Getting Started

Abstract: This unit is designed to get you on your way. It lists the prerequiste, gives you an overall picture of this online instruction, and who the target audience is.

The Introduction page introduces you to the objectives for this modular instruction as a whole, outlines how to navigate within this site, defines modular teaching and provides a list of references that were used in the production of this Web site.

Estimated Working Time: 5 minutes

Prerequisites: Participants must possess adequate computer skills to be able to use a browser to complete an online module.

This Getting Started unit is an introduction to a series of five modules which follow a linear sequence:

  • Objectives
  • Criterion Test Items
  • Prerequisites
  • Sequencing of Instruction and Selection of Media
  • Pilot Testing and Revision of the Module

Target Audience: Faculty, TAs, faculty developers, instructional designers, educational administrators or anyone with an interest in modular teaching.

Name of the author of the module and her collaborators:

Elizabeth Campbell, Instructional Designer, Centre for e-Learning, University of Ottawa
Patricia Ambroise, Web Developer, Centre for e-Learning, University of Ottawa
Steve Rokeby, Graphic Artist, Centre for e-Learning, University of Ottawa