TOPcast: The Teaching Online Podcast

Episode 54: “Keep It Simple Starting” with Design and Teaching

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In this episode, TOPcast hosts Kelvin and Tom talk through how “starting simply”, with the essentials, in online design/teaching and then iterating over time will make for a more successful experience for all concerned. These principles hold for other kinds of digital learning implementations.

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    Note: Each resource below contains individual ways to Keep It Simple Starting. Do not try them all at once.

    Good Practices

    • Teaching Online Pedagogical Repository (TOPR) – An online compendium of online and blended teaching practices. Hosted by UCF but open to all for contributions. Creative Commons-licensed.
    • Online Learning Consortium’s Effective Practices
    • DIY Design Tasks for Blended Courses

      • Tools/Technologies

      • “5 Terrific Edtech Tools for Creating a Highly Engaging Online (or Hybrid) Course” (from eCampus News)
      • EduAppCenter (Open standard-based integrations for your learning management system)

        • Other Strategies

        • “Ten Steps Toward Universal Design of Online Courses” (from University of Arkansas, Little Rock)
        • “How to Create a Mobile-First Online Course” (from LearnDash)
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