General Information: Two Online Short-Courses

In 2011, Dee Fink & Associates has begun offering two online courses that will allow college teachers – IN THE USA OR INTERNATIONALLY – to learn about designing their courses in a way that promotes greater student engagement and better student learning.

Here is some general information about these two online courses:

General Short-Course on “Designing Significant Learning Experiences” Course Specifically on “Designing ONLINE or HYBRID Courses”
Titles of Units: 

  1. Three Important Perspectives
  2. Your Dreams for Student Learning
  3. The Big Purpose of Your Course
  4. Context and Situation
  5. Writing High Quality Learning Goals
  6. Identifying Learning Activities
  7. Identifying Feedback & Assessment Activities
  8. Integrating Your Course
  9. Creating a Learning-Centered Grading System
  10. Identifying Possible Problems
  11. Communicating Your Design to Students
  12. Evaluating Your Own Teaching
  13. Continuing to Learn about Teaching
 Titles of Modules: 

  1. Introduction
  2. Model of “Integrated Course Design”
  3. Developing Learning Goals
  4. Developing Assessments
  5. Developing Learning Activities
  6. Aligning Goals, Learning Objectives, Assessments, & Learning Activities
  7. Determining Organizational and Navigational Strategies
  8. Designing Introductory Activities
  9. Using Media & Technology
  10. Ensuring Access & Compliance (ADA & Copyright)
  11. Assessing an Online or Hybrid Course
  12. Next Steps; Feedback
  • When Available: This course has started and is operating with continuous enrollment. Whenever we get 5-8 new enrollees, we will start a new section.
  • For more information about this online course, click on this link: ONLINE COURSE on - Designing Online Courses

Both courses will require approximately 30-40 hours of work to complete, and both courses will be led by a “Feedback Facilitator.”

Certificates Available: Both courses have two Certificates that can be earned:

  1. Certificate of Completion: Issued when you complete all the units.
  2. Certificate of Performance: If, after completing the course, you can submit the design of your course and it is reviewed as meeting the criteria for good course design, you will be issued this certificate. It indicates that you not only know about course design but that you can also do it!

For further information about either of these two online courses, contact the head of “Dee Fink & Associates”:

Dee Fink

dfink40@gmail.com

Ph: 405-364-6464 (in the US)