King Saud University

College of Education
Department of educational technology
EDUC333 The Characteristics in Online course

Instructor: Eman Aldhafiri

Office: RM 222
Office Hours: (Monday and Wednesdays 12:00-3:00PM).
Office Telephone: (858) 610-2222
E-mail: amonah303@hotmail.com

Year/Quarter: 2011 winter Quarter

Time/days/location:
Blog: is a place that you should post your assignments. It can be found at:

The College of Education:

Department of educational technology:
“The department of Instructional Media and Technology supports the design,
development, utilization, management, and evaluation of instructional technology
effectively and efficiently at all levels of theory, practice and ethics by hiring qualified
faculty members, staff, and talented students to create enrich learning/instruction/training
environment. Moreover, the department promotes its faculty members, staff, and
students' professional development to keep up with the advances in the field of
instructional technology theory, research and practices and to contribute actively in
development of the field locally and globally.” (Link)

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Course Overview and/or Rationale
EDUC 333 is one of the elective courses in the Department of educational technology
Program. This course make the students know how the important of the Characteristics in
design online course and develop student’s technology skills and make them use some
new technology tolls.

Course Goal:
Make the students know how the important of the Characteristics in design online course
and develop student’s technology skills and make them use some new technology tolls.

Course Requirements

1- each student needs to create his/her own blogs.

2- each student needs to post his/her assignment before the due date.
3- each student needs to post comments to his/her classmates.
4- each student needs to create a online course in effective way.

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 Assignments Points

Create a blog 10

First post ,second, and third 30

Students comments 10
Grade Points
Total
A 50 50
B 35
C 20
F 10

Course Policies
Students should turn over their assignments before the due date.
Students should do their own assignments.
Students should communicate with each other every week.

Commitment to Diversity
To provide distinctive education, produce creative research, serve society and contribute
in building the knowledge economy and community through learning, creative thinking
environment, the optimal use of technology and effective international partnership (link)

Web information Links:

• Word press: http://wordpress.com/
• Type pad: http://www.typepad.com/pro/index-2c.html
• Blogger: http://www.blogger.com/home
• How to Set Up a Blog Using Blogger: http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=jSX1Rgm3V3Q
• How to Start Blogging with Blogger
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryb4VPSmKuo
• Uploading a Video with Blogger

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skype
http://www.com-foryou.com/skype.php

Rubric
This quiz will be on university level. Students’ whome are interesting in learning about
the Characteristics in online course and develop their technology skills and useing some
new technology tolls.

Students should answers all the questions

10 points is excellent quality of work (A)

8 points is very good quality of work (B)
6 points is good quality of work (C)
4 points is normal of quality of work (D)
2 points is unacceptable quality work (F)

A B C D F
Student has no Student has Student has two Student has Student missed
mistakes and only one mistakes and three mistakes all the items
masters all the mistake and may get miss and may get and didn’t study
course masters all the understanding miss for the teat. The
requirement course of the some of understanding student need to
and show high requirement but course of the many take the course
level of may get miss materials. The things of course aging.
understanding understanding student need to materials. The
the course of the some of review the student need to
materials. course course to make review the
materials. sure he/she course many
understand the times to make
materials sure he/she
understand the
materials

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