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Online Learning Support

Instructional Design Resources for Online Faculty

Web Resources

Dialogue-Intensive Learning

  • An article in E-Learn Magazine by Richard Dool, D.Mgt, Assistant Professor, Seton Hall University that shows how to use a Discussion Board to fully engage students in online courses that require significant discussions.

Pink Flamingo's Resource Lists

 

Blackboard and Web support

  • Online faculty and students both have access to Blackboard sites to support their use of Blackboard through documents, tutorials, and links to web resources.
  • Students also have access to a web site of informational and support links: http://cit.mercyhurst.edu/mconline.html

 Read about fall grants for faculty to convert courses and teach online.

Learning is not so much an additive process, with new learning simply piling up on top of existing knowledge, as it is an active, dynamic process in which the connections are constantly changing and the structure reformatted.
-K. Patricia Cross

 

The following traditional instructional design models may be useful to faculty who are considering redesigning a course for online instruction:

Instructional Design Models

Gagne's Nine Events of Instruction

Taxonomy of Educational Objectives

The Dick & Carey Model of Instructional Design

The ADDIE Model of Instructional Design

Download a graphic representation (PDF) of the ADDIE model at Stephen J. McGriff's site.


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