I have added Powerpoint slides and podcasts as resources to my online psychology course in Moodle. I added a glossary activity to promote active information processing and work toward developing interactive activities in my course.
The podcasts related to the lack of learning that results from passive listening during lecture were not surprising to me. I am confronting the issue of students' lack of connection with the material, particularly in my introductory courses. I would like to incorporate more active learning strategies in my online and face to face classrooms. I am concerned about how I will cover the amount of material that is generally expected in survey courses at this point without running out of time for students to fully process the information. If the majority of students are not understanding and retaining information from traditional college instruction methods, I guess it doesn't matter how much information is covered anyway! The only thing is, we are still expected to have broad objectives consistent with those required by accrediting and transfer entities regardless of whether we are using traditional methods or not. The SVCC checklist seems to assemble some nice benchmarks to achieve, and I feel that it will require some time before I am able to integrate and apply that information to my course.
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