courses on online learning

courses for administrators
We have provided you with courses that can help you plan and deploy online programs.

courses for instructional designers, faculty and staff
Be sure and enroll anyone that will be creating or teaching online courses.

a course for your students
Give your students access to the Quick Reference Guide for Students before their regular courses start. They will then start classes already comfortable with the technology, and be able to start learning right away. Use it as a recruiting tool by enrolling students that are interested in taking an online course.

Courses for You

There are seven standalone courses provided to Jones e-education™ clients. In addition, topics from any course are available from the Training Index on the course navigation bar. Take the course relevant to what you wish to learn, and at any time you can use the Training Index to jump across courses for specific information.

The courses for administrators, instructional designers and instructors require only a basic ability to use a word processor.

Taking the Quick Reference Guide courses prior to training with your account manager can make your live training more effective.

Designing and Facilitating Online Learning

• Plan Online Programs
• Instructional Design for Online Courses
• Facilitate Online Courses

This course resides in the Customer Resource Center because of practice Forum exercises, etc. Email your account manager with the names and email addresses of your staff that need to be in this course.

This course has also been broken into learning objects that can be searched for and deployed from the Training Index of the five admin and instructor training courses now present in all client institutions (not the Student Quick Reference Guide).

Who should take this course:

Administrators
Instructional Designers
Instructors

The following six courses are in your organization. Administrators can enroll faculty, staff, etc. at will:

Adding Resources to your Online Course

This course was created especially for faculty that will be creating courses with Microsoft® Word 97 and 2000.

• Find online resources, communities, archive videos, etc. and hyperlink to them
• Understand design and usability guidlines for web pages
• Add images and screenshots to your course pages, find clipart, etc.
• Incorporate Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Powerpoint in an online course
• Record your voice using a program that is on every Windows computer, and then add it and other sounds to your course; where to find sounds
• Use the equation editor in Microsoft Word to add math equations to your online course

Who should take this course:

Instructional Designers
Instructors

Using Course Templates for Administrators

• Select and download a course template
• Customize your course template
• Deploy your course template to your faculty/staff

Who should take this course:

Administrators

Using Course Templates for Instructors

This course was created especially for faculty that will be creating courses with Microsoft® Word 97 and 2000.

• Obtain and use a zip utility
• Create a course in Microsoft® Word using a course template
• Upload your course into Jones e-education™

Who should take this course:

Instructional Designers
Instructors

Quick Reference Guide for Administrators

• An online guide to getting started
• Understand the concepts of administering an online program
• Overview and Simulation training of the administrative features of the software

Who should take this course:

Administrators

Quick Reference Guide for Instructors

Topics are divided between course setup and facilitation

• Overview and Simulation training of the course management features of the software

Who should take this course:

Instructional Designers
Instructors

Quick Reference Guide for Students

Available in either a K-12 or adult theme

• Overview and Simulation training of the student features of the learning enviroment

Who should take this course:

Instructional Designers
Instructors
Students

K-12 Version: uses Flash, sound effects, animation, etc.

Adult Learner Version

Training Index

A Knowledge Base available from the navigation bar on all of the above courses except for the Quick Reference Guide for Students, click on "Training Index."

• Searchable index of all seven courses and of many stand-alone tutorials and whitepapers, provides "just-in-time-training"

Who should use this resource:

Administrators
Instructional Designers
Instructors