On Friday, February 10 at 11 am, the College of Arts and Sciences Office of Distance Education will host a Teaching Forum to discuss gauging student workload, planning for an appropriate pacing of course content, and other aspects of designing online courses that are challenging, yet accessible and transparent.
Within the College of Arts and Sciences, online and hybrid courses are taught in several different lengths of offering. Making design choices about anticipated student workload, and how that will translate to an estimated weekly work time that aligns with the appropriate amount for the course credit hours, is an essential part of developing a plan of instruction. Faculty from the College of Arts and Sciences and the ASC Distance Education Coordinator will share their experiences designing and reviewing courses with student workload estimation in mind, and discuss balancing direct and indirect instruction to create an effective and cohesive learning experience.
Anticipated Outcomes – By the end of the session, participants will be able to…
- Delineate the amount of work that is prescribed as appropriate for a course’s credit value and length of offering
- Identify specific resources that can assist in estimating student workload
- Understand how issues of access, accessibility, and diverse learning communities intersect with how students experience the assigned work in a course
- Assess one’s courses with a lens that provides clarity on how to think about structuring students’ time and effort in an online course.
Panelists:
Michelle Everson (Department of Statistics)
Christopher A Reed (Department of History
Ila Nagar (Department of Near Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures)
Jeremie Smith (ASC Office of Distance Education)
REGISTER HERE
This event will utilize auto captioning, if you require an accommodation such as live captioning or interpretation to participate in this event, please email Jeremie Smith (smith.12199@osu.edu). Requests made by 1-30-2023 will help us to provide seamless access.
