onlinelearningcoursedesign

I'm working on a new pathophysiology course and have been making more animated videos. Here is one of my new videos on hearing loss. 

  As I was learning to use Adobe Captivate to produce interactive activities for my online courses, I decided to push the envelope per se and attempt to produce a game.  After about 40-50 hours of work, the Circulatory System game was complete. The goal of this game is for students to learn the human circulatory system by navigating through it in order to find hidden robots and scientists. The game essentially maps out the entire circulatory system as arteries and veins are represented by "hallways" in a science fiction lab setting. The game includes a screen that tallies how many robots and scientists were found and the player is rewarded with a success screen when finishing the game.  From a Captivate perspective, the game includes a lot of advanced actions and variables to keep track of the player's path and actions. I really found these to be a challenge in getting everything to work.  My efforts in developing this game and many more interactive activities was re...

 Just finished grading one batch of assignments and thought I would do a bit of Googling to find some relevant research regarding online course design before my upcoming Zoom lecture.  During this time of Covid 19, a lot of us have been extremely busy in converting face-face courses to hybrid or online formats. Sometimes, it is difficult to avoid "dumping" PowerPoints and notes used in a face-face class into an LMS, especially when working under time constraints.  My search yielded some good results. One of which is this graphic regarding student preferences in online course modalities.  I've been a big proponent of incorporating multimodal and microlearning activities in my online courses. I know these can be time-consuming to produce, but the payoff in student learning is (in my opinion) worth it.  Please take a look and share if you'd like. There is a link to the image at the bottom as well.  Take care and be safe,  Dr. Bruce Forciea Link to Article...

2019, A Year of Technology Overload? During this past Spring, I was introduced to a friend of a friend and the conversation went something like this: “So, what do you do for a living?” “I’m a college instructor.” “So, what do you teach?” “Anatomy and Physiology.” “That must be easy, since the human body doesn’t change!” My face erupted in an awkward smile and a forced but stilted laugh exited my lips. Alas, it may seem that once you learn all of the parts of the body and how they work, simply teaching it would be easy. Perhaps in an earlier time of glossy overheads, preserved cats and pigs, and blackboards with real chalk, it was easier. I remember my professors standing in front of the class and lecturing for hours while we scrambled to write down every word. There were no online resources like videos, learning management systems or virtual labs. What flowed out of the professor’s mouth was like a golden river of knowledge while we knelt raising c...