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Learning Module
Teaching in an online environment requires careful planning and special consideration for setting the right atmosphere. In order to provide the material that you wish to cover, learning modules are created. A module is a packet of information designed to meet specific learning goals and engage students in a relevant way. As a part of this course, we are exploring the Canvas LMS (Learning Management System). Canvas can do some pretty cool things and they are happy to tell you about it.
Creating an Online Environment
In a traditional classroom the teacher helps create an environment suitable for the content and the learning to happen. In an online environment careful consideration must be given to the ways in which students, teachers and the content will interact with each other. To do this Garrison et. al (2000) suggest consideration of how the "Community of Inquiry" is made up of three overlapping areas: Social, Cognitive, Teaching Presences.
The first step in developing the online environment happened before creating an online community at all. Selection of a topic to deliver a 1-2 learning module was easy for me based on recent face-to-face classroom experiences. I have been looking for ways to help students develop their social emotional intelligence through exercises designed to give them the language and experience with coping with stress. From here the difficult task of creating a module storyboard and then blueprint begins.
References
[CanvasLMS]. (2015, September 21). The Cool Things You Can Do With Canvas [Video File]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdDS6gVdI1 Garrison, D. R., Anderson, T., & Archer, W. (2000). Critical inquiry in a text-based environment: Computer conferencing in higher education model. The Internet and Higher Education, 2(2-3), 87–105. Retrieved from http://cde.athabascau.ca/coi_site/documents/Garrison_Anderson_Archer_Critical_Inquiry_model.pdf
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