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| Course Title: Advanced Online Learning
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Course Introduction:
This course will center upon three basic principles of advanced online learning. These principles are defined as:
- Learning is co-created
- Tools are multi-use
- Sharing is essential
I separate out advanced online learning and traditional online learning because we can no longer be satisfied with doing read and respond activities within our online courses. For too long, we have relied on content heavy online resources. The purpose of this course is to ensure that we are focused on the individual participant and his or her learning rather than on simply transmitting what it is that we want them to know. To state the obvious: the ability to know and the breadth and depth of that available knowledge has grown beyond our comprehension. We must build better nets. This course will go about building those nets and also how to cast them out.
With that in mind, the content for this course is not established before we begin. We will be exploring the tools, creating the conversation, and inspiring the community of practice necessary to push the boundaries of Online Learning to the point at which it becomes Learning.
Course Objectives:
- Participants will learn how to create media-rich learning objects and assignments and embed them into an online course.
- Participants will learn how to join a walled garden learning environment (Moodle) to social networks and the open web.
- Participants will learn how to create engaging and collaborative learning activities for their online learning stakeholders.
Course Format:
This course is broken up into a series of modules/topics that we will be building together. This content will be supplemented by the following tools:
- A Twitter Backchannel (#synclinkpost)
- A Dropbox Folder synced with all participants
- A Posterous Blog
- A Drop.io Account
- Collaborative Google Documents
- Google Voice accounts
- Disqus Conversations
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| 1 | The Space Between Content and Submit:
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| 2 | Meeting Participants where they are:
 Our Drop.io file- Jen's sample
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- Jeff's voice message (drop.io/mr_entner)
- Goodwin
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