Course of Master of Arts (Distance Education) of STRIDE, IGNOU.

Instructional Technology: WikiBooks. Available at http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Instructional_Technology

Week 3: Instructional Design Models and Theories

Overview of Instructional Design

Cognitive Load Theory

Cognitive Flexibility Theory

Identifying a course and target audience (with need assessment) Finalising the course and the target audience and their level

Week 4: Instructional Design Models and Theories (cont..)

4C-ID Model

ASSURE Model

ADDIE Model

Dick and Carey Model

Collaborative Learning

Identifying the instructional design model for the selected course finalising the instructional design model for the selected course

Week 5: Instructional Design Models and Theories (cont..)

Collaborative Learning

Scenario-Based Learning

Problem-Based Learning

op Down and Bottom up models in curriculum Development

Designing the learning environment for the selected course finalising the learning environment for the selected course

Week 6: Instructional Design Processes

Blooms Taxonomy

Gagne’s Nine principles of ID

Learners and Learning Styles

Should we be using Learning Styles? What research has to say to practice.Available at http://www.lsda.org.uk/files/PDF/1540.pdf

Designing learning outcome for the selected course finalising learning outcome for the selected course

Week 7: Instructional Design Processes(cont..)

Vygotsky: Language of thought

Banner-Memory and learning

Learning Objectives

Week 8: Computer Mediated Communication

Concept Mapping

Tools for Concept Mapping

Technology Analysis for e-Learning

www.freemind .com

Designing concept map for the selected course finalisingconcept map for the selected course

Week 9: Collaborative Learning

Synchronous Online Learning and Tools for Synchronous Learning

Asynchronous Online Learning and Tools for Asynchronous Learning

144 Tips for Synchronous E-Learning: Strategy+ Research, Ed by Bill Brandon. Published by the eLearning Guild in 2008. Available at http://www.elearningguild.com/content.cfm?selection=doc.1025 Critically analysis the Collaborative learning Assignment

Week 10: Collaborative Learning(cont..)

Instructional support for collaborative learning

Evaluation of Learning

Structuring the online course

Curtis, D.D., & Lawson, M.J. (2001). Exploring Collborative Online Learning, Journal of Asynchronous Leanring Networks, 5 (1), Available at http://www.aln.org/publications/jaln/v5n1/pdf/v5n1_curtis.pdf

Smith, B.L., &McGreagor, J.T. What is Collborative Learning? Available at http://learningcommons.evergreen.edu/pdf/collab.pdf

Structuring the selected course finalising the structure of the selected course

Week 11: Activities of Online Learning

Online Tutoring: Skills and Competencies of Online Tutors

e-Moderating, The Five Stage Model for Online moderation

R2D2 (Read, Reflect, Display, Do) Model

Online Tutoring eBook. Ed by Carol A. Higgison. Available at http://web.archive.org/web/20071212221227/otis.scotcit.ac.uk/onlinebook/

Nachindila, B. (2007). The role of tutors in teaching of Online English for Business programmes in South Africa: A Case study, MERLOT Journal of Online Teaching and Learning, 3 (4), Available at http://jolt.merlot.org/documents/nchindila.pdf

Week 12: Activities for Online Learning (cont..)

Assessment and Evaluation

Case studies

Page: E-Moderating (2004) Ed 2. by Gilly Salmon. Published by Kogan London.

E-tivities (2002) by Gilly Salmon. Published by Kogan Page: London.

Empowering Online Learning (2008) by Curtis J. Bonk and Ke Zhang. Published by Jossey Bass: San Francisco.

E-Learning Groups and Communities by David McConnell, (2006). OU Press/ McGraw Hill Education: Berkshire.