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Online and Hybrid Course Development
Diablo Valley College supports distance education, providing support and training for our instructors in three significant ways:
- Offering Flex activities and Staff Development Workshops during the Fall and Spring semesters
- Offering the annual Summer Technology Institute held in the first week of June
- Providing continual campus upgrades, innovations, and new technology for faculty (i.e., e-packs from book publishers, new servers and more bandwidth for LAN and WAN activities, and streaming audio and video)
We do this because of the continuing demand by students for this type of course delivery. If you are interested in adding technology into your on-ground classroom, then consider what many instructors have already done:
- a WebCT Communication Suite: Email, Discussion Boards, Chat, Whiteboard
- a WebCT Shell or Faculty Home Page in order to list: documents like assignments, syllabus, weekly announcements.
- an E-pack: which contains a range of supplemental material to nearly entire textbooks in html format for students to access at anytime.
The inclusion of technology blurs the line between a traditional on-ground classroom and an online or hybrid classroom significantly and can prove to be a useful way to reinvent the teaching that you already do. Neal Skapura (nskapura@dvc.edu or ext. 2878) is available to assist you with conversions of course content, discussions about online pedagogy, and working timelines (one-semester prep is best); additionally, the following links serve as useful entry points when preparing to teach an online or hybrid course or to develop ways to include technology in your on-ground course:
- Teaching and Technology
- Developing Online Pedagogy
- Online Teaching Checklist
- Online Course Input Form
- Online Community Resources
- WebCT Account Request
- Online Course Guidelines
- National American Council for Online Learning (K-12)
- The Sloan Consortium: Making the Grade: Online Education in the United States, 2006
- The Chronicle of Higher Education - search for online course or distance education
- Inside Higher Ed - search for online course of distance education
