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Interested in Teaching Online?
Here are several suggestions to get you started:

• It is recommended that you have taught the class for at least one semester in the traditional classroom setting, and have worked out the bugs in your instructional design.
• What activities, presentations, multimedia materials, assignments, have helped students learn, and how can you do that Online?
• Sometimes there are ready made support materials for an Online class already in place and you simply have to arrange the pieces according to your instructional plan and learning objectives.
• You might contact the publishers representative of your favorite textbook and see if there are multimedia ancillaries that accompany the book: CD-ROMs, a textbook web site with links that support the textbook.
• There are also ways of using multimedia resources on the web to enhance class activities.
• How do you want to use the Internet?
• An entire online course
• Enhance your on-campus classwith Internet Research assignments
• A Course Website

Instructional Design Phase

As you may already know, developing a new class of any kind requires a period where you "think out" how you are going to organize the course components. And since you may be using new technology for the first time there will also be a certain learning curve associated with becoming familiar with how to use the technology tools. This is central to course development, because you have to know what functions you can use and in what manner. Planning to work in an electronic classroom and office. Let's call this the Instructional Design Phase of course development.

• The Future of Online Learning - Excellent link concerning Theory, Evaluation, and Design of Web Based Instruction.
• A sampler of Online classes offered by Community Colleges:

• Center for Advanced Technology in Education - Santa Rosa Junior College
• Cerro Coso Community College Online
• DeAnza Distance Education
• Chemetka Community College Courses Online
• Global Access - Foothill College Online Courses

Clearing Houses for information about Online classes:

• DET/CHE Web Servers - The Directors of Educational Technology for California Higher Education (DET/CHE) have an invaluable web site for information about web development, distance learning, educational technology, copyrights and fair use, and a directory of community colleges, UC and CSU campuses, California associations and government that use educational technology.
• California Virtual Campus - You can't consider teaching Online until you explore this web site. CVC brokers open learning courses from all three tiers of California Higher Education. Determine if a course like yours already exists online in California. Go to the class web site and review it. Note what courses in your subject matter area exist, and go visit them. Make bookmarks and notes.
• World Lecture Hall (WLH) - Also look for classes in your discipline at this web site. The World Lecture Hall contains links to pages created by faculty worldwide who are using the Web to deliver class materials.

Now that you have reviewed some examples of Online Classes, What Do You Think?

• Can you visualize your course being presented online after reviewing the above links to Online Classes, and the web?
• How would you and your students benefit if you created another version of an existing Online course?
• Online courses serve the residential on-campus students looking for flexible and convenient way to take another class without having to come to campus with all that entails.
• You might want to consider putting one of your special interest classes online. One of those classes that you love to teach because of the content or the process of exploring the topic.
• You might design a class that provides online basic skills development, English as a Second Language, Mathematics, Tutoring, or Online Writing Lab.
• Perhaps your class meets a transfer need or fulfills a general education or multicultural requirement.

What next?

Included here are only some of the major abbreviations that you may see in emails or used in online chat.

• Internet Communication

Stand-out Examples of Online Classes

You may be restricted from entering password protected web pages, but often you can see enough of the course organization to stimulate your thinking of how to implement your class, accommodating your style and subject matter. Expect to see the creativity and personality of each professor emerge from their web site. Their sophistication with web authoring and management software is also a factor to consider.

• Chris Rubio (ARC) English 1A
• John Suler's Teaching Clinical Psychology Site

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