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LEARNING OBJECTIVES This one-day workshop utilizes the Course Management System (CMS),  Moodle, and is designed to provide participants with practical tools for planning and designing a high-quality online course. After completing the workshop, participants will have a better understanding of the current standards for designing an effective online course and will apply such standards in planning and developing their own courses. Participants will learn how to design and manage a course through real-life examples and hands-on exercises.

PRESENTERS

Paula Thornhill is the Electronic Learning Facilitator for the University of Louisiana at Monroe (ULM) and a Certified Moodle Trainer. She works with faculty to design and deliver courses for the online environment and played a key role in ULM’s migration to Moodle.  Paula earned her B.A. in Speech Education and M.Ed. in Education with a concentration in Instructional Technology. She is currently pursuing a doctorate in Instructional Technology and Distance Education.

Moustapha Diack is affiliated with the doctoral program in Science/Mathematics Education (SMED) at Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Diack is recipient of the International MERLOT Innovation Award 2009 -and- the 2009 Southern University Teacher of the Year Award. He is a Past-President (2006/2009) of the Louisiana Academy of Sciences and also Director of the MERLOT Africa Network (MAN). His current research is in the areas of Open Education Resources (OER) and Open Access (OA) as well as the integration and assessment of virtual learning environments (VLE). Diack is Quality Matters/MarylandOnline certified train the trainer  (TTT).

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TARGET AUDIENCE

This workshop targets all educational professionals including educational researchers, educational trainers, faculty members, and teachers from the secondary and higher education sectors.  Discipline communities targeted include Biology, Business, Chemistry, Engineering, Health Sciences, History, Information Technology, Mathematics, Music, Physics, Psychology, Statistics, Teacher Education, Teaching and Technology, and World Languages

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PEDAGOGICAL INTEGRATION OF MOODLE

Presenters: Moustapha  Diack & Paula Thornhill

Participants in this workshop will learn how to build a course.  Topics covered include: getting around in Moodle, deciding on a course format, customizing the course page, and adding resources and activities (with a view toward learning what is available and brainstorming possible uses).  This workshop assumes that participants have had only minimal prior Moodle experience. We will:

• Present an overview of Moodle as a virtual learning environment and tour  the Moodle interface; Discuss the implications of using an Open Source CMS application in your institution
• Setup courses – each participant will have their own course to experiment with and will enroll in other's courses as students

• Customize the Weekly/Module outline to display course components using your syllabus as a template
• Course Resources – uploading files and presenting as resources within the course outline
• Assignments – participants will create an assignment exercise and write directive instructions about how to complete the work
• Discussion forum – create a forum and 'seed' with an appropriate question. Add clear instructions about what postings and replies are required.
• Add a dialogue or chat activity to receive comments from your 'students'

Having created a week's worth of courses, participants will log in as students to each other's courses and engage in the various activities. Using the chat or dialogue activity, participants will offer comments directly to the course creator about the course design.

CAMPUS TRANSITION FROM BLACKBOARD TO MOODLE LEARNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

Presenter: Paula Thornhill

This is an interactive presentation with Q&A focusing on best practices for institutional transition from Blackboard to Moodle.  It will highlight a case study from the University of Louisiana at Monroe (ULM).

SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY ONLINE

Presenter: Dr. Caroline Person/ Mr. Jerald Horne

The Director of the Southern University Online will discuss and share need-to-know tool sets for supporting Distance Education at SUBR.

CONTACT THE HOSTESS/VENUE
Ms. Cher Crockett is current President of the SUBR Graduate Students Association and a doctoral student in the Ph.D. program in Science/Math Education at Southern University A& M College. Her research interests include online professional development & virtual learning environments. 

Phone: 225-771-2085

Email: FDL.southernuniversity@gmail.com

RESOURCES WE SUGGEST:

| SUBR | ULM | SU ONLINE | LA MOODLE GROUP | MOODLE ORG | MOODLE TUTORIALS | SLOAN C EFFECTIVE PRACTICES | SREB and Online Learning |

RESEARCH:
Integrated Course Design

Online Course Preference (Powerpoint)

LOUISIANA HIGHLIGHT - Louisiana Moodle Group

• The Louisiana Moodle Users Group is hosted on a server provided by the SELSC. You can create a Moodle account by going to http://lamug.selsc.net/, click on Login (located at the top right portion of the screen), click on New Account, fill in the required information, and click Create my new account.
• Unverity of New Orleans Virtual Campus . Second Life is a 3-D virtual world where students and faculty can create virtual identities or avatars and interact in a manner very similar to a traditional classroom. Second Life classes are taught in real-time on the UNO island in Second Life. 

THANK YOU AND VIRTUAL GIFT

Project "Models of K-20 Online Professional Development: Integrating Virtual Learning Environments and eLearning Repositories" Funded through the Louisiana SELECT Grant
Louisana Board of Regents

Site Design/content:M. Diack

College of Engineering - ROOM 115
PBS Pinchback Hall
Southern University and A&M College
Baton Rouge, 70813

Saturday, November 14, 2009 from 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM (CT)

SUBR FACULTY DEVELOPMENT LAB