Best Practices for Teaching with Springboard!
Friday, October 5, 2007 - 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.

Session 1: Getting Started with Best Practices

Performance objectives for this session:

• Recognize the need to optimize my course materials
• Determine what materials need to be migrated
• Acknowledge how the Seven Principles can relate to online learning


• Welcome - Dr. Helen Qammar
• Overview of IDEAL - Dr. John Savery (PDF)
• Roles and Responsibilities
• All courses will have a shell
• Training opportunities - Springboard! training videos
• Atomic Learning Training Videos listing (handout)
• IDEAL Web site - http://learn.uakron.edu/ideal/


• Optimizing your online content (PDF) - Suzanne Testerman
  • File type and size (PDF)
  • Materials no longer needed
• Moving your content forward
  • File Type
  • Use of Web site
  • Comparison chart (PDF)
  • Common tools (PDF)
• What's new in Springboard! (PDF)
  • New tools
  • New features
  
  
• Based on the Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education by Arthur W. Chickering and Zelda F. Gamson (1987) (PDF)
  • Encourage contact between student and faculty
  • Develops reciprocity and cooperation among students
  • Encourages active learning
  • Gives prompt feedback
  • Emphasized time on task
  • Communicates high expectations
  • Respects diverse talents and ways of learning
• Transition to Springboard Check list (PDF)
• Time to reflect (PDF)