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11007

General Session - Conference Presentation Only (no formal paper)

**Online Course Design in Three Acts**
Caterina Valentino, Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, cvalentino@ryerson.ca

Designing successful online courses is about structure, not technology. It’s how instructors orchestrate the interaction between the students, the curriculum, and the technology. It’s about building networks and nodes of communication that engage learners and encourage knowledge creation. Just as in a properly structured movie, a good online course consists of basic stages which are defined by key turning points that come together to make the course plot. The purpose of this presentation is to demonstrate that screenwriting theory is readily transferable to online course design. Course Design in Three Acts is a theoretical framework that provides a conceptual paradigm for designing successful online courses. The goal of this session is to provide participants with a course design tool that is practical and easily understood. Participants will learn how to use the Course Design in Three Acts framework to build online courses, diagnose online problems and create remedies. They will gain an appreciation for the optimal time to introduce Web resources so that student learning is enhanced. The model assists instructors to anticipate classroom problems and to prepare for them. Participants will interact with the presenter through whiteboard, chat box, voice, polling, and the screen sharing of Web 2.0 and 3.0 resources

Intermediate online design structure virtual frameworks