When designing courses it is important to ensure that learning activities support the type of learning that is to occur. For example, a traditional class was learning about motivating the workforce. I make three puzzles of equal shape and with equal sized/shape pieces. One puzzle was Maslow's theory, one was Psychological Contract and one was How to Deal with Difficult people. Divide the group up into equal teams (4 - 5 members; 3 teams), mix up the pieces and give each team equal number of pieces. Tell them that they have to form the three puzzles (give them the topic… >>>

I have found the utilization of Turn-It-In to greatly reduce the ability for students to cheat on assignment and research papers. It also assists in catching students who copy and paste material from the internet and plagiarize. One neat feature that Turn-It-In does is upon submitting an assignment it reviewes to see not only if the students response was copied from the internet but also from other students current/past responses. This has allowed me to capture many times where a student tries to submit the same research paper for multiple classes and in one circumstance where a student was turning… >>>

I have been teaching for about seven years now and I have found it to be a great challenge to adapt my traditional teaching methods to online methods. Of particular note is the live chat session. The main concern I have here is that the communication is more or less one way in the sense that my voice is the only one heard. With the software that I use, students are able to type a message to me or otherwise participate in side conversations via IM-style messages. To be honest, I really don't like this since it removes the primary… >>>

I like how, in this first section of the course, relationships were identified between online curricula and face-to-face curricula. For example, having a clearly organized framework or structure of the course as with a syllabus corresponds to an easily-navigable online platform. I mention this because i think it is important to think about traditional teaching when designing online platforms. Each real-life component of classroom teaching should have a corresponding online component. I think if we approach online course design in this manner we will be successful. Another aspect I am particularly curious about is: how can we replace the human… >>>

I can't totally agree with all that was said in this module in regards to allowing students to access information in various forms. In my experience, too many, if given the opportunity to use the internet in class, will usually end up,very quickly, on socail sites etc that have no relation to course content. Perhaps it is the 18-25 year old groups I usually deal with but that is the majority of post secondary education is it not? Hyper links are OK as you can control the area acessed to some extent but to allow them to decide where they… >>>