Teaching Online: Creating Online Content

Translating Classroom Content

This section continues the process of developing an online course by exploring the possibilities for, and demands of, creating content for an online environment. We will be using momentarily the two worksheets you completed in the last section, but first, let's consider briefly the basic elements and nature of the new teaching and learning environment.

Basic Elements of Teaching and Learning Environments
In the classroom, your teaching and learning environment consists of a number of elements: a particular physical space, instructional mediums (such as textbooks, PowerPoints, and assignments), student interaction, and the environment you yourself create through expectations and interactions, as well as through your teaching style and tone. Similarly, a virtual learning space has a given landscape for meeting and interacting and also includes instructional mediums (content of different types and assignments), student interactions, and instructor expectations and voice (of which tone is a part).

Here we'll be considering one crucial instructional medium content and its presentation options, since this specific instructional medium has new significance and heightened visibility in an electronic, multimedia environment. Other learning environment issues, such as building community, discussion, and student interaction will be taken up later.

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