Title: Session 5
Course: Connecting with Students Online

Course management
In this session, you will discuss common issues associated with online course management, including copyright and intellectual property and academic honesty.
Read | - Promising Practices in Online Learning: Using Online Learning for Credit Recovery and At Risk Students: http://www.inacol.org/research/promisingpractices/index.php
Explore
Pick one of the following topics to research. Share a summary of what you have read in the Session Five Wiki. Then, read what others have written about the topics they chose. Finally, share your thoughts about the topics in this week's discussion forum.

Note: Please have this activity completed by Saturday, so that there is time to read what others have written in the Wiki and still respond in the class discussion.
- Copyright and Intellectual property
- Student Engagement / Blended Learning
- Academic Honesty
- Time management
- At Risk Students and credit recovery

General Resources to use:
- iNacol http://www.inacol.org/
- Ion http://www.ion.uillinois.edu/index.asp
- Minnesota Learning Commons http://mnlearningcommons.org/index.php
- The Journal http://thejournal.com/the/resources/2007/roadmap/
- Google Scholar http://scholar.google.com
- Edutopia http://www.edutopia.org/
Develop | Open the Communications Tasklist that you began in Session One. Complete Part V of the tasklist for this week. Remember that this document will be completed and submitted at the end of Session Six. If you would like personal feedback on your tasklist before session six, please share your document with the course facilitatior (if you are using GoogleDocs), or email it to the course facilitator for comments and suggestions.
Discuss
Reflect on two things you found valuable in the Wiki, and explain how these will guide, change, or influence your online teaching practices.

Please note specific points from the readings or from your experiences that support your response. Please make at least three substantive contributions to the discussion using the Discussion Forum Rubric, found on the main page of this course.
Broken Links
While we check links regularly, it is not always possible to make sure that all web links are always working. If you encounter any broken links, or other issues with the course curriculum, please contact your course instructor. Thank you!

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