effective time management strategies to teach online
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Effective Time Management Strategies to
Teach Online Without Being Up at 3 AM
or Providing 24/7 Support (Webinar)
Florence Martin
Instructional Systems Technology
UNC Charlotte
About Me
Florence Martin, Ph.D.Associate Professor & Program DirectorInstructional Systems Technology
Research
Online Learning Environments
• Elearning
• Synchronous Online Learning
• Mobile Learning
• Learning Analytics
Teaching
• EIST 6150 – Design, Development and Evaluation of online learning systems
• EIST 6130 – Instructional Multimedia Development
• EIST 6110 – Instructional Design
UNCC IST Program
• M.Ed. in Instructional Systems Technology (36 hours)
• Graduate Certificate in Instructional Systems Technology (18
hours)
http://edld.uncc.edu/programs/instructional-systems-technology-program
Online Learning and Teaching
Concentration
This Online Learning and Teaching
concentration is for those interested
in the development and management
of online learning systems.
EIST 6100 Foundations of Instructional Systems Technology
EIST 6110 Instructional Design
EIST 6120 Current Trends in Instructional System Technology
EIST 6130 Instructional Multimedia Development
EIST 6150 Design, Development, and Evaluation of Online Learning Systems
EIST 6101 Learning Principles in Instructional Systems Technology
http://edld.uncc.edu/sites/edld.uncc.edu/files/media/OLT_ISTFlyer.pdf
Poll
• About how many hours per week do you
spend teaching “an” online course?
A. Less than 5 hours
B. Between 5 and 10 hours
C. Between 10 and 15 hours
D. Between 15 and 20 hours
E. More than 20 hours
Teaching Online Concerns
• What are your workload concerns with
teaching online?
Time sinks of teaching online
• Establishing instructor presence
• Individualized, timely feedback
• Creating video-based content and
interactions
Time Management Strategies
1. Course Organization
2. Course Orientation
3. Record and Re-use
4. Open Educational Resources
5. Responding to student questions
6. Facilitating discussions
7. Grading/Feedback
8. Automated LMS Features
9. Keep notes – Continually Improve
10. Blocking out time
1 Course Organization
Course Organization
• Keep your course design simple and
consistent which avoids student
questions/confusion
User-friendly design
Easy to Navigate
Customized Navigation Menu
Consistent Modules
2 Course Orientation
Course Orientation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9F39i9dRcc&feature=youtu.be
Getting Started Quiz to test course
policies
Response Times provided in
Syllabus
Clear and Interactive Syllabus
3 Record and Re-Use
Instructor generated material
Recording Videos
• Do not include dates/assignment specifics
in recording
• Focus on the content
• Choose the right tool to record
Tools to record
• Camtasia
• Jing
• Screen Cast O Matic
4 Open Educational Resources
OER Commons
Re-usable Learning Objects
• http://edutechwiki.unige.ch/en/Learning_o
bjects_repositories
5 Responding to Student
Questions
Being efficient
• Contact the Instructor Forum
• Q&A
• Screencast if you want to show how to do
something
• If question is already answered, refer them
to those questions
Multiple Ways for students to
contact you
Provide more than one way for students to contact you with order of preference
Forums
Contact the Instructor Forum
Announcements Forum
Webex or Office Hours
uncc.webex.com/meet/username
6 Facilitating Discussions
Student facilitated discussions
Create groups
• Create groups if you have more than 10
students
Subject line
• Establish subject line for posts
7 Grading/Feedback
Set grading schedule
• Grade within 7 days if you have weekly
modules or before when the next
assignment/project is submitted
• Be prompt in grading when assignments
build on each other
Clear Rubrics
Using the same criteria to grade and provide feedback
Use Technology for
Feedback/Grading
Work smarter, not harder at grading
• Keep comments and announcements from previous semesters.
• Customize feedback comments for each student/course section;
• However there is no reason to type out everything again if some comments remain the same from student to student or section to section. Adapt or reuse them next semester.
Peer Feedback
• Establish peer feedback activities using
rubrics or checklists to provide an
opportunity for students to revise and
improve assignments
High Enrollment Courses
• High-enrollment courses especially may
need to use fewer personalized grading
assignments
Mid-semester & End-of semester feedback
8 Automated LMS Features
Scheduling Announcements
LMS Rubrics
9 Keep Notes
Keep notes – continually improve
• Record notes each week about revisions
for the next semester.
• Some fixes like broken links can be done
on the fly during the current run, but
others, like the rewriting of a section, need
to wait until the end of the semester.
• At the end of the semester, reflect on the
notes and adjust as needed.
Notepad
Contact the Instructor Forum Q’s
External Review
• Have other faculty review and provide
feedback
10 Blocking out time
Blocking out time
• 40% Teaching
• 40% Research
• 20% Service
• 2 days/week for teaching
UNCC IST Program
• M.Ed. in Instructional Systems Technology (36 hours)
• Graduate Certificate in Instructional Systems Technology (18
hours)
http://edld.uncc.edu/programs/instructional-systems-technology-program
Online Learning and Teaching
Concentration
This Online Learning and Teaching
concentration is for those interested
in the development and management
of online learning systems.
EIST 6100 Foundations of Instructional Systems Technology
EIST 6110 Instructional Design
EIST 6120 Current Trends in Instructional System Technology
EIST 6130 Instructional Multimedia Development
EIST 6150 Design, Development, and Evaluation of Online Learning Systems
EIST 6101 Learning Principles in Instructional Systems Technology
http://edld.uncc.edu/sites/edld.uncc.edu/files/media/OLT_ISTFlyer.pdf