Master of Instructional Design and Technology (MIDT)
Open University of Malaysia (OUM)
Systematic Approach to Training: ID, ISD, ADDIE
Peer Learning, Autodidactism, Learning Objects, OER
This document provides an overview of pedagogical innovations presented at the JTEL Summer School in Bari, Italy on June 4, 2019. It discusses 10 potential big ideas for transforming education, including spaced learning, computational thinking, epistemic education, threshold concepts, flipped classroom, intergroup empathy, making thinking visible, learning with robots, decolonizing learning, and event-based learning. Each idea is summarized briefly, outlining its key aspects and providing examples of how it could be implemented using technology to enhance learning.
Tutorial on qualitative approaches to learning analytics given by Rebecca Ferguson of The Open University UK at the Learning Analytics Summer Institute (LASI) run by the Society for Learning Analytics Research (SoLAR) at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver, Canada, on 17 June 2019
The document outlines an agenda for a leadership development workshop focusing on building sustainable school leadership skills. It discusses principles of sustainability like depth, breadth, and justice. It provides models for quality professional dialogue including quality learning circles and a pedagogy coaching model. It also addresses having tough conversations and developing issue identification and prioritization strategies.
Tune in to this webinar if you are looking for a way to achieve a great ROI with a cost-effective eLearning strategy drives results without skimping on quality. It is time to place your order for those Microlearning Nuggets!
This 30-minutes Master Class explores ways to increase interaction between learners and their instructors, content and other learners using course design, features and blocks in Moodle and Totara Learn.
Tune in NOW!
The document provides an overview of an evaluation workshop. It begins with welcoming participants and providing instructions. The agenda includes discussing the evaluation process and logic models, team logic modeling, asking good evaluation questions, and the balanced scorecard approach. It introduces the Golden LEAF Essential Skills Initiative being evaluated and the evaluation team. It discusses developing a culture of curiosity around data and ensuring data quality and consistency. The goal is to provide grantees with tools and strategies for conducting formative evaluations of their workforce development programs to support continuous improvement.
AERA: Strategic Facilitation of Problem-Based Discussionsnowcity
This study examined the facilitation strategies used in problem-based learning (PBL) discussions for science teachers' professional development. The researchers analyzed video recordings of 6 PBL group discussions involving 35 teachers. They found that facilitators led the discussions by asking questions, restating ideas, and summarizing. The main goals of facilitation were promoting active discussion, building a learning community, maintaining the group process, and modeling best practices. Teachers evaluated the facilitation positively and found the strategies helpful for their learning. However, the study was limited by its short time frame and more research is needed on the impact of individual strategies.
Blended Learning Professional Development Action ResearchMonicaZvolensky
1) The goal of this action research plan is to determine if providing educators with self-paced professional development resources on blended learning will increase their adoption of blended learning approaches.
2) The study will utilize surveys every two weeks and bi-monthly interviews to collect quantitative and qualitative data on educators' progress.
3) Results will be shared with educators and leadership to facilitate collaboration and inform next steps in supporting blended learning development.
This document provides an overview of pedagogical innovations presented at the JTEL Summer School in Bari, Italy on June 4, 2019. It discusses 10 potential big ideas for transforming education, including spaced learning, computational thinking, epistemic education, threshold concepts, flipped classroom, intergroup empathy, making thinking visible, learning with robots, decolonizing learning, and event-based learning. Each idea is summarized briefly, outlining its key aspects and providing examples of how it could be implemented using technology to enhance learning.
Tutorial on qualitative approaches to learning analytics given by Rebecca Ferguson of The Open University UK at the Learning Analytics Summer Institute (LASI) run by the Society for Learning Analytics Research (SoLAR) at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver, Canada, on 17 June 2019
The document outlines an agenda for a leadership development workshop focusing on building sustainable school leadership skills. It discusses principles of sustainability like depth, breadth, and justice. It provides models for quality professional dialogue including quality learning circles and a pedagogy coaching model. It also addresses having tough conversations and developing issue identification and prioritization strategies.
Tune in to this webinar if you are looking for a way to achieve a great ROI with a cost-effective eLearning strategy drives results without skimping on quality. It is time to place your order for those Microlearning Nuggets!
