Had a great meeting with Karin to discuss the first draft of the Master’s Project.

Main takeaways:

• Find research that supports the notion that
  • Higher Ed is focusing everyday more on online courses
  • Instructors find putting courses online a challenge and a ‘large’ task.
  • Situated learning is better than parallelized
  • They why of the ‘course to create a course’
• Virtual student
  • Have more than one, allow instructor to give them characteristics
  • Have an explicit virtual agent for the coach/expert
• TPCK
  • Focus more on PCK
• Competition
  • Facebook Groups
  • Hired Instructional Designer
• Evidence of Success
  • Add what may not work