Developing Course Competencies and a Sense of Community in Online, Hybrid, and Web Based Courses Assignment 2: Virtual Global University—Get to Know Your Students

Developing Course Competencies and a Sense of Community in Online, Hybrid, and Web Based Courses

Assignment 2: Virtual Global University—Get to Know Your Students

Course competencies are the building blocks of good instructions in any learning environment.

Also, creating a community is essential in any learning environment, but it is especially important in an online, hybrid, and emerging web-based initiatives environment.

Tasks:

You have started teaching a course at the Virtual Global University (VGU). In a 3- to 4-page paper, respond to the following:

    What strategies will you use in order to know your students in an online classroom without face-to-face contact?

    What will you do to build a sense of online community?

    Develop the course competencies and learning objectives for your course at VGU. Explain how you derived them. What are the factors that influenced your decision?

Assignment 2 Grading Criteria

Maximum Points

Described strategies to know the students in an online classroom without face-to-face contact.

12

Described ways to build a sense of online community.

8

Explained how the course competencies were derived and what factors influenced them.

8

Wrote in a clear, concise, and organized manner; demonstrated ethical scholarship in accurate representation and attribution of sources; displayed accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation.

4

Total:

32