Title: Week 1 Summary & Looking Ahead
Course: Dev_TOPKIT_SAMPLE_COURSE_Bauer_S_67 > Section: Week 1 - Navigating the Online Environment

This Week

This week you read online content and completed several activities in preparation for your course. Content consisted of: a welcome message from our campus executives, institutional data for online teaching effectiveness, and content specific to your course development. Activities helped you analyze some key development concepts. These topics are import to discuss early so that they can be applied during the development of your entire course.

You should have completed the following assignments this week:

1. Complete the Week 1 Small Group Kick-Off Activity
2. Complete the Student Panel Activity

Next Week

Next week you will complete online readings and assignments to learn several strategies that address copyright, accessibility, and FERPA issues as you design and develop your online course. You will apply these concepts and the online persona strategies discussed in the Week One to your Build Your Course Activities as you create drafts of your Syllabus, Protocols, and Instructor/Course Introduction.

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