Developing Effective Web-Based Courses

Table of Contents

1. The Nature of Online Instruction
2. Excellence in Online Teaching and Learning
   1. A Quality Online Course
   2. Prepare Your Materials
   3. Create an Online Course
   4. Prepare Materials for Electronic Delivery
   5. Create an Online Learning Community in Your Course
   6. Self-Assessment Two
3. The Simulated Classroom

Create an Online Learning Community in Your Course

Interactivity is the Key

A learning community is defined as a purposeful restructuring of curriculum to link together courses or coursework so that students find greater coherence in what they are learning and greater interaction with faculty and peers. Within your course you must be the facilitator of its online learning community. You must do more than just providing students with course content. You must be the facilitator of the interactivity in your course - that between you and the students, the students and the course content, and the students with their peers. The following readings may prove helpful:

• Interaction and Engagement
• Technology-Mediated Learning Resource Centre
• Online Course Evaluation
• Making the Most of Online Learning
• Strategies for Effective Student/Student Interaction
• SREB Principles of Good Practice
• The Louisiana Virtual School