I just started another online course. This one in entitled “Facilitating Online Learning”. I’m a little surprised to tell you the truth regarding the layout of this entire course. It is being completely presented in a manner I have never seen before through 10 other courses on various platforms. I’m most surprised or taken back by the fact that a course that is about facilitating online courses begins by having the students look through a 103 page study guide.
I’m open to trying to figure this all out, but from my recent studies and information I have collected at a recent conference this almost seems backwards from what is normally expected of online courses. By this I mean that information is normally broken out into several components so that you can quickly get to the info at any given time instead of having to flip through a large document. I am curious to ask why you choose the format that you have instead of individual accessible sections.
Please understand this is not a critique (not on day one) but more so trying to gain knowledge as to the methodology. As I stated this is the first time a course has been presented this way to me and it seems more of a paper based course instead of online info. I have a feeling I’m “reading” too much into all this as the ideas on online collaboration and discussion does represent the new trend in elearning.
I’m curious if anyone else in the class is surprised by the format/layout/documents or if I am the only one that feels a little out of place? It seems completely oxymoronic to teach a course about online facilitating by teaching it with a book.
We’ll see what the teacher and students think. I may have put a target on my forehead day one. May be a little harder to get that A+ in this class.