{"606728":{"#nid":"606728","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Ideas for Creating an Effective Syllabus for Online Learning","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/modlangs.gatech.edu\/people\/person\/danielle-geary\u0022\u003EDanielle Geary\u003C\/a\u003E, Lecturer \u0026amp; Online Coordinator of Spanish at the School of Modern Languages (ModLangs) at Georgia Institute of Technology, wrote\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EThe Faculty Focus\u003C\/em\u003E, June 4, article, \u0026ldquo;Ideas for Creating an Effective Syllabus for Online Learning.\u0026rdquo; The School of School of Modern Languages is part of the Georgia Tech Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EExcerpt:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOnline students need to feel an instructor presence in their classes. Thorough explanations and effective communication help fulfill this need and can transform a mediocre online course into a great one\u0026mdash;and it all starts with the syllabus.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EStructure and communication. That\u0026rsquo;s what I\u0026rsquo;ve found to be the keys to an effective online course syllabus. Well, that, and something I call a chapter checklist, to go along with the syllabus. I\u0026rsquo;ve discovered both to be essential to my asynchronous online foreign language course.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ENow that I\u0026rsquo;ve been teaching Spanish online for five years, experience has taught me some excellent ways to both connect with my students and provide much-needed structure.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;For the full article, visit\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.facultyfocus.com\/articles\/online-education\/ideas-for-creating-an-effective-syllabus-for-online-learning\/\u0022\u003EThe Faculty Focus\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/em\u003Ewebsite.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34508","created_gmt":"2018-06-04 14:48:25","changed_gmt":"2018-06-04 15:15:30","author":"oadebola3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Taylor Plattner","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.facultyfocus.com\/articles\/online-education\/ideas-for-creating-an-effective-syllabus-for-online-learning\/","dateline":{"date":"2018-06-04T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2018-06-04T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"606730":{"id":"606730","type":"image","title":"Danielle Geary","body":null,"created":"1528125093","gmt_created":"2018-06-04 15:11:33","changed":"1535738182","gmt_changed":"2018-08-31 17:56:22","alt":"Danielle Geary,  Lecturer and Online Coordinator of Spanish at the School of Modern Languages","file":{"fid":"231403","name":"Geary_Danielle.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Geary_Danielle.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Geary_Danielle.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":2851,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Geary_Danielle.jpg?itok=Kx1AqCAf"}}},"media_ids":["606730"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1284","name":"School of Modern Languages"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"178183","name":"online syllabus"},{"id":"167057","name":"spanish"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}