Course Syllabus
eLearning Miami’s experienced team of instructional designers offer extensive support in course design and delivery through a blended workshop experience offered each semester for Miami Faculty. Whether your course is offered online, or hybrid, we can help you develop the skills to offer a quality learning experience for your students.
Through the ELM workshop, you will:
- Develop a high quality, engaging course experience for your students
- Align your teaching goals with student success
- Collaborate with peers in a learning community
- Grow skills in teaching with technology
- Evaluate effective teaching strategies
- Earn a stipend for your initial development of the course, and a stipend for revision
Major Topics
- Student-Centered Design
- Online Quality Standards
- Course Delivery Strategies
- Authentic Assessment
- Content Curation
- Multimedia Creation
- Miami’s Learning Technology Ecosystem
- Self-Support
- Student Support
Your Commitment
Faculty is responsible for the following during the workshop and course development process
- Course alignment and design document
- Course content and learning resources
- Student assessments
- If you need professional produced video initiate (and prepare materials, schedule recording session to allow for editing and approvals)
- Make and keep appointments with instructional designer
- Complete all assignment activities during the workshop by deadline
- Complete the workshop portion of the course at grade of 80% or higher
- Keep your ELM Partner Designer informed of all course scheduling changes
- Future and additional courses please contact eLearning Miami at elearningmiami@miamioh.edu or 513-529-6068
Our Committment
Instructional designer is responsible for the following during the workshop, course development process, and course revision process
- Course alignment and design review
- Make recommendations for course development and review
- “Teach you to fish.” Help you help yourself.
About your Facilitators
Sarah Frick
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Cyndi Govreau
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Tom Luo
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Elizabeth Farrar
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Amy Liu
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Rachel Valerio
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The 10-week course design workshop provides all support needed to design and teach an online course, including Instructional Design support, online resources, a cohort of colleagues, professional videography and support for designing accessible materials. The workshop is in a 10-week hybrid format, with collaborative online course activities and scheduled face-to-face sessions to build community, brainstorm, and allow you to share your ideas and challenges with your colleagues.
Expect to spend up to five hours a week on workshop activities.
Just like in a traditional course, if it seems like you will be falling behind during the first two weeks of the workshop, you will be asked to consider delaying participation until the next semester.
If at any time during the course you are falling more than two weeks behind in the course work you run the risk of not receiving payment.
Instructional Designer Meetings
You will meet with your assigned ID at least once every two weeks of the workshop experience, for a total of five meeting. Your ID will mark when you have completed the meetings.
Course Design Project
A three-stage assignment, your course design and alignment planning will allow you to iterate ideas and prepare you to deliver a course that aligns with your goals and objectives.
Prototype Project
A three-stage assignment, this project challenges you to create a full module in your course, share it with your peers, and provide structured feedback.
Discussions
Discussion assessments allow you to share your understanding and/or examples of concepts you are exploring with your peers and provide valuable feedback. All discussion assignments require an initial post and at least two replies to your peers.
Building Block Activities
Multiple required activities presented to self-assess your understanding of material and scaffold your learning.
Your work will be checked for timeliness and ongoing constructive feedback will be given by your assigned ELM Staff Instructional Designer. You are expected to adhere to the dues dates of the assignments in the workshop so that your peers can benefit from the group collaboration efforts.
Just like in a traditional course, if it seems like you will be falling behind during the first two weeks of the workshop, you will be asked to consider delaying participation until the next semester.
If at any time during the course you are falling more than two weeks behind in the course work you run the risk of not receiving payment.
The course is set up like a traditional course with graded assignments and weighted grades. You must complete the workshop portion of the course at grade of 80% or higher to ensure that you are meeting your commitment of effective engagement with your colleagues and is part of the requirements for your stipend payment.
Weighted Assignment Categories:
- Instructional Designer Meetings = 20%
- Course Design Project = 20%
- Prototype Project = 20%
- Discussions = 20%
- Building Block Activities = 20%
Late work
Submissions turned in late are accepted with a deduction of 20% of the total possible points a day.
Cohort Payment Requirements
Per your contract and ELM Cohort commitment, the following milestones dictate your payment of the stipend. Your partner Instructional Designer will sign off on your milestones.
$2000 payment made after the following is achieved:
- Participate and engage fully in the online workshop course portion of the Cohort, receiving a grade of at least 80%
- Design your course to a level of 90% readiness.
$500 payment made after the following is achieved:
- Participate and engage in the mid-semester Student Focus Group conducted during the first semester your new course is taught
- Make an improvement/revision plan for your course after reflection on your first semester, and share with Instructional Designer
At Miami University there are two core principles: love and honor. Those principles should not only be applied in the face-to-face classroom environment but in the online course space as well. Diversity has many manifestations, including diversity of thought, opinion, and values. We encourage all learners to be polite and respectful of that diversity and to refrain from inappropriate or offensive comments. If the inappropriate or offensive content is either emailed or posted on the class site, the teacher may recommend college disciplinary action. Students guilty of academic misconduct, either directly or indirectly through participation or assistance, are subject to disciplinary action through the regular procedures of the student’s home institution. Learners, as well as faculty, should be guided by common sense and basic etiquette. Criticism should be presented in a positive light. The following are good guidelines to follow:
- Never post harassing, threatening, or embarrassing comments.
- Never post content that is harmful, abusive; racially, ethnically, or religiously offensive; vulgar; sexually explicit, or otherwise potentially offensive.
- Never post, transmit, promote, or distribute content that is known to be illegal.
- If you disagree with someone, respectfully respond to the subject, not the person.
Remember that “tone” can usually be detected accurately in verbal communication, but often can be misunderstood in electronic communication. Because of this phenomenon, we encourage you to err on the side of politeness.
*Adapted from Regents Online Campus Collaborative
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