DAY 4: Overview

Welcome to Day 4! Reflection and Application

Now is the time to take step back and look at what you've accomplished over the last three days, and consider how you might apply it to your own course. Day 1 introduced you to foundational concepts in online learning, so that you could start thinking more carefully about synchronous and asynchronous teaching strategies on Day 2. During Day 3, you explored your philosophy of online teaching and started to articulate your teaching presence in an online blended learning environment.

Now, we give you a chance to put that together for reflection and application.

As we approach the end of this five-day program, you have likely gained a sense of specific aspects of your course that you would like to work on in order to apply your learning. Recognizing that everyone will be at a different stage of this process, we offer you two options for an activity. By the end of this activity, you should be prepared to share your work from this week with a small group of peers on Day 5 (You will have 10-15 minutes each to share your work in small groups and get feedback).

For Day 4's activity, here are two options to choose from:

1) Option 1: The first option is a more Structured Mini-Project aimed at transforming your syllabus for Blended Online Learning. Instructions are in the "Option 1" icon below.

2) Option 2: The second option is an Open Mini-Project in which you begin or continue the first stage of changes to your course based on what you have learned so far (You may wish to work on your Canvas course with attention to a/synchronous distinctions, film a welcome message focusing on teaching presence, or perhaps you would rather write a "to do" list for yourself to begin next week). This mini-project aims to hold time/space for you to work on whatever would be most useful at this time.

Learning Objectives

By the end of Day 4, you will be able to:

Apply specific effective strategies for online blended learning (from readings) to your course;
Identify one or more key areas of online blended learning that you would like to focus on building out (this will depend on which activity you choose).

Click on Option 1 or Option 2 below to start working on Day 4.

Option 1:

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Option 2:

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Virtual Drop-in Sessions

You can also book a time with us for some virtual one-on-one conversation. We will need you to complete the following survey at your earliest convenience.

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