This 30-minutes Master Class explores ways to increase interaction between learners and their instructors, content and other learners using course design, features and blocks in Moodle and Totara Learn.
Tune in NOW!
The document provides an overview of an evaluation workshop. It begins with welcoming participants and providing instructions. The agenda includes discussing the evaluation process and logic models, team logic modeling, asking good evaluation questions, and the balanced scorecard approach. It introduces the Golden LEAF Essential Skills Initiative being evaluated and the evaluation team. It discusses developing a culture of curiosity around data and ensuring data quality and consistency. The goal is to provide grantees with tools and strategies for conducting formative evaluations of their workforce development programs to support continuous improvement.
AERA: Strategic Facilitation of Problem-Based Discussionsnowcity
This study examined the facilitation strategies used in problem-based learning (PBL) discussions for science teachers' professional development. The researchers analyzed video recordings of 6 PBL group discussions involving 35 teachers. They found that facilitators led the discussions by asking questions, restating ideas, and summarizing. The main goals of facilitation were promoting active discussion, building a learning community, maintaining the group process, and modeling best practices. Teachers evaluated the facilitation positively and found the strategies helpful for their learning. However, the study was limited by its short time frame and more research is needed on the impact of individual strategies.
Blended Learning Professional Development Action ResearchMonicaZvolensky
1) The goal of this action research plan is to determine if providing educators with self-paced professional development resources on blended learning will increase their adoption of blended learning approaches.
2) The study will utilize surveys every two weeks and bi-monthly interviews to collect quantitative and qualitative data on educators' progress.
3) Results will be shared with educators and leadership to facilitate collaboration and inform next steps in supporting blended learning development.
The document discusses investigating formative frameworks to understand how students' prior educational experiences influence their engagement and benefits from interventions. It involved students and staff in business management units. Stage 1 gathered staff and student viewpoints through interviews and surveys. Stage 2 sought to identify if students recognized changes and reflected key areas. The intervention designed formative tasks to complement lectures and assessments. Outcomes showed most students recognized changes and found tasks helped understand assessments. Next steps include a focus group to address issues around feedback. The document defines formative as creating or producing through effort to change composition, with activities supporting a formative process involving content, environment, teachers and assessment.
A 5E Lesson Plan to Promote the Use of Reflective-Reflexive Practices by In...Brehaniea Wight
EDLM6200 - Reflective-Reflexive Practices in Technology Enabled Environments
Link for full lesson plan: https://drive.google.com/file/d/17adoZAcv0x5clfB0IbgXc328d08awnJ3/view?usp=sharing
In today’s slideshare, we look at the use of digital technology to enhance reflective-reflexive practice in a 5E lesson plan. It is in response to a teacher’s sudden and drastic shift from the traditional classroom to a strictly online learning environment. While learning takes place in the synchronous environment through live conferences, it is supported using an asynchronous learning management platform.
The 5e model of instruction will empower the students to take responsibility for their own learning. The teacher will guide the students through the five phases - engage, explore, explain, elaborate, and evaluate. Students will engage in reflective-reflexive practice in each phase using online digital tools.. The reflective-reflexive process will incorporate works from reflective gurus such as
Kolb - learning through experience
Gibbs - emotional feelings, action plan
Brookfield - four critical lenses - self, peers, experts and literature
Schön’s reflective models - reflection before, during and after
The document provides guidance for developing effective collaboration in online courses. It emphasizes the importance of planning, coordination, feedback and reflection. Instructors should begin the course by engaging learners with introductory activities to familiarize them with course material and expectations. Throughout the course, instructors should model good collaborative behaviors, provide feedback, and evaluate activities to improve future collaboration.
In this webinar we will present a collection of classroom-based formative assessment techniques for elementary and middle grade mathematics teachers to not only consider, but also to use effectively—everyday. Our guest, Skip Fennell, will also discuss how particular formative assessment techniques can bridge to summative assessments and the preparation for such measures. Fennell will address the suggestion from the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics’ Principles to Actions: Ensuring Mathematical Success for All (2014) that educators leverage assessment opportunities to improve teaching and learning at the classroom and school level.
Real-time Assessment: A Guide for Emergency Remote TeachingFitri Mohamad
This is a set of materials from a webinar held for Universiti Malaysia Sarawak's lecturers (UNIMAS), to guide the transition from f2f teaching to emergency remote teaching - specifically on conducting Real-time Assessments.
