Moving Your Course Online
by Evelyn Beck It will take longer than you think. That’s some of the wisdom offered by one course designer about the process of moving your traditional classroom on-line. Cynthia McIntyre, an on-line designer and instructor for The Concord Consortium in Concord, Mass., finds that new on-line teachers are surprised by the amount of time involved not only in creating a course, but also in facilitating it. In an attempt to quantify that excess, David Mogk, a professor of geology at Montana State University-Bozeman, suggests in some teaching tips he has posted at http://www. scienceteacher.org, that on-line instructors should take […]