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 Resources for Teaching Online

 

 

  1. SSC Online: the entry point for students taking online courses
  2. Sloan-C: Salem State College is an institutional member of the Sloan Consortium, an international organization formed to ehlp learning institutions improve quality ,sacale and breadth of the online offerings. Every member of the SSC community can create their own Sloan-C login and password and take advantage of our institutional membership. Just go to http://www.sloan-c.org/aboutus/help.asp. Scroll down the page and choose the option that says "Activate My Own Membership Under My Institution/Organization." Once the registration has been submitted, it will be cleared through the system. Please note that this process is not automatic and that you should be able to access the website within seven working days. Membership benefits include:
    1. The ePremium Member Central website, http://epremium.sloan-c.org/, is our institution's portal to the Premium Membership benefits. Pdf versions of Sloan-C publications, including the excellent Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks (JALN), are available as well as archived workshops from past Sloan-C workshop series.
    2. SSC now has 20 coupons for $150 off any of Sloan-C's popular online workshop series. These coupons give our institution more than half off of the normal registration fees.
    3. SSC has 10 coupons for $50 off of the registration fee for the annual conference on asynchronous learning.
  3. Quality Matters:

Design Tips:
Course Organization
Differences Between Face-to-Face and Online Teaching
Seven Principles for Online Instruction
Online Resources for Designing Online Courses

Self-Evaluation of Course Design:

Salem State College is a member of Quality Matters.

Student Surveys- Course Evaluations:

  1. Connecticut Distance Learning Consortium: http://www.ctdlc.org/evaluation/evaluation.cfm
  2. Office of Educational Assessment at the University of Washington: http://depts.washington.edu/oeaias/iasquest.htm
  3. Mid-point survey. Some of the questions are specific for the course in which it was used, but most are general. This survey is long and fairly comprehensive. I suggest trimming down to the specific components you are interested in. For example, I had an online discussion for tech questions, so I did not need the questions about technology. I knew where the problems were and asked students for suggestions throughout the course. Open discussions about navigation, instructions, technology solve a lot of problems. You can then concentrate on course content and activities in the online survey. I suggest SurveyMonkey for anonymous evaluations, call the CTI for more information.

 

Teaching Tips:
1 Week before Class Starts
Online Discussions (Rubric)