The document discusses project-based learning (PBL) as an instructional approach where students learn by actively engaging in real-world and personally meaningful projects. It provides three key benefits of PBL according to research: 1) It increases long-term retention of content knowledge, 2) It helps students perform as well or better on assessments compared to traditional instruction, and 3) It improves students' problem-solving, collaboration skills, and attitudes towards learning. The document also notes that effective PBL involves students working in groups to answer a driving question or solve a problem, with teachers serving as facilitators. Overall, the research presented indicates that when implemented well, PBL can promote higher student achievement outcomes.
Action Learning Sets: An Innovative Way to Facilitate Writing for Publication Self Employed
Presentation given by Maria J Grant, Research Fellow, University of Salford, UK at the 7th International Evidence Based Library and Information Practice (EBLIP7) conference, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada, 15th-18th July 20013.
www.eblip7.library.usask.ca
The document summarizes key points from a TESTA masterclass on using research tools to understand student assessment. The masterclass covered:
- Defining formative and summative assessment
- Auditing a program's assessment using a 10-step guide
- Administering and analyzing data from the Assessment Experience Questionnaire (AEQ)
- Conducting and analyzing focus groups on student experiences
- Triangulating data from audits, AEQs, and focus groups to understand assessment in a program
- Effectively presenting findings to program teams to facilitate positive changes to assessment practices
Gamification Techniques to Engage StudentsD2L Barry
Gamification in D2L, Leslie Van Wolvelear, Oakton Community College
Presentation given on Dec 13, 2019 at DePaul University for the D2L Connection: Chicago Edition.
Discover strategies to increase student engagement in your courses and learn how to use Brightspace tools and college services to aid in student retention.
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: Revamping a Freshman Seminar Information Literacy Pro...Amanda Izenstark
The document summarizes revisions made to an information literacy program for freshman students at the University of Rhode Island. The original program consisted of a library tour, demonstration of the catalog, and worksheet. It was revised using backward design and assessment principles to make it more engaging for students and mentors. The revised program included a pre-activity research exercise, classroom session with discussion questions, and post-activity scavenger hunt. Assessment found students were more engaged and learned the intended goals and outcomes.
How identifying a theory of change can help you measure the success of your programs (and organization as a whole) and obtain funding to create social change.
Prevention to Intervention: Formative Assessment ReimaginedDreamBox Learning
A new breed of technology is driving a shift in how we view and use formative assessment. When fully realized, educators will be engaged, empowered, and equipped to interrupt, disrupt, and prevent the failure to learn versus treating failed learning. Beyond information, formative assessment reimagined provides in-time insight and intelligence of, for, and by the learner to adapt and adjust learning, as the learner is learning—not after instruction. To that end, this webinar will focus on three essential learnings:
1) The what, why, and how of reimagined formative assessment;
2) The transformational impact of instructional and assessment integration; and
3) The results of assessing leading rather than trailing indicators of learning.
Lessons learned video in the online classroom 04_10_14_finalAshford University
As more and more universities implement online courses, instructors continually try to find ways to improve student perceptions, engagement, and learning in the online format while limiting challenges. Instructors often turn to different types of media such as video streaming, pdf files, and YouTube videos to enhance the learning environment. Students indicate a likeness for the convenience of online learning, but clear methods have not been established to improve learning in the online format compared to the traditional face-to-face format. We will present the benefits of adding video, the challenges of using video in the online classroom, and future research that we are considering.
Cooperative Learning for ELS in the ClassroomShovalina Helka
This document discusses cooperative learning, which focuses on small groups working together on tasks to promote social skills and accountability. It defines the five key elements of cooperative learning: positive interdependence, individual accountability, face-to-face interaction, collaborative skills, and group processing. Specific techniques for implementing cooperative learning are provided, such as assigning roles, using jigsaw activities, and establishing team policies and expectations to help students develop teamwork skills. General suggestions include starting small, explaining the purpose of cooperative learning to students, and expecting initial resistance from students accustomed to individual work.
