Utilizing a 5-Stage Learning Model for Planning and Teaching Online Courses

Since the 5Ds Model for Planning and Teaching Online Courses was republished for the second time in 2009 and updated in the years beyond, numerous relevant models and approaches for online teaching have been emerging. Also, the utilization of the internet as an instructional delivery medium for both formal education and training has been widened as the number of online learners of all kinds has been on the rise. This is all happening as the web-based and instructional technologies are constantly changing and new challenges and opportunities in the online learning arena are evolving. This chapter presents some summaries of the emerging online learning research, web-based instructional technologies, and identifies some of the opportunities in this online learning field.

The 5Ds Model for Planning and Teaching Online Courses

Given the special nature of online courses, an appropriate evaluation approach is needed to determine the effectiveness of the course and recommend the needed revision to make it more effective each time it is offered to a new group of students. This chapter covers the fifth D of the 5Ds Model for Planning and Teaching Online Courses, the determine stage. The determine stage constitutes the third phase of the 5Ds model, the evaluation phase. Primarily, the determine stage consists of three steps, formative evaluation, summative evaluation, and revision.

The 5Ds Model for Planning and Teaching Online Courses

This chapter covers the 4th D of the 5Ds Model for Planning and Teaching Online Courses, the deliver stage. The deliver stage consists of two major steps, building and developing the online course website and developing plans to teach and manage the course instruction online.

5Ds Model for Teaching and Planning Online Courses

This chapter is devoted to the third D of the 5Ds model and last step of the planning phase, the develop stage. It covers three significant steps developing the web-based instructional strategy and the web-based instructional package. It also includes the development of the online course syllabus, along with an online class schedule, and provides examples of each step.

The 5Ds Model for Planning and Teaching Online Courses

This chapter is devoted to the second D of the 5Ds model, design. In the design stage, four instructional design concepts are covered, including conducting the instructional analysis for online course instruction, writing the performance objectives, classifying the objectives based on the learning domains, and developing the objective-based assessment. The author's story presented in this chapter is used as an illustrative visual aid of the instructional analysis and learning hierarchy concepts.

The 5Ds Model for Planning and Teaching Online Courses

This chapter covers the first D of the 5Ds model (define). The define stage is devoted to the online course eight essential definitions, including the need for the course, the overall goal of the course, the learners, the course contents, the course prerequisites, and the course learning objectives. It also describes the online learning environment and identifies the available resources and support system that comes with it. This chapter also includes the author's story that emphasizes the significance of defining the online course contents based on the intended learning outcome and targeted learners' needs.

The 5Ds Model for Planning and Teaching Online Courses

This work is not intended to be a theory-based textbook about online learning. It is, however, an application-based guidebook for planning and teaching online courses. It presents a customized five-stage learning model that is based on the instructional system design approach (ISD). Therefore, this chapter is mainly devoted to introducing the 5Ds (define, design, develop, deliver, and determine) Model for Planning and Teaching Online Courses depicted in this book. However, a brief background summary of the online learning evolvement and a theoretical framework of online learning are also included to put the 5Ds model into perspective.