Instructional Strategies for Online Teaching: A Design Course for Faculty

Creating a course online can be an overwhelming task. How do you take traditional course content and place it online? How do you use the technology to enhance the instruction? Milligan College’s faculty were asking these questions. The Instructional Strategies for Online Teaching course was designed and developed to help answer those questions. The course led the faculty step-by-step through the thought process of creating a course online along with developing an understanding of how technology could improve student outcomes. Faculty became the students and saw a different side to online learning while at the same time expanding their outlook of course objectives and technology within their instruction. The Instructional Strategies for Online Teaching course assisted the faculty to strengthen current teaching methods besides developing new ones. The three-week class gave the faculty a taste of online learning and online teaching. This presentation will cover design, development, implementation and evaluation of the Instructional Strategies for Online Teaching course. Examples of the faculty projects along with comments about the course will be reviewed. Designing an online course is never easy, and is particularly difficult when you don’t know where to start. This course will help faculty find the starting point and point them in the right direction.