Collaborative Communities

EDUC 761, Spring 2013

UW-Stout, online

Professor Kay Lehmann, instructor

Course Description

This course is about facilitating and building an e-learning community and provides hands-on practice using asynchronous communication technologies. Improve your time/workload management techniques including organization of email, class environment and time-saving strategies for working with difficult students in the online classroom. You will actively facilitate and explore questioning skills, conflict resolution, netiquette, and collaborative learning through problem solving scenarios, simulations, and online discussions.

Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:

  1. Develop a personal philosophy that reflects learning theory and guides online instruction that creates an environment for reflection, critical thinking, and collaboration.
  2. Analyze the role of the online facilitator and develop strategies to implement, encourage and manage interaction in the online classroom.
  3. Demonstrate appropriate planning considerations, guidelines and procedures to establish a productive, engaging e-learning environment.
  4. Frame critical thinking questions and design discussion prompts that lead to effective learning in the online classroom.
  5. Apply understanding of learner differences when facilitating an online community of practice.
  6. Evaluate application ideas for online discussions using recognized criteria and professional references and apply current research about successful teaching strategies to guide students before, during and after case scenarios, brainstorming, role playing, and reaction postings.
  7. Develop a facilitation eportfolio of useful tools, tips, and facilitation techniques as well as the beginnings of 70-30 course preparation developed during the course.

Alignment with Teaching Standards

Course objectives are aligned with the following:

International Society for Technology in Education, National Educational Technology Standards, (NETS-T) III, VI

(EDUC 761)

© Deborah Kabler 2013