WebCT Workshop Development
- 2. One of the earliest courses I developed was a faculty training course for WebCT Campus Edition.
- 3. This course was used to web-enhance a face-to-face course for faculty who knew nothing about course management software.
- 4. Its simple design and basic instructions guided faculty through the navigation of the course and getting their computer up to snuff.
- 5. We worked on the basics of instructional design to build a solid base for the course.
- 6. After the success of WebCT 101, I developed WebCT 201 to help web-enhanced experienced faculty develop hybrid courses.
- 7. The course design remains simple, but a pre-course survey helps faculty realize how much they already knew.
- 8. This introductory module reviewed the course materials and expectations.
- 9. I used Course Genie to build much of the course content to show faculty a strategy other than Word for developing content.
- 10. The course highlighted more complex communication tools, such as chat and student homepages.
- 11. Of course, the next logical step was to create WebCT 301, an online course to assist faculty in creating their own online courses.
- 12. In this course, the faculty took turns in the driver ’s seat. Each week one member would be responsible for guiding the discussions & keeping things moving along. The goal was to give them guided practice in the most commonly used asynchronous tool.
- 13. The course also focused on tools outside of WebCT, such as blogs, wikis, and podcasts.