EDU 366 Preparing Educators for Virtual Contexts

Prepares candidates to understand, create and disseminate electronic tutorials or lessons for virtual learners integrating best practices in virtual teaching. It includes participation in integrated field experiences teaching in both synchronous and asynchronous environments utilizing established partnerships with both public and private schools. The course includes an examination of theoretical of online lesson design and delivery with the theory "Learning By Design (Koehler and Mishra, 2005)". Candidates will apply appropriate instructional strategies and models of design in the online learning environment with NETS-T and iNACOL Standards and intentional and systematic practice of the TPACK framework (Koehler and Mishra, 2008). 

Subject matter of this course, divided into main units (without descriptive detail), and listed in order of presentation: 

1. Overview of K-12 Online Education 
2. Principles of Online Instruction
3. Tools for Teaching Online 
4. Building an Online Community 
5. Supporting all Learners
6. Digital Citizenship

Credits

3

Prerequisite

Education Major