Panama

Online Teaching for Adult Learners

Course Description

This course emphasizes andragogy and best practice in online teaching, analyzing online teaching tools, planning, facilitating, and assessing collaborative and interactive e-learning experiences, and gaining practical experience teaching online.

In this course we will..

  • Explain adult learning theories and identify instructional strategies for effective adult learning.
  • Identify attributes of quality in online courses and teaching and evaluate online courses with the attributes.
  • Analyze strengths and weaknesses ofonline teaching tools for different instructional purposes.
  • Practice video presence to improve delivery and interaction in a video-based online learning environment.
  • Design and develop an original online lesson in a learning management system.
  • Analyze strengths and weaknesses of hybrid/blended courses.