Creating Online Lessons: A Faculty Development Seminar Series.

Creating Online Lessons: A Faculty Development Seminar Series. Med Educ Online. 2003 Dec;8(1):4344 Authors: Sleight D, Reznich C, Yelon S, Williamson J Abstract The World Wide Web is being used increasingly to deliver instruction in medical education. Consequently, there is a need to train faculty in developing and implementing online instruction. We developed and implemented a seminar series to teach faculty to create educationally sound, well-designed online instruction. Instruction was delivered to 15 participants via a six-session seminar on developing web-based lessons, supplemented with web-based instruction. First, the participants learned the basics of instructional design via a web-based module. They then completed content outlines for their online lessons prior to the first seminar. Lesson development, web site development and the use of a web-based instructional shell to imp lement the online lessons were each taught in two two-hour sessions. Eight participants developed online lessons and four actually implemented them. Feedback was mostly positive, with suggestions for improvement. All eight participants who completed the series said they would recommend it to their colleagues. Because a longitudinal workshop type of seminar series requires a large amount of participant time outside of class, a six-month seminar series may be too long. It is important at the beginning of the series to help participants select topics suit...
Source: Medical Education Online - Category: Universities & Medical Training Tags: Med Educ Online Source Type: research