It's been an exciting first week! The pilot officially began last Monday, January 25 with 7 faculty members agreeing to participate. So one week later we have the first module complete. Faculty read articles, viewed videos, and collaborated on Padlet and on discussion boards. I was impressed with the quality of responses and please with the detail shared among the learners. The course seems to be running smoothly . . .
. . .Until you see the work I've been doing on the back end in preparation for posting Module 2! I designed rubrics with point values like I had experienced in courses I have taken as a student. However a colleague suggesting moving to Standards Based Grading and focusing on outcomes rather than points. I really liked this idea so I've been going through the assignments and changing the way the rubrics are constructed. I finished today with the assignments for week two and posted the module which "officially" opens tomorrow. In response to other feedback I added a "this module stops here" message for those who click through the modules and don't notice when they accidentally enter the next week's content.
As far as plans for this week, I will write a recap announcement tomorrow morning and then introduce the content for the coming week. I will also be working on the content and design for Week 3 and continuing to develop a rubric for the final project.
Sunday, January 31, 2016
Monday, January 25, 2016
Getting Started...Again -- Week1
I decided to postpone my practicum work another semester so here we go again. Same plan for an Online Teaching Certification course, but my priorities have changed because I had a semester to continue working on the course.
Sunday morning I finished working on the Group Module and Week 1 and sent an email to my pilot members welcoming them to the course and inviting them to watch an introductory video. The pilot officially begins today, Jan. 25.
My goals for this week are to address any feedback I receive from the pilot group -- and as of this morning I already have a link that wouldn't open for someone and suggestions for a different grading scheme (standards-based) and for a landing page between modules. So I will work on addressing those this week. I also plan to make sure the Week 2 module is ready to go so I can publish it next Sunday morning.
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Sunday morning I finished working on the Group Module and Week 1 and sent an email to my pilot members welcoming them to the course and inviting them to watch an introductory video. The pilot officially begins today, Jan. 25.
My goals for this week are to address any feedback I receive from the pilot group -- and as of this morning I already have a link that wouldn't open for someone and suggestions for a different grading scheme (standards-based) and for a landing page between modules. So I will work on addressing those this week. I also plan to make sure the Week 2 module is ready to go so I can publish it next Sunday morning.
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