Week 3

Week 2 of the Online Teaching Certification has just ended. Given that there was a little game of football going on Sunday evening, many of the assignments came in yesterday and today which is why I postponed this post. At this point I have looked at and commented on about 80% of what I have received.

The two deliverables for this week were developing learning objectives for an online course and crafting directions for an assessment. For the most part I got what I expected with the learning outcomes assignment. The assessment assignment needs some tweaking as far as directions go. For example, I asked learners to submit a chart online filling in one assessment for one learning objective but everyone in the group completed the entire chart leaving me guessing for which assessment they chose to write directions. I think I will change the original directions asking them to complete the entire chart since it didn't seem to be too much to ask. Additionally, I will ask them to submit the learning outcome their assessment directions is addressing so I don't have to play detective to figure that out on my own.

As far as planning for this current week, I pulled out the articles I had gathered last semester on assessment and after a refresh, I created the content pages for this module. I drafted the assignments for the week and created rubrics for each.

My plans for next week are to finish developing module 4 which is about organizing a course, finalizing a rubric for the group project, and preparing for how I want to receive feedback for the course -- focus group, Google form, open-ended questionnaire.