TYCA West: Guidelines for Online Teaching and Learning

TYCA-West Conference
October 12-13, 2007
Building Bridges of Lifelong Learners

Teaching and Learning Effectively Online
Vartouhi Asherian, College of Southern Nevada
Nancy Webb, College of Southern Nevada

Asherian and Webb are instructional designers from CSN’s office of eLearning. The presenters started by saying that every time they googled “best practices online,” they’d always hit the same model of Seven Principles of effective pedagogy and wanted to move beyond that. They give some tips, guidelines, suggestions, and models for constructing online courses. 

They argued that we not only have to address students learning styles, but teacher’s teaching styles as well. In either case, they suggested that we need to provide links to assessments for both.

Finally, I really liked that quick checklist on incorporating accessibility into online courses. This is becoming an increasing concern with us as Mesa, so I’m thrilled to have some resources to help both my colleagues as well as myself.

• Word-stylesheets
• Images-Alt Text
• PowerPoint-include PPT accessibility
• Quizzes-extended times
• transcripts for videos

November 18 2007 | Posted in TYCA-West