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iMOOC102：如何学习美国大学的在线课程

10 個評分

The State University of New York

iMOOC102：如何学习美国大学的在线课程

10 個評分

This competency-based, skill-building course will help non-U.S. students, first generation immigrants and foreign-born professionals better understand and master American e-Learning, as well as other U.S. virtual environments, for college and career success. To excel in American online learning and work environments, international students and foreign-born professionals need to know how American universities and companies use the Internet to organize study and work, develop and execute projects, communicate ideas, collaborate, and solve organizational and technical problems. By taking this course, you will learn how to enhance your cultural knowledge and assess potential skill gaps that may hinder your online experience or negatively impact your performance in U.S. virtual work environments. Throughout the course you will systematically review competencies required for online work, come to better understand common barriers for non-native students and professionals, learn how to detect and overcome competency gaps, and develop plans for self-improvement. We hope that you will enjoy the course and invite you to share your own experiences with other students.

從本節課中

International learners in U.S. online education

In this introductory module, we explain why many international online learners and foreign-born professionals experience problems in American e-learning environments and how they can use a competency-based approach to overcome barriers and become fully proficient for college and career success. Your instructors for this week are Dr. Valeri Chukhlomin, Dr. Dana Gliserman-Kopans, Dr. Michele Forte, and Amy Giaculli. Guest lecturers are Prof. Xenia Coulter and Lorette Pellettiere Calix.

Alex: What do you want to know about the online classroom in the U.S.?3:43

Classroom navigation8:02

Getting help2:07

Student information center1:04

Student services4:06

Disability services1:57

The U.S. academic system5:19

Academic qualifications and degrees8:56

Bonus lecture: The philosophy of American education7:31

Bonus lecture: The methodology of American education8:43

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Dr. Valeri Chukhlomin
Professor
SUNY Empire State College
Dr. Anant Deshpande
Associate Professor
SUNY Empire State College
Dr. Tonka Jokelova
Coordinator of Curriculum and Instructional Design
SUNY Empire State College
Amy Giaculli
Assessment Specialist
SUNY Empire State College
Dr. Bidhan Chandra
Professor
Business, Management & Economics
Dr. Michele Forte
Assistant Professor, SUNY Empire State College
Community and Human Services
Dr. Dana Gliserman Kopans
Associate Professor
Literary and Cultural Studies

Hi, you've been participating in this MOOC,

so you now have some idea of what it's like to study on line.

A fully on line course may have some elements that look a little bit

different than this MOOC however.

So I wanted to share with you one of my online courses, so

that you could get a better idea.

First of all, every course has a home page.

Now, the way the home page looks may differ in one college or

another, in one course or another, but

all of the courses will have some sort of home page with some similar information.

The first thing you always need to check on the homepage are the announcements,

to see if there's anything that your instructor has

recently asked you to do or given you some additional information.

From the home page you can usually also find ways to communicate,

both with your instructor and with your classmates.

In this example we have a place for messages on the page, and

we also have another place for an internal email system.

The first thing you should check when you start a new course,

is the course information.

In the course information you'll find the course expectations,

some sort of a syllabus or

learning contract or description of the course that gives you a more complete

idea of what to expect in terms of work load and assignments.

You will have important information on how your

instructor will be evaluating you or grading you.

You will also have some other important things for example, in this

case in the course information we have a link for virtual meetings in the course.

The other important thing that you can find a link to from your home page,

the course home page, is the course schedule.

And that's something you should also check,

from the very first day of the course.

Get an idea of when assignments are due, when you are going to have to participate

in discussion forums, what sort of reading assignments you're going to have.

In fact, the very first day you should go in there, check the schedule and

also print it to keep it handy and be able to refer to it frequently.

Now the content of a course is divided into what is commonly called modules or

sometimes called units.

In the example that I'm showing you today,

the modules are organized with tabs across the top of the page.

Sometimes the, the modules are organized either in the right or

left column for example in this MOOC you find the modules

in the left column of the course but the cont, one, the idea is the same.

The course content is divided into sections or

topics that are commonly called modules or units.

When you open a module you will also find some common elements.

Each module we'll have some sort of a brief description of what is the topic for

that module.

There will also be some sort of information from the instructor perhaps,

a lecture perhaps, perhaps its called instructor commentary, but

there will be some information from the instructor on what and

the topic that you're studying in that module.

Other common elements in any module of a course are discussion forums

which you may have seen some of those in the coursera course, if you've joined

any of those discussions, and there's also commonly a written assignment.

Now your reading for the course is often found in the course information at

the beginning of the course but it's also common to find

links to information within the module or files that you can download.

Each module and

each course also usually has a link to some sort of online resources.

These are additional resources that will help you with the course, or

can help you in general as a student.

You will notice in this example there are online resources

within the module but also, from wherever you are in the course,

at the top of the page you can find other resources and

help, that are more general to the entire institution.

Some courses may have exams or

quizzes, and these are often taken also within your online course.

Your instructor will give you more information on how to take those courses.

But you would usually just go to your same course and

there will be a link to your exam or your quiz.

Different institutions do this differently you may work independently online,

you may have to go to a proctored location.

As international students, make sure your instructor knows you're an international

student, you would most likely take the exam or quiz on your own.

Let's talk for

a minute also about synchronous meetings that I mentioned at the beginning.

The synchronous meetings are something that you also might have trouble

with as an international student.

There are a number of different virtual meeting tools, and

different institutions or different structures may learn different tools, so

I can't tell you about all of those.

But, if there are virtual meetings, once again,

make sure your instructor knows that you are an international student, and

if there are any time zone differences that will make it difficult for

you to attend any virtual meetings, these could be virtual

meetings in a face to face environment or it could

be a specific time that your instructor has asked the students to be online for

a synchronous chat so that everyone can discuss something at the same time.

So once again, make sure your instructor knows that you are an international

student, and especially if you have a large time difference if you are not

going to be able to attend, what sort of alternate work you might be able to do.

From within your course, you can also see your grades and

there's usually a grade book attached to every course.

Once again, this is something that's different depending upon the learning

management system that you're in, but it's something you can note to look for

is how to find the grades for your course.

At the end of the course there's also a place online where

students can find a summary of all of their grades for the term, not just

the assignment by assignment grades that you can find within the course.

As I said before, each learning management system, each institution

does things a little bit differently, but all institutions do provide

some sort of tutorial that you can review before you start taking the course.

Please do that, taking the online tutorial will help you understand how

the learning management system works at the institution you have chosen and

will give you a better idea of what the expectations are for

that course or for studying at that school, I hope this has been helpful.

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