Unit Notes - FDWO Week 2: The Deep Dive

Week 2 is about exploring some of the relevant learning theory that will help support adult online learners.

The mini-sessions this week are:

• Course Review Task force - a "case study"/story about a course that got poor reviews on both the instructor and course design
  
  
• Wiki activity - asks people to facilitate without a forum and explore questions about how adult learners get their needs met onine

Please go to the ISWO Sandbox and review the BackPocket Strategies (they are in each unit) for both  mini-sessions to remind you of the details, learning outcomes, and suggested approaches.  This, combined with your own experience, may "twig" other ideas that you could add to the backpocket strategies and suggest to your participants.

Some of the material in this unit can be controversial - for example, learning styles.  In that case, we aim to highlight the "big idea" that people learn in different ways, and so we should aim to include a variety in our activities and content types - a mix of individual and team, text and media, etc.

Technical Details:  you will need to be able to:

• create and populate teams in the LMS (Moodle)
• support the wiki people, including how to create and link new pages, fiddle with tables, write the instructions on the main page and, if the wiki includes several pages, create navigation structures.