Synchronous Online Children?s Literature Course

This project focused on assisting Adjunct Professor Marion Rocco in creating a synchronous, online version of her live Children's Literature course (INF 322T). This Children's Literature course focuses on training students to select books appropriate for all ages and stages of childhood development and emphasizes critical analysis of the elements of literature in order to make these selections. With the goal of offering this course in the fall of 2019, we aimed to alter the format but not the overall content of the course. We conducted a syllabus review of different courses that are offered in this area around the country and also researched elements of successful online courses. In adjusting the format, we added Instapoll questions throughout the lectures, replaced some of the assignments to incorporate more student choice in the course curriculum and tested conference technologies from which to conduct synchronous online lectures that incorporate student participation.