In Search of Quality Teaching

As I conclude my coursework in EDLD 5318 and finish creating my first fully-online course, I've been tasked with some reflection on the course development process and how it relates both to my learning philosophy and the concepts of online learning and quality teaching in general.

Bring It On(line)

The completed draft of my professional learning plan's online course component has been submitted. It feels good to have it committed to a final form, if only to have something to revise later. As my mother has been fond of saying, "It's good to have a plan, if only to have something to deviate from."

Part of this week's assignment, related to the submission of the online course, was to consider what courses in my own school might be ripe for redesign into online courses. I didn't have to look far....

Details, Details

The first half of my professional learning plan's online course component is up and somewhat running--submitted for evaluation as part of my coursework in EDLD 5318: Instructional Design in Online Learning.

As I share my thoughts on this, you may want to buckle up and prepare to go down a metacognitive rabbit hole. Yes, I am aware that rabbit hole trips typically do not involve seat belts. My blog, my rules.

The Dirtying of Hands

Two-thirds of the way through my DLL master's program, and I feel like I'm finally getting to put all of my thoughts and ideas from my innovation plan into concrete form, designing the online course portion of the professional learning program I'm proposing.