I am spending my summer developing an online course on Professional Development topics. I realized that blogging about my process might be helpful to someone considering online program delivery. This process has been challenging and thought-provoking, but incredibly stimulating and actually very fun!
It has required me to reflect and refresh myself on areas including pedagogy, various media that facilitates information delivery, how students prefer to learn, tools that can help this process, and even HTML to make the interface I'm using (Sakai) more appealing and user-friendly.
I proposed the course back in February as a combination of online and in-person workshops. While faculty were excited about the content, they wanted the entire course to be delivered online! This allows students to complete the class during the summer and immediately utilize course content in the fall of their senior year. A totally online class is a first in our school of business! How exciting to be ground-breaking!
After the course was approved, I realized I was on a tight deadline to get everything in place. Fortunately, I have presented all of these workshops as part of an ongoing in-person class I already teach. I even already had videos developed on each topic because I require students who missed my class to catch up through the web videos. That made the process of developing the workshops for this online class a little easier, however, I needed to rethink how the videos and other supplemental materials actually were used. It was imperative that I implement the best ways to engage students and ensure their mastery of the materials.
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