Dates	Weeks	Unit	Readings	Activity
4-10 February	1	Introduction	.	.
11-24 February	2-3	Unit 1	Read Palloff and Pratt, Building Learning Communities in Cyberspace Creating community online: negotiating students' needs and desires in cyberspace	Autobiographical sketch Characteristics of your own students
25 February-10 March	4-5	Unit 2	Introduction to VARK Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligence: Intelligence in Seven Steps Multiple Intelligence Theory Theories of Learning, Memory and Cognition Developing Higher Order Thinking Skills and Multiple Intelligences Learning: The Critical Technology Constructivism and related sites Constructivism Funderstanding's page of 12 Theories on How People Learn Explorations in Learning and Instruction: The Theory into Practice Database	Take the VARK Questionnaire: How do I learn best? Position essays and debate about constructivism.
11-24 March	6-7	Unit 3	Readings: Ko and Rossen, Teaching Online: A Practical Guide, pp. 104-130, 193-272 (Chapters 6, 9-12). Managing online instruction The role of the online instructor/facilitator How to teach online: Migrating terrestrial teaching talents to the virtual classroom Stave off these seven pitfalls of distance learning	Write a brief "Introduction" to your online course or module for students. Develop a short outline of your course or module. Discuss a hodge-podge of issues during both weeks of this 2-week unit Midsemester self- evaluation of progress and formative course evaluation. [Individuals post contract for group project in their group's workroom]
25 March-14 April (Spring Break 1-5 April)	8-9	Unit 4	.	Design at least two detailed teaching strategies/learning activities. Review a classmate's course introduction, and objectives. Design a detailed learning activity that will meet that person's course objectives.
15-28 April	10-11	Unit 5	.	Upload learning activities to server. Design interactivity. Discuss uploading experience.
29 April-12 May	12-13	Unit 6	.	Try out the learning activities that your classmates designed. Critique learning experiences. Discuss. (Note: Group project overlaps with Unit 6)
6-19 May	13-14	Group Project	.	Post group project Send self/peer evals to instructor Discuss project
13-19 May		Summary and Evaluation	.	Summarize what you learned, and evaluate your participation. Evaluate course and instructor.