No, I didn’t forget to change the title of this initial post. I used it intentionally.
I am involved in UMW’s Online Learning Initiative, the goal of which is to develop a collection of online courses that are consistent with our liberals arts & sciences values and that are of equivalent quality to our face-to-face courses. These courses will be not just good enough for summer school, but good enough for prime time, that is, our regular terms! Our first cohort of faculty has been working for the last three months to build their courses. I have to admit, coming into this program (in a leadership role), I’ve never had the urge to teach a fully online course. My normal mode of teaching is blended, which strikes me as the best of both worlds. But as I worked with our faculty this summer, it stuck me that I really needed to give online teaching a try. So here I am.
The purpose of this blog is to narrate the process of taking apart my Principles of Macroeconomics course, prior to reassembling appropriate parts to create an online version. I should warn you that the posts will likely be less thought out than I normally write. My purpose here is to get the ideas down, before I forget them.
I’ve actually started this story on my regular blog, Pedablogy. Here are links to three previous posts:
I hope you will follow along, make comments, ask questions and raise concerns when they come to you. Maybe we can all learn from this.
Ok, I found it, this is very, very cool. Looking forward to this.
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