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Distance Learning at Adelphi |
This area provides policies, guidelines, and resources to help decide whether online teaching is right for you and how to
get started with developing an online or blended course.
Adelphi Policy on Distance Learning
Adelphi Policy on Distance Learning (PDF)
Sample Courses
Online courses can take may different forms and shapes. The following courses should not provide standards of online learning, but rather as selected possible online learning environments.
Exemplary online course :
E-Commerce Development, William Rainey Harper College
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Exemplary blended course:
Community Nursing Service: Fun 2 B Fit, University of North Florida
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Exemplary non-credit course:
Standards for Teachers through Educational Projects, Wichita Public Schools
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Expert Interviews on Developing and Teaching Online Courses
Professor Joan McMahon of Towson University shared insights on re-inventing herself as an online faculty member.
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Kayne Shelton, Dean of Online Education at Dallas Baptist University spoke about changing roles in an online learning community. (Duration: 00:16:08)
Is Online Teaching Right for You?
The FCPE is there to assist with that question. Please schedule an appointment with Shabana at (516) 877-4225 to brainstorm ideas and possibilities for online teaching. The following links provide some basic considerations.
You may wish to take the following quiz to learn about skills and habits helpful to developing and teaching an online course:
Online Quiz: Is online teaching right for me?
Teaching an Online or Blended Course
Important information: Faculty need to obtain written permission from their dean or chair to teach an online course.
Course methodology needs to be indicated when the course is open for student registration. Please let your departmental course planner
know if you are using the Blended ( 30-79% content online) or Online (80%+ content online) methodology so they can process the course
appropriately.
Required Technology Skills
- Ability to post materials in Blackboard: embedded, as attachments, and in form of links;
- Ability to create and manage a discussion forum in the Blackboard;
- Ability to create and administer surveys, quizzes and/or tests in Blackboard;
- Ability to publish students grades via the Blackboard grade book;
- Ability to guide students through the online course environment;
- Knowledge and ability to install necessary “plug-ins” for this course;
- Ability to identify commonly accessible file formats and how to save them;
- Have an understanding of how to provide material in a manner accessible to students with disabilities,
- Ability to resize graphics so they can be easily viewed in Blackboard;
- Knowledge on how to set up an E-reserve with the library, and how to make it available to students via Blackboard.
FCPE Workshops to Prepare Teaching an Online Course
The following workshops should be attended at least one semester prior to developing or teaching an online course.
- Blackboard Basics (1h)
- Adding Content (1.5hrs)
- Course communications (1.5hrs)
- Blackboard Assessment (2hrs)
- Preparing to teach an online course (1.5hrs)
- Online Pedagogy (1h)
Check our current schedule to see when these workshops are offered.
Developing an Online Course
Developing an online course should be a dedicated exercise in organization, learning new skills, and re-inventing yourself as a facilitator of learning. We advise faculty to plan for several months of development time. The FCPE offers a two week online summer institute in June of each year to help facilitate and prepare the development process. Faculty will continue to be supported for the remaining summer months to complete course materials and activities for the following fall semester.
Handouts:
Course design guidelines: Recommended elements of blended and online courses* (PDF)
*Adapted from the Blackboard Greenhouse Exemplary Course Awards Rubric
Blackboard Greenhouse Awards. 2007. Blackboard Inc. 28 May 2007.
Sample development timeline (PDF)
Template for detailed course outline (PDF)
Please contact Shabana Figueroa at 516.877.4225 or email figueroa@adelphi.edu with any question you may have about distance learning at Adelphi.
It is recommended that faculty teaching in Web-based learning modalities acquire competencies in online pedagogy and distance learning technologies. The Faculty Center for Professional Excellence provides faculty with hands-on training and support in course design and development, as well as in all distance learning technologies supported by the university.
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Contact
For additional information, please contact:
Faculty Center for Professional Excellence
Alumnae Hall, Room 123
p - 516.877.4221
f - 516.877.4229
e - fcpe@adelphi.edu
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