Welcome to RSI 101: Delivering Courses with Regular and Substantive Interaction!
In this short course, you will learn:
Part 1: What regular and substantive interaction (RSI) is, how to comply with federal regulations that apply to online instruction, and how regular and substantive interaction relates to online course delivery.
Part 2: How to use available tools to establish strong instructor presence and interact with students effectively and efficiently.
Part 3: Best practices for delivering effective feedback to students and how to help students develop a receptive mindset for using your feedback.
Because this course is all about interaction, we will use our short time together to interact numerous times in the course assignments.  You will be expected to participate in a variety of exercises that involve interacting with the course facilitator, example students, and one another to demonstrate effective feedback that observes the principles of RSI and evidence-based teaching practices.
To complete this course, you must (1) complete all assignments and (2) earn a grade of 85% or better.  
 
Course ScheduleThis session runs from Sept 2 to Sept 24.  During this time, you will complete Parts 1, 2, and 3, as well as a series of Final Assessments.  Because this is a discussion-heavy course, and your peers need time to reply to your posts, assignments in the course will have three due dates.  Please add these dates to your calendar.  Late submissions will not be accepted unless previously arranged.
By Tues. Sept. 17, all Week 1 and Week 2 (Parts 1, 2 and 3) assignments are due, except for replies to discussion assignments.
By Tues. Sept. 21, all assignments and replies to discussion assignments are due, except for replies to Week 3 discussions. 
On Fri. Sept. 24, the course ends and all assessments (notably the discussion responses to Final Assessments) are due.
If you foresee issues with completing work on this schedule, please let me know now.
Let's get started!
Estimated time to complete: 8-12 hours total