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An Introduction to eLearning
Interested in creating an online or blended course?
Just want more detail?
There are many resources that will help you learn more about what’s involved:
Start with the resource page; a clear set of York University common language for eLearning. Also available are other supporting resources and Teaching Commons workshops on eLearning.
Contact BOLD@yorku.ca to arrange an appointment with one of the BOLD team members; this will be arranged within one week.
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Design Your Online/Blended Course
With the course proposal approved by the AVP Teaching and Learning, the next step is to create a course design. If you haven’t done so before, the best way to start is to take the eLearning @ York (link) course. This course includes creation of your documented course design. Teaching online involves many considerations that require special knowledge and skills: the eLearning @ York course will introduce you to them.
By the end of the course, and in collaboration with the BOLD team, you’ll have created an initial course design document. This course design document will include:
Learning outcomes
The structure and sequence of course elements to support those outcomes
Appropriate activities and assessment tasks
If you’ve already taken the eLearning @ York course, please work directly with your BOLD team on the course design document for your new course. Contact bold@yorku.ca.
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A course development coordinator, who is a member of the BOLD team, will be assigned for the construction of your course. The course development coordinator will coordinate group efforts to build a course that implements the documented course design. You, the course development coordinator, and other BOLD specialists will plan out how much time and other resources will be allocated to the various elements of the course. As different courses have different kinds of learning outcomes, which in turn require different kinds of course elements, the specific resources created for each course are likely to vary considerably.
Generally, however, you can expect that course development will include:
Creating a detailed instructional design – this puts the detailed flesh on the bones of the course design document
Constructing a Moodle course with content including assessment instruments
Constructing an introductory video that introduces you as the Course Director and the goals of the course
Guidance on maintaining your Moodle course during course delivery
You will meet regularly with the BOLD team to keep course construction on track so that when it is time to teach the course, all the elements for the first week – and in some cases the whole course -- will be ready.
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Revise Your Course For The Next Offering
Toward the end of the first course offering, its success may be assessed with student course evaluations, assessment of student activity, and other approaches decided upon by you and the BOLD team. After the course concludes, you and the BOLD team will get together to ask what went well, what could be improved, and what could be added for next time.
Don't Forget!
Now that you're familiar with the six BOLD steps, let's get started!
Start with the resource page; a clear set of York University common language for eLearning. Also available are other supporting resources and Teaching Commons workshops on eLearning.
Contact BOLD@yorku.ca to arrange an appointment with one of the BOLD team members; this will be arranged within one week.
