Hall Jacob A, Widdall Christine, Lei Jing
Childhood/Early Childhood Education Department, SUNY Cortland, P.O. Box 2000, Education Building, Room 1247, Cortland, NY 13045 USA.
School of Education, Syracuse University, 252 Huntington Hall, Syracuse, NY 13244 USA.
TechTrends. 2021;65(6):963-976. doi: 10.1007/s11528-021-00660-2. Epub 2021 Aug 31.
As online classrooms become more commonplace in K-12 education, teacher education programs seek to better prepare candidates for these contexts and are considering ways to address this additional preparation within their curricula. This article presents a design case of a 2-credit, 10-day, online course that was created to prepare 237 pre-service teachers for student teaching in online environments during the Fall 2020 semester. The Presence + Experience framework guided the design process in this case as designers sought to build a community of online learners within a highly experiential learning environment. This article details the design process with this framework along with its challenges, designers' experiences, and the resulting product.
