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Teaching at a Distance

Designing and Teaching Online Courses
Advising and Preparing your Students for Distance Learning at IPFW
Blackboard Vista Tutorials for Students
Teaching via TV and Video Conference

 

This page of the CELT web site includes resources to support teaching in situations in which the teacher is not physically present with students.

CELT instructional designers and consultants can help you integrate distance technologies into your face-to-face courses to enhance engagement and interaction, and help you design distance courses to provide a learning environment of maximum benefit to your students.

The CELT Library contains books on all aspects of distance and online teaching. The Helmke Library subscribes to an excellent newsletter, Online Classroom, published bi-monthly and filled with tips and tactics to enhance your students learning and make your life easier. Follow this link to the Helmke library holdings. Articles are available in .pdf format.

Designing and Teaching Online Courses

Contact CELT for assistance in designing, developing, and enhancing your course. You can request a consultation using an online request form. CELT can also arrange for a formative peer review or peer consultation, if you wish.

As you design online course components you can use this "Guide to Online Course Design and Quality Standards", developed by "The Quality Matters™ program, sponsored by MarylandOnline, and supported in part by the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE), U.S. Department of Education."

Grants to support development of online courses are available from the Division of Continuing Studies. For information and application materials, go to Grants and Fellowships.

The Minnesota State Colleges and Universities has prepared excellent self-guided tutorials on the following subjects:

MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching) is a free, web-based resource designed to help you find online teaching and learning materials quickly and easily. It is a continually growing catalog of online teaching tools and support resources that help faculty enhance their instruction. MERLOT is also a community of people committed to enriching the teaching and learning experience. MERLOT learning materials

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Advising and Preparing your Students for Distance Learning at IPFW

The office of Distance Learning within the Division of Continuing studies has prepared a web page that helps students decide if Distance Learning is compatible with their learning style and work schedule. Students should read this material before they register. You may find it helpful to review the advice and recommendations of the office of Distance Learning so that you can better advise students in your distance courses.

After students register for a distance course, are directed to the Distance Learning orientation website.

As a distance instructor, you should read “What Does My Instructor Expect?” and “Questions for Your Instructor”.

IPFW’s Division of Continuing Studies has a Distance Learning blog where students share their experiences with distance learning. This should be required reading for all distance faculty.

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Blackboard Vista Tutorials for Students

ITS has developed a set of tutorials that helps students get off to the right start with Blackboard Vista. You can insert this link into your Blackboard Vista course: http://elearning.ipfw.edu/documentation/students/ . Please send your comments and suggestions to Mandi Witkovsky at witkovsm@ipfw.edu.

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Teaching via TV and Video Conference

“Interactive Videoconferencing Instructor Resource Center” is a wiki (collaborative web page) assembled by Sandy Schaufelberger, IPFW’s ACENet Program Coordinator. The site is a rich source of information about events, workshops, and resources (including instructions for running the equipment in KT G20 or G22) relevant to teaching via two-way videoconferencing.

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