Web-based (Moodle) course - Register to work -at-your-own-pace anytime - 20 CE from the MLA
Phase 1. Topic 1. The Instructional Design Process and Web Design
Lecture, Readings, and Discussion
Phase 2. Topics 2-4. Creating an Instructional Design Plan for Web-based Training
Phase 2. Topic 2: Evaluating Online Training from a Student and Teacher Viewpoint
Learning Activities and Readings:
Phase 2. Topic 3: Designing a a Simple Unit of Instruction* Step s 1-5
Learning Activities and Readings:
*A Unit Instruction in this context means short course/workshop/tutorial, etc.
Phase 2. Topic 4: Designing a Simple Unit of Instructions Step s 6-7 and Putting it all together.
Learning Activities and Readings:
You may choose to register for Implementing Online Teaching and Learning:
Using Moodle and Other Web 2.0 Features to implement your course/workshop/tutorial on the Moodle LMS (or an LMS of your choice that you have access to).
Overview and Learning Objectives
In this four Topic hands-on course the intellectual focus will be on using good instructional design and Web page design principles. Participants will also be introduced to Web-based Teaching techniques and materials using standard Web pages and the Moodle LMS.
This course requires a significant amount of hands-on learning-activities , project work, and readings. This work will result in a completed instructional design plan for an instructional unit - course/workshop/tutorial - of the participants choice for a learner group of their choice with teacher guidance and approval.
This is a two phase course.
- Phase one is lecture, discussion, and readings on the instructional design process in the context of online teaching and learning.
- Phase two is hands-on activities that will step participants through creating or assessing an instructional design plan (with teacher guidance and approval) for a short unit of instruction on a topic and for learners of their choice (short course/tutorial/course).
The course is hosted on a Moodle server. Participants will receive and/or be able to download printable versions of the learning activities etc. to use during the course session as well.
Diane Kovacs has been teaching this course in various versions for over a decade. The original version was a three Topics long hands-on course "Designing and Implementing Web-based Training in Libraries" developed for the Cleveland Area Metropolitan Libraries in 1998.
Learning Objectives
- Participants will be able to use clear instructional design process to design distance education/online teaching and learning units.
- Participants will be able to evaluate distance education/Web-based tutorials, courses, or workshops in terms of their design and relevance.
- Participants will end the session with a completed instructional design plan for a simple tutorial, short course, or workshop of their choice (with teacher guidance and approval).
Librarians and other information specialists who are interested in learning the instructional design process, reviewing distance education/Web-based/online teaching and learning tools and options.
Some experience with online learning is assumed. (e.g., have taken a course online, completed a Web-based tutorial as a learner). No online teaching experience is expected, but Web-based teachers will find the course a good review and reinforcement experience.
Participants should know how to use e-mail and a current standard Web Browser. Level of instruction is intermediate
Register anytime to work-at-your-own-pace with a Web teacher through e-mail, chat and Moodle. $175. 20 MLA CE.
Diane K. Kovacs is President of Kovacs Consulting - Internet &Web Training.She has been a Web Teacher and Consultant for nearly 20 years. She designs and teaches Web-based and in-person courses for organizations and individuals including UIUC GSLIS LEEP, ACR, MLA, NEO-RLS, NTRLS, SEFLIN, WNYRLC, and others. Diane has been designing and teaching Web-based and in-person MLA Approved CE Courses since 2001
Her most recent book is The Kovacs Guide to Electronic Library Collection Development: Essential Core Subject Collections, Selection Criteria, and Guidelines, 2nd Edition (2009) Neal-Schuman Publishers. The Virtual Reference Handbook: Interview and Information Delivery Techniques for the Chat and E-Mail Environments Neal-Schuman Publishers (2007) was published concurrently in the United Kingdom by Facet Publishers (2007).
Genealogical Research on Web was published in 2002. How to Find Medical Information on the Internet: A Print and Online Tutorial for the Health Care Professional and Consumer (2000) (Library Solutions Press) and Building Electronic Library Collections: The Essential Guide to Selection Criteria and Core Collections (Neal-Schuman) were both published in 2000.
Diane's first book The Internet Trainer's Guide was published in 1995. The Internet Trainer's Total Solution Guide was published in 1997. She has also co-authored with her husband Michael Kovacs, Cybrarians Guide to Successful Internet Programs and Services which was published by Neal-Schuman in 1997.
Diane Kovacs is the 2000 recipient of the "Documents to the People" award from the Government Documents Roundtable of the American Library Association. She was also the recipient of the Apple Corporation Library's, Internet Citizen Award for 1992 and was the University of Illinois Graduate School of Library and Information Science Alumni Association's first recipient of the Leadership Award in 1996.
Diane received an M.S. in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois in 1989 and an M.Ed. in Instructional Technology from Kent State University in 1993. She has a B.A. in Anthropology also from the University of Illinois, 1985.