Online Assessment and Feedback SeminarJulian Green
The document summarizes an online workshop about assessment and feedback. The session agenda covers what constitutes good assessment and feedback, and how digital tools can help achieve this. It then discusses principles of good assessment, including being transparent, reliable, valid, authentic. It also discusses principles of good feedback, including being timely, consistent, ongoing, actionable, friendly, and goal-oriented. Finally, it discusses how digital tools can enhance assessment and feedback, including through online questionnaires, audio feedback, and enabling peer and group assessments.
This document outlines key points from a faculty in-service event on effective generational teaching and learning for Millennials. The event focused on adapting teaching methods to better engage and collaborate with Millennial students by incorporating more technology, feedback, and career-focused learning. Faculty were encouraged to move away from long lectures and textbooks and toward shorter, interactive lessons using projects, simulations and real-world applications to motivate students and help them learn independently.
Silvana Richardson: Weighing the Pig Doesn't Make it Fatter or Does iteaquals
This document discusses evaluating continuing professional development (CPD) programs using Guskey's five levels of evaluation. It begins by establishing the importance of evaluation in determining a CPD offer's impact. Level 1 evaluates participants' reactions; Level 2, learning; Level 3, organizational support for change; Level 4, application of new knowledge and skills; and Level 5, students' learning outcomes. Various tools are provided for each level. The document encourages considering all levels and discusses challenges, like timing. It concludes by having participants reflect on their organization's evaluation practices and how to strengthen them.
Proactive Feedback Strategies in Online (and Offline) TeachingDavid Lynn Painter
Are you frustrated or overwhelmed when trying to balance punitive comments, or justifications for point deductions, with constructive criticism, or specific revision suggestions, in your evaluations of student assignments? Is listing the reasons points were deducted from student work the sole function of an effective teacher? How can instructors best manage their time to develop assignments and provide constructive criticism that fosters student learning and growth? If you find any of these questions compelling, please join our discussion on the struggle to balance objective and subjective criteria to develop positive, mentoring roles with your students.
FLEX pilot for Remaining in Good Standing Chrissi Nerantzi and Kath BothamChrissi Nerantzi
This document outlines a pilot project exploring the use of e-portfolios to demonstrate maintaining good standing for Higher Education Academy (HEA) Fellowship. The project involved 5 participants capturing their continuing professional development activities related to teaching in a Wordpress portfolio over 6 months. Participants provided peer support and feedback to each other through a "buddy system". The goal was to evaluate e-portfolios as a potential mechanism for fellows to evidence ongoing engagement with professional standards and development activities to maintain their fellowship status.
The document discusses investigating formative frameworks to understand how students' prior educational experiences influence their engagement and benefits from interventions. It involved students and staff in business management units. Stage 1 gathered staff and student viewpoints through interviews and surveys. Stage 2 sought to identify if students recognized changes and reflected key areas. The intervention designed formative tasks to complement lectures and assessments. Outcomes showed most students recognized changes and found tasks helped understand assessments. Next steps include a focus group to address issues around feedback. The document defines formative as creating or producing through effort to change composition, with activities supporting a formative process involving content, environment, teachers and assessment.
A 5E Lesson Plan to Promote the Use of Reflective-Reflexive Practices by In...Brehaniea Wight
EDLM6200 - Reflective-Reflexive Practices in Technology Enabled Environments
Link for full lesson plan: https://drive.google.com/file/d/17adoZAcv0x5clfB0IbgXc328d08awnJ3/view?usp=sharing
In today’s slideshare, we look at the use of digital technology to enhance reflective-reflexive practice in a 5E lesson plan. It is in response to a teacher’s sudden and drastic shift from the traditional classroom to a strictly online learning environment. While learning takes place in the synchronous environment through live conferences, it is supported using an asynchronous learning management platform.
The 5e model of instruction will empower the students to take responsibility for their own learning. The teacher will guide the students through the five phases - engage, explore, explain, elaborate, and evaluate. Students will engage in reflective-reflexive practice in each phase using online digital tools.. The reflective-reflexive process will incorporate works from reflective gurus such as
Kolb - learning through experience
Gibbs - emotional feelings, action plan
Brookfield - four critical lenses - self, peers, experts and literature
Schön’s reflective models - reflection before, during and after
The document provides guidance for developing effective collaboration in online courses. It emphasizes the importance of planning, coordination, feedback and reflection. Instructors should begin the course by engaging learners with introductory activities to familiarize them with course material and expectations. Throughout the course, instructors should model good collaborative behaviors, provide feedback, and evaluate activities to improve future collaboration.
