Foundations for Success
“Abundant research shows that excellent teaching rests on the same principles across all platforms – classroom, online, or hybrid. But online education holds special challenges that stem from both students and instructors.” (Nilson, Goodson, 2017 )
In this module, we’ll lay some groundwork for the rest of this program. Online course design and teaching can be a daunting task, but there is also room for reflection, innovation, collaboration, and improvements to learning.
This program has been designed to walk through some basic design principles for online teaching and learning, and also provide you with an opportunity to practice what you are learning. Our goal is that course content and activities will be immediately useful to you in your teaching or planning.
Learning Goals
By the end of this module we hope you will be able to:
- Learn about this Online Teaching & Design resource.
- Locate course and university support options available to you
- Review online course design frameworks and how they will be used to guide course modules
- Learn how to apply your learning to your Syllabus and Canvas site.