The syllabus page provides a recommended schedule for completing the course. You should aim to spend between 3 to 6 hours each week to complete the activities and learning challenges at times which are convenient for your own schedule. The time you spend completing the challenges will vary according to your existing digital skills and experience. You are free to study at your own pace and access to the materials will remain open.
The Empowered Digital Teacher for Online Learning (EDT4OL) course is divided into two phases:
- Preparing a successful Acceptance portfolio to gain entry to a facilitated cohort (2 weeks)
- Completing the Course learning challenges (3 weeks)
Each week is subdivided into Sessions.
Acceptance portfolio
Week 1
Week 2
EDT4OL course
Week 1
Week 2
Week 3
Session details
Portfolio getting started
Familiarise yourself with the course site and course guide.
- Date: Before the course starts
- Resources
- About EDT4OL
- Start here
- Course guide (Click on the “Next” button at the bottom of each screen of the course guide or use the site navigation to proceed.)
- Key activities
- Please complete the Pre-course survey online. (This will help us to better support students on this course).
Portfolio Session 1
Demonstrate semantic markup skills by publishing a user page on WikiEducator.
Portfolio Session 2
Copyright and Creative Commons licensing
Demonstrate knowledge of basic concepts in copyright and Creative Commons licensing by passing a short knowledge test.
Portfolio Session 3
Sign the EDT4OL Learning contract.
Portfolio Session 4
Publish personal blog post
Demonstrate online publishing skills by preparing a blog post sharing evidence of prerequisite knowledge for this course.
EDT4OL Session 0
Establish a Personal Learning Environment (PLE)
Create accounts on websites to establish your digital Personal Learning Environment (PLE) to connect with your community during and after the course.
EDT4OL Session 1
Interactive learning with H5P
Create interactive online learning activities using H5P software.
EDT4OL Session 2
Publish a storyboard for a sub-section of an online course website.
EDT4OL Session 3
Outlining a learning pathway
Sequence and ‘chunk’ the individual pages of a learning pathway to generate an outline spreadsheet template.
EDT4OL Session 4
Complete a series of activities and mini-challenges, leading to creation of a page in WikiEducator demonstrating a range of intermediate wiki skills needed for publishing online learning material.
EDT4OL Session 5
Snapshot a collection of individual wiki pages listed on an ‘outline’ page on WikiEducator to a WordPress course site.
EDT4OL Session 6
Authoring and publishing a learning sequence
Author the content for a learning pathway integrating activities in the wiki then publish the outputs to a WordPress course Multisite.
The syllabus page provides a recommended schedule for completing the course. You should aim to spend between 3 to 6 hours each week to complete the activities and learning challenges at times which are convenient for your own schedule. The time you spend completing the challenges will vary according to your existing digital skills and experience. You are free to study at your own pace and access to the materials will remain open.
The Empowered Digital Teacher for Online Learning (EDT4OL) course is divided into two phases:
Each week is subdivided into Sessions.
Acceptance portfolio
Week 1
Week 2
EDT4OL course
Week 1
Week 2
Week 3
Session details
Portfolio getting started
Course overview
Familiarise yourself with the course site and course guide.
Portfolio Session 1
Basic wiki skills
Demonstrate semantic markup skills by publishing a user page on WikiEducator.
Portfolio Session 2
Copyright and Creative Commons licensing
Demonstrate knowledge of basic concepts in copyright and Creative Commons licensing by passing a short knowledge test.
Portfolio Session 3
Learning contract
Sign the EDT4OL Learning contract.
Portfolio Session 4
Publish personal blog post
Demonstrate online publishing skills by preparing a blog post sharing evidence of prerequisite knowledge for this course.
EDT4OL Session 0
Establish a Personal Learning Environment (PLE)
Create accounts on websites to establish your digital Personal Learning Environment (PLE) to connect with your community during and after the course.
EDT4OL Session 1
Interactive learning with H5P
Create interactive online learning activities using H5P software.
EDT4OL Session 2
Developing a storyboard
Publish a storyboard for a sub-section of an online course website.
EDT4OL Session 3
Outlining a learning pathway
Sequence and ‘chunk’ the individual pages of a learning pathway to generate an outline spreadsheet template.
EDT4OL Session 4
Intermediate wiki skills
Complete a series of activities and mini-challenges, leading to creation of a page in WikiEducator demonstrating a range of intermediate wiki skills needed for publishing online learning material.
EDT4OL Session 5
Snapshot process
Snapshot a collection of individual wiki pages listed on an ‘outline’ page on WikiEducator to a WordPress course site.
EDT4OL Session 6
Authoring and publishing a learning sequence
Author the content for a learning pathway integrating activities in the wiki then publish the outputs to a WordPress course Multisite.
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