In this webinar we will present a collection of classroom-based formative assessment techniques for elementary and middle grade mathematics teachers to not only consider, but also to use effectively—everyday. Our guest, Skip Fennell, will also discuss how particular formative assessment techniques can bridge to summative assessments and the preparation for such measures. Fennell will address the suggestion from the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics’ Principles to Actions: Ensuring Mathematical Success for All (2014) that educators leverage assessment opportunities to improve teaching and learning at the classroom and school level.
Real-time Assessment: A Guide for Emergency Remote TeachingFitri Mohamad
This is a set of materials from a webinar held for Universiti Malaysia Sarawak's lecturers (UNIMAS), to guide the transition from f2f teaching to emergency remote teaching - specifically on conducting Real-time Assessments.
The document discusses project-based learning (PBL) as an instructional approach where students learn by actively engaging in real-world and personally meaningful projects. It provides three key benefits of PBL according to research: 1) It increases long-term retention of content knowledge, 2) It helps students perform as well or better on assessments compared to traditional instruction, and 3) It improves students' problem-solving, collaboration skills, and attitudes towards learning. The document also notes that effective PBL involves students working in groups to answer a driving question or solve a problem, with teachers serving as facilitators. Overall, the research presented indicates that when implemented well, PBL can promote higher student achievement outcomes.
Action Learning Sets: An Innovative Way to Facilitate Writing for Publication Self Employed
Presentation given by Maria J Grant, Research Fellow, University of Salford, UK at the 7th International Evidence Based Library and Information Practice (EBLIP7) conference, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada, 15th-18th July 20013.
www.eblip7.library.usask.ca
The document summarizes key points from a TESTA masterclass on using research tools to understand student assessment. The masterclass covered:
- Defining formative and summative assessment
- Auditing a program's assessment using a 10-step guide
- Administering and analyzing data from the Assessment Experience Questionnaire (AEQ)
- Conducting and analyzing focus groups on student experiences
- Triangulating data from audits, AEQs, and focus groups to understand assessment in a program
- Effectively presenting findings to program teams to facilitate positive changes to assessment practices
Gamification Techniques to Engage StudentsD2L Barry
Gamification in D2L, Leslie Van Wolvelear, Oakton Community College
Presentation given on Dec 13, 2019 at DePaul University for the D2L Connection: Chicago Edition.
Discover strategies to increase student engagement in your courses and learn how to use Brightspace tools and college services to aid in student retention.
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: Revamping a Freshman Seminar Information Literacy Pro...Amanda Izenstark
The document summarizes revisions made to an information literacy program for freshman students at the University of Rhode Island. The original program consisted of a library tour, demonstration of the catalog, and worksheet. It was revised using backward design and assessment principles to make it more engaging for students and mentors. The revised program included a pre-activity research exercise, classroom session with discussion questions, and post-activity scavenger hunt. Assessment found students were more engaged and learned the intended goals and outcomes.
How identifying a theory of change can help you measure the success of your programs (and organization as a whole) and obtain funding to create social change.
Prevention to Intervention: Formative Assessment ReimaginedDreamBox Learning
A new breed of technology is driving a shift in how we view and use formative assessment. When fully realized, educators will be engaged, empowered, and equipped to interrupt, disrupt, and prevent the failure to learn versus treating failed learning. Beyond information, formative assessment reimagined provides in-time insight and intelligence of, for, and by the learner to adapt and adjust learning, as the learner is learning—not after instruction. To that end, this webinar will focus on three essential learnings:
1) The what, why, and how of reimagined formative assessment;
2) The transformational impact of instructional and assessment integration; and
3) The results of assessing leading rather than trailing indicators of learning.
Lessons learned video in the online classroom 04_10_14_finalAshford University
As more and more universities implement online courses, instructors continually try to find ways to improve student perceptions, engagement, and learning in the online format while limiting challenges. Instructors often turn to different types of media such as video streaming, pdf files, and YouTube videos to enhance the learning environment. Students indicate a likeness for the convenience of online learning, but clear methods have not been established to improve learning in the online format compared to the traditional face-to-face format. We will present the benefits of adding video, the challenges of using video in the online classroom, and future research that we are considering.
