From 05ff6390fe67df35cccaaec5c17d2ecd5477b5bc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Niema Moshiri Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2024 15:33:53 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] updates --- teach_online/academic_integrity.md | 5 +---- teach_online/materials.md | 35 ++++++++++++++++++++++++------ 2 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) diff --git a/teach_online/academic_integrity.md b/teach_online/academic_integrity.md index 97230c1..103bb93 100644 --- a/teach_online/academic_integrity.md +++ b/teach_online/academic_integrity.md @@ -12,13 +12,10 @@ but this chapter will be structured in a way that is hopefully agnostic to speci This chapter draws heavily from {cite:t}`eaton_second_2024`, a resource I *strongly* recommend for anyone curious about Academic Integrity. -## Terms and Concepts +## Deterrence vs. Detection Before discussing *any* techniques for maintaining Academic Integrity, we first need to present some foundational terms and concepts. - -### Deterrence vs. Detection - There are two key terms that describe two closely-related yet distinct concepts: **deterrence** and **detection**. {term}`Deterrence` is the act of correctly identify cases of cheating diff --git a/teach_online/materials.md b/teach_online/materials.md index 0e170a3..e54cde0 100644 --- a/teach_online/materials.md +++ b/teach_online/materials.md @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# Creating Instructional Materials +# Instructional Materials ```{note} Source Code: [`teach_online/materials.md`](https://github.com/niemasd/How-to-Teach-Online/blob/main/teach_online/materials.md) @@ -23,8 +23,11 @@ We want to emphasize that much of this advice can be used across multiple modali ## Videos Many online courses utilize videos to deliver course content. +This section will not be a full-fledged guide on how to create instructional videos, +but rather, +it will provide an overview of things to consider when creating instructional videos. Broadly speaking, -there are three extreme "types" of instructional videos one can create: +there are three categories of instructional videos one can create: 1. Recording of a person presenting a topic * This is also known as the "talking head" video style @@ -68,11 +71,29 @@ While they're likely *far* too long to use as-is, all hope is not lost: recordings of a longer traditional lecture can be split into smaller chunks, potentially with added annotations and enhancements, -to be used as shorter instructional videos in online learning. - -## Text - -TODO +to be used as shorter instructional videos in an online, +hybrid, or flipped course {cite:p}`minnes_podcast_2019`. + +## Online Text + +As mentioned in the previous section, +despite their popularity, +instructional videos can be difficult to properly design, +expensive to produce nicely, +and challenging to update or modify in the future {cite:p}`compeau_life_2015,minnes_podcast_2019`. +Online text-based instructional materials can accompany or even potentially *replace* videos: +they are relatively inexpensive to create +(especially in the modern era, +in which self-hosting is relatively simple, +even for folks without significant technical expertise), +and they are extremely easy to update in the future. + +The simplest way to write text-based instructional materials is to use a formatted text editing tool with a +[WYSIWYG](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WYSIWYG) ("What You See Is What You Get", pronounced "wiz-ee-wig") interface. +For example, you can use [Microsoft Word](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Word) or equivalent +(e.g. [Google Docs](https://docs.google.com/), [LibreOffice Writer](https://www.libreoffice.org/discover/writer/), etc.) +to write a formatted text document (e.g. a DOCX file), +which can be exported to a PDF file. MAITS