Teaching Engineering Online

This course is designed for graduate students or professionals who either are teaching technical topics online or want to be prepared to do so. The course is organized in three modules.  The first module covers fundamental concepts important when developing and teaching an online course including designing the course, creating a community of learning, using an online learning management system, integrating multimedia and virtual sessions into a course, helping students succeed in online courses, making course materials accessible, and assessing student learning.  In the second module, each student will design an online instructional unit on a narrowly focused topic that the student knows well for an audience the student expects to teach. Students will be guided through the course design, adding one new feature at a time after a quick review of a fundamental principle.  The third module will be very similar to the second module except students will be designing an online instructional unit for a laboratory course.