Home - College and Career Preparation: eLearn Introduction

Welcome!

I am looking forward to our first session on Monday at 9.00 am in J023.

Please make sure you all have access to eLearn as an instructor. You will need the Practice Course shell generated with your instructor account to understand our conversation on Monday and to begin developing your online course.

I have included some background information on this page. It does not pertain directly to online learning, but helps set the scene.

The resources should take less than an hour to complete and contemplate.

See you Monday!

Session Prompts

The resources included should have you assessing and evaluating your teaching. The goal of our sessions is to show how eLearn can assist you in course delivery and maintenance. Take a few moments and consider the following areas:

Content: Locating, accessing, and connecting
Class management: Tracking students' progress and engagement
Communication: Timely and concise communication
Assessment: Receiving assignments, assessing, and evaluating

Please bring your concerns in these areas to our sessions. We will highlight tools in eLearn that can save your time and sanity, while providing students with the information they need at their point of need.

You can also add your comments in the box below.

Setting the (Online) Scene

Here are two resources to get us started. For the second one, please remember your dominant perspective or bring your page of results with you on Monday. It will be interesting to see how many of us fall into the different categories.

Understanding the environment for online teaching
This chapter provides guidelines for understanding the online environment and the use of online teaching strategies. Although the focus is adult learners, this article presented opportunities and challenges in a reader-friendly format (it was academic without being concentrated on in-depth research).
Teaching Perspectives Inventory


The Teaching Perspectives Inventory measures teachers' orientations to their roles as managers of the learning process. The Inventory yields five alternative points of view (perspectives) on teaching by asking structured questions about teachers' actions in the teaching setting, their intentions how they organize the learning situation, and their beliefs about fundamental principles of teaching and learning.

Supplemental info: For the keeners

Good teaching: one size fits all?
This article delves more deeply into the five perspectives. It outlines the benefits and challenges to each perspective. You may want to peruse all five perspectives or zero in on your result.

Greatest Challenge

What do you see as your greatest challenge with eLearn? Please weigh in with your anonymous choice. Even if more than one apply, please choose the one most relevant to you.

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