Week 3 Purposeful Planning

From reading the first part of Chapter 3, I can take away "sticking with a plan" when designing and developing a course. The authors and from the videos highlight that when creating an online course one must not stay on task and have a solid foundation for the course. Furthermore, I understand the importance of course objectives linked to learning outcomes. I firmly believe you these two items are clear and concise that everything else will fall in place for the course. In planning with a purpose, the course should set out the goals and its objectives.

On the brink of graduating in Higher Education and Administration, I find it extremely important for the students in the program to understand the budget process as future administrators or leaders in their realm of higher education. I would like to create a course centered around Budgeting and Accounting for Higher Edcuation. The goal for this course is to understand more than just the surface level of budgeting and accounting in higher education and these two related subjects. The objectives will be the following:

• Analyze budget requests on a university-level and department-level looking at financial statements
• Setting up a budget for line items across the board
• Examine institutions data and trends nationally, regionally, and locally
• Understand how to process transactions and steps for budgeting in higher education
• Introduced to the history of funding higher education

I have an background in accounting and find extremely important for the citizens that pay taxes understand how institutions use and apply these funds appropriately. Please take the time to check out Alabama financial report. 

Week 2 - Where the Hell Do I Start?

In completing the two sections,  I learned about myself and the online teaching methods I would apply in designing and teaching a course via Internet. From the Beginner's Questionaire, I scored a 14, which points that I have a more presentation, demonstration, and modeling style of teaching. I would see myself using recorded lectures and uploading clips/video for students to relate to and have access to for resources.

As far as, Getting Started Chart I would find myself in the stage of "How I would like to teach" and lean towards a blended style by using both lecture and discussion to keep students engage in this online community. Reading the text, I found that planning and structuring the course is a great takeaway from Chapter 1 and the instructor as well as the student has to consider with dealing with an online course.

Week 1: Introduction

I am E. Hall. I am currently attending the University of Alabama pursuing my Master's degree and I have already earned my B.S. from the Capstone in Accounting. I love watching sports especially college football and professional basketball. I plan to graduate in December of 2012 and looking forward to uniting with my fiancee in Florida. I enjoy my family, attending church, and occasionally hanging out with my friends.

I am currently working as an Assistant Community Director in Housing at the University. I am curious to learn about online in general and to examine the trends as well as the advantages/disadvantages of distance education. I look forward to learning about this area, since it is a growing market in higher education. Having a financial background, I want to examine the financial data that goes into running a distant education.