Cooperative Learning for ELS in the ClassroomShovalina Helka
This document discusses cooperative learning, which focuses on small groups working together on tasks to promote social skills and accountability. It defines the five key elements of cooperative learning: positive interdependence, individual accountability, face-to-face interaction, collaborative skills, and group processing. Specific techniques for implementing cooperative learning are provided, such as assigning roles, using jigsaw activities, and establishing team policies and expectations to help students develop teamwork skills. General suggestions include starting small, explaining the purpose of cooperative learning to students, and expecting initial resistance from students accustomed to individual work.
Online Assessment and Feedback SeminarJulian Green
The document summarizes an online workshop about assessment and feedback. The session agenda covers what constitutes good assessment and feedback, and how digital tools can help achieve this. It then discusses principles of good assessment, including being transparent, reliable, valid, authentic. It also discusses principles of good feedback, including being timely, consistent, ongoing, actionable, friendly, and goal-oriented. Finally, it discusses how digital tools can enhance assessment and feedback, including through online questionnaires, audio feedback, and enabling peer and group assessments.
This document outlines key points from a faculty in-service event on effective generational teaching and learning for Millennials. The event focused on adapting teaching methods to better engage and collaborate with Millennial students by incorporating more technology, feedback, and career-focused learning. Faculty were encouraged to move away from long lectures and textbooks and toward shorter, interactive lessons using projects, simulations and real-world applications to motivate students and help them learn independently.
Silvana Richardson: Weighing the Pig Doesn't Make it Fatter or Does iteaquals
This document discusses evaluating continuing professional development (CPD) programs using Guskey's five levels of evaluation. It begins by establishing the importance of evaluation in determining a CPD offer's impact. Level 1 evaluates participants' reactions; Level 2, learning; Level 3, organizational support for change; Level 4, application of new knowledge and skills; and Level 5, students' learning outcomes. Various tools are provided for each level. The document encourages considering all levels and discusses challenges, like timing. It concludes by having participants reflect on their organization's evaluation practices and how to strengthen them.
Proactive Feedback Strategies in Online (and Offline) TeachingDavid Lynn Painter
Are you frustrated or overwhelmed when trying to balance punitive comments, or justifications for point deductions, with constructive criticism, or specific revision suggestions, in your evaluations of student assignments? Is listing the reasons points were deducted from student work the sole function of an effective teacher? How can instructors best manage their time to develop assignments and provide constructive criticism that fosters student learning and growth? If you find any of these questions compelling, please join our discussion on the struggle to balance objective and subjective criteria to develop positive, mentoring roles with your students.
FLEX pilot for Remaining in Good Standing Chrissi Nerantzi and Kath BothamChrissi Nerantzi
This document outlines a pilot project exploring the use of e-portfolios to demonstrate maintaining good standing for Higher Education Academy (HEA) Fellowship. The project involved 5 participants capturing their continuing professional development activities related to teaching in a Wordpress portfolio over 6 months. Participants provided peer support and feedback to each other through a "buddy system". The goal was to evaluate e-portfolios as a potential mechanism for fellows to evidence ongoing engagement with professional standards and development activities to maintain their fellowship status.
This document outlines the Dick and Carey approach to developing effective instructional strategies and media selection, which involves analyzing learners, sequencing content, specifying learning activities, and choosing delivery methods. The four main elements of an instructional strategy are content sequence and clustering, learning components, student groupings, and selection of media and delivery systems. Educators are provided guidance on creating lesson plans that incorporate preinstructional strategies, instructional events, assessment, and follow through activities to effectively teach content based on learner and material considerations.
The document summarizes a workshop on integrating digital and information literacy into university curriculums. It introduces the Viewpoints project which provides tools to help curriculum design. The workshop involved breakout groups using information skills theme cards to address scenarios and map principles to a student learning timeline. Participants shared that the resources provided useful prompts for consideration and facilitated discussion on integrating digital capabilities.
This is the presentation that was delivered to the Viewpoints team at the first 'data day' - its aims were to show the immediate team the current stage of development and to discuss the data implications of the user interface and user choices.
The document summarizes a workshop on integrating digital and information literacy into university curriculums. It introduces the Viewpoints project which provides tools to help curriculum design. The workshop involved breakout groups using information skills theme cards to address scenarios and map principles to a student learning timeline. Participants shared that the resources provided useful prompts for consideration and facilitated discussion on integrating digital capabilities.
