Day 4 - Topics
- Learning Management Systems
- Houses, delivers, & tracks content
- Examples: Blackboard, Moodle, Saba, SumTotal
- Learning Content Management Systems
- Combines an LMS with authoring content capabilities
- Examples: Saba, SumTotal
- Social Interaction Tools
- Houses content and allows for communication
- Examples: Adobe Connect, Wimba, Webex
- Authoring Tools
- Allows you to create content for a course
- Examples: Lectora, Captivate, Flash
- Impacts on Design
- Synchronous versus asynchronous
- Synchronous systems - more dialog, more interaction, real-time communication
- Asynchronous systems - self-paced, communicate over time
- Designing with technology
- Advantages - more accessibility to resources, more interaction among participants, ability to provide video/audio resources within lesson
- Challenges - learners' lack of knowledge about technology, limited IT support for learners, storage space, interaction with other software
Day 4 - Assignments
- Complete Distance Course Design Document & Session Description. – Due Day 5
- Course Design Document
- Use the provided template to create a course design document
- Include the following in your design document and post to the discussion forum:
- Course description
- Course instructional/learning strategies
- Course media platforms
- Course provision for learner autonomy
- Course provision for structure
- Course communication
- Major and minor assessments
- Session Description
- Choose one session within your course to describe in detail using the provided template.
- Include the following in your session description and post to the discussion forum:
- Session objectives
- Session structure or procedures
- Learning activities
- Deliverables
- Assessments