One course I'm taking is on course design. So far it's been interesting. I've been renewing my objective writing skills, as well as planning my final project. One topic this week was "what can you let go of?" That's something I really need to think about. I teach in an accelerated program and always feel like there's too much material and too little time. To successfully take this to an online format I need to give something up... but what?
The second course is on collaborative communities. This week we're looking at good practices. This raised the question for me about active learning techniques and how to apply that practice to the theory-based courses that I teach and would like to put online (or at least blended). It also addresses the same problem as before: too much material, too li