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Course Orientation

Site: LaneOnline
Course: Course Plan (ID Services AY21/22)
Book: Course Orientation
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Date: Wednesday, January 15, 2025, 4:50 AM

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Welcome to the Course Design Introduction!

We are very happy you are here! 

This year, we're working in a new environment. Whether you've taught a million online courses or you've just finished teaching your first had-to-be remote course last Spring, the landscape has changed in the past few months -- and it may shift again. Thank you for taking the time to improve your teaching practices with us.

Your instructional design team has put together this "planning" course to provide a picture of what online (and remote) teaching means at Lane, to introduce our standards of best practices, and to help you build a course that is accessible and inclusive.

This course is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. Creative Commons License

Self-Paced and Individual Guidance

This course is monitored by the instructional design staff in Academic Technology. You can reach ID Services through our email: idservices@lanecc.edu

Most of this course is built to promote collegial co-exploration of learning about online practices. At some points, though, you'll get an experience that's closer to the student online experience. The instructional designer you work with during your time in this course will guide and assist you through this process, whether it takes you two days or the rest of the term. We are glad to be working with you!

Funding

This course is a paid opportunity for faculty to develop a course plan. We estimate the course will require 10 hours to complete. If you run into any issues or have questions, reach out to your instructional designer. Our top priority is to facilitate you through the planning phase of your next course and assist where we can to give you a stress free experience. Your instructional designer will record your hours for you once you've completed the first activity and the online course plan initial activity. You do not need to do anything on your timesheet or sign anything to receive the hours.

For every course you develop or revamp, part of that is going through the Course Planning process.

Developing a full course is a much longer process than what this course is set up to do. Other opportunities for development funding may be available through your division. Contact your dean directly if you are planning to teach an online course and want to find out if there are paid development opportunities available.


Course Structure

This course is an asynchronous, open-enrollment course broken into 3 Modules -- meaning you can start any time and complete activities completely on your own schedule. To model good course design, each module will follow a consistent layout and be broken into three sections: Overview, Learning Materials/Resources, and Activities.

Overview

Each module includes an overview page that should be read before reviewing the resources and completing the assigned activities. The overview will include an introduction to the module's topics, a list of the module's learning outcomes, and a list of learning materials and activities.

Learning Materials/Resources

Learning materials will be listed as individual resources or consolidated into a single page for each module. Materials may include links to online articles, text listing offline reading assignments, PDFs, slideshows, videos, interactive presentations, or additional file types.

Note: if you have any problems accessing course materials, please contact the instructor ASAP.

Activities

The activities in this course (Course Planning) guide you through developing your course plan. The next course in this series (Course Design Studio) helps you build the course itself, using well-researched standards. Every activity you complete here will help you compose a course plan. You can share the plan with your dean to help facilitate a conversation on converting your course to a fully online or hybrid modality.

In this course, you will complete short, embedded self-check quizzes, engage in asynchronous discussions, work through interactive lessons, and submit reflections that build your final Course Plan document.

Instructional Design Tip

The format and structure of this course were adapted from the Instructional Design Course Template in Moodle.  You may visit this template course and request that its format is imported into any of your courses. Email your request to: atc@lanecc.edu. Let us know the course CRN that you would like it imported to.

Basic Technology

To be successful in this course you will need:

Computer Skills

Basic digital literacy is necessary in order to be successful both in taking and leading an online course.

Basic Internet and Software Skills

  • Experience navigating the internet and using an internet browser.
  • Experience with internet searches using an internet search engine such as Google.
  • Comfort working with multiple browser windows open.
  • Basic knowledge of formatting using a word processing program.
  • Using your LCC email for communication.

Basic Computer Skills

  • Identify the visible (outside) components of a computer (e.g. monitor, computer, mouse, keyboard).
  • Turn a computer system on and off correctly.
  • Use a portable storage device, save files to different storage devices (e.g., thumb drive, hard drive, cloud storage).
  • Manipulate a mouse, including selecting, double-clicking, and dragging items.
  • Change the settings on the computer in the control panel such as date, time, font size, sound, monitor setting, and other hardware settings.
  • Open, close, re-size and move windows.
  • Determine the size of a file or folder.

Basic Moodle Skills

  • Moodle navigation skills (opening a course, accessing assignments, navigating from one block to another)
  • Basic page editing skills (similar to word processing)
  • Knowledge of the difference between resources and activities
  • Know how to download and upload files

This is a self-paced course that you will navigate through primarily on your own and in some instances with your assigned instructional designer.

Because this is an open-enrollment, flexibly scheduled course, we may have fellow faculty joining us throughout the summer, so you may experience either a crowd or a quiet room. Here are the expectations for course interaction:
    • Email the instructional designer you are working with directly with questions.
    • Participate in the Introduction Forum and any following forums by sharing your work and commenting on that of others.
    • Each module will hold one forum where you will interact and share your course plans with your peers in GROUPS.  You will keep the same group members through the entire course to help foster deeper relationships, however, please contact me at any time if you feel you could benefit from different perspectives on your work.
    • Complete the self-check activities embedded in the readings and presentations and use the results to improve your understanding.
    • The News and Announcements Forum would usually be used to contact everyone in the course; however, because of the open-enrollment nature of our course, frequent use of the announcements forum will not occur.

    a bear sits at a picnic table with the text "I built this with my own bear hands" over itYou can expect:

    • A response to email communication or Q&A forum posts within 1 business day.
    • Prompt feedback on any submitted assignments, including specific notes about anything that needs revision.
    • Quick and useful referral if your question is beyond something I know!

    To begin this course, please complete the following steps:

    1. Read every page of the Course Orientation (you're here!)
    2. LaneOnline Training and Development Opportunities AY 2020 document for an idea of available additional support options.
    3. Post an introduction message to the Introduction Forum (15-30 minutes)
    4. M1: LaneOnline Teaching Introduction (1-2 hr)

    If you have any course-specific questions, please ask them in the Course Q & A Forum. For any other questions (i.e. personal issues, sensitive questions), please email your instructional designer.