Online education involves much more than just putting lecture notes online. Successful courses incorporate multiple teaching and technology tools, such as discussion boards, structured email communication, calendars, summative and formative assessments, chat sessions, and student homepages, blogs or whiteboards. Use of well planned interactive multimedia, audio and video helps to create a more engaging course.
As you consider putting your course online, contact ETS, marni.dunning@mnsu.edu or jeffrey.henline@mnsu.edu, to arrange a meeting. We will work with you to select and master the technology, software, and other tools you will need to develop and administer a successful online course. We also provide production services and support, detailed below, so that you can focus on content and instruction.
The ETS Online Course Development Team can help with the following:
Instructional Design
- Identify goals and objectives
- Identify existing and potential resources for course development
- Provide an overview of software, multimedia and instructional tools available
- Provide an overview of D2L and course templates
- Help to create course outline, structure and components
- Develop course templates and pages with common components, such as technology/skills requirements review, discussion guidelines, rubrics, etc
- Suggest active learning strategies for online activities
- Brainstorm choices available for assessment, discussions, group work, etc.
- Go through online course development checklist
- Establish process flow for future course management
Course Web Page Design
- Develop course webpages in FrontPage and Dreamweaver following university web-design principles and accessibility guidelines
- Develop and edit images for class materials
- Scan slides to image files for presentation or class materials
D2L course management:
- Load course materials, lectures, PowerPoints, video/audio files
- Set up release properties for course materials that are to be made available at specific points in the course
- Set up quizzes and quiz administration tools
- Create quizzes from Word files, load into D2L, and set up quiz properties
- Contact publishers for testbanks, convert from other formats if necessary
- Create Gradebook to capture all assignments, quizzes, tests, etc.
- Create Discussion forums, topics, group areas, and release properties as needed
- Establish course and duplicate course content and tools as requested for new courses
Day-to-day maintenance of online courses:
- Provide D2L face-to-face (F2F) orientation sessions for faculty and students
- Support faculty and students via email, chat and phone
- Troubleshoot problems, in coordination with D2L Support group
Coordination with other partners:
- Internal ITS units:
- video/audio production
- web development team
- data entry services
- word processing services
- University units: Library Services, Extended Learning
- External resources: book publishers, testbank providers, software vendors
Multimedia development:
- Flash games and movies
- Self-test activities
- Presentations with audio or video narrations
- Interactive software simulations
- Digital media development: CDs and DVDs
Technology Support:
For more information contact either Marni Dunning ~ marni.dunning@mnsu.edu, 507-389-5892 or Jeffrey Henline ~ jeffrey.henline@mnsu.edu, 507-389-1846