I’ll tell you mine if you tell me yours feedback workshopLeena Youssefi
This document provides an outline for a workshop on giving and receiving feedback. The workshop will cover various topics over a half day schedule, including the importance of feedback, different types of feedback, how to give and receive feedback, and how to analyze and apply feedback. The schedule includes two 10 minute breaks and a 45 minute lunch break. The workshop aims to dispel misconceptions about feedback and demonstrate how both giving and receiving feedback from peers and instructors can improve learning and performance. Models for giving feedback like the feedback sandwich and Pendleton model will also be discussed. Assignments related to providing constructive peer feedback will be outlined.
The Project Based Learning (PjBL) Toolkit: Integrating digital and social med...Sue Beckingham
Projects may be carried out by both individuals and within groups. The outputs might include a report, presentation, poster, artefact or prototype (physical or digital). Project based learning is “a teaching method in which students gain knowledge and skills by working for an extended period of time to investigate and respond to an engaging and complex question, problem, or challenge.” (BIE 2015).
When undertaking a project, seven distinct stages have been identified that the project owner(s) go through. These are: the question, plan, research, produce, improve, present and evaluate. At each stage students may engage in a variety of activities. This multifaceted form of learning presents opportunities to participate in authentic and meaningful problems and to develop a range of skills along the journey. Reflecting upon these experiences, can encourage students to reconstruct what they have learned, and go on to confidently articulate the skills they have developed (or have yet to develop), and how they can apply these in other situations. Learning how to self-reflect on these experiences and developing a habit of doing so, can have a profound impact on learning. However for some this does not come easily and is often undervalued.
In my talk I will share the Project Based Learning (PjBL) Toolkit and how resources within this can be used to scaffold effective and meaningful multimedia reflective practice, develop confident communication skills and digital capabilities.
Week 6 - Discussion 1 Your initial discussion thread is .docxco4spmeley
Week 6 - Discussion 1
Your initial discussion thread is due on Day 3 (Thursday) and you have until Day 7 (Monday) to respond to your classmates. Your grade will reflect both the quality of your initial post and the depth of your responses. Reference the
Discussion Forum Grading Rubric
for guidance on how your discussion will be evaluated.
Action Planning for Education Change
In Chapter 7, Mills (2014) discusses a variety of challenges action researchers face with implementing positive change.
What potential challenges or obstacles do you predict facing in your current or future role as an educator when implementing positive change (lack of resources, resistance to change, reluctance to interfere with others’ professional practices, reluctance to admit difficult truths, difficulty finding a forum to share what you have learned, lack of time for action research endeavors, unsupportive administration, other)?
Describe how you would apply what you have learned regarding the challenges of implementing educational change to overcome potential obstacles that you may encounter in taking action.
Guided Response:
Respond to a minimum of two classmates. Provide suggestions for overcoming their potential obstacles. What is something they shared that you hadn’t considered in your own future endeavors? *It is expected you follow-up by the last day of the week to provide a secondary response to any comments or questions your instructor may have provided. This is part of the grading criteria as a demonstration of critical thinking.
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Week 6 - Discussion 2
Your initial discussion thread is due on Day 3 (Thursday) and you have until Day 7 (Monday) to respond to your classmates. Your grade will reflect both the quality of your initial post and the depth of your responses. Reference the
Discussion Forum Grading Rubric
for guidance on how your discussion will be evaluated.
Final Self-Reflection
Describe some of your take-aways from this course. Consider all of the topics including use of digital tools when responding. Do not respond in list form. These are merely prompts to get you thinking:
What concepts or principles have you learned from this course that you might use in your work setting?
How do you feel about conducting action research now, compared to before you started this course?
Describe how you perceive the value of qualitative and quantitative data when considering improvements.
How do you plan to use the knowledge you gained in this course to be a positive change agent in your own work setting? In other words, what are your next steps?
Include a new, different quote than you did in you r week one introduction. Why does this quote inspire you?
Guided Response:
Respond to a minimum of two classmates. *It is expected you follow-up by the last day of the week to provide a secondary response to any comments or questions your instructor may have provided. This is part of the grading criteria as a demonstrati.
Robert Gagne's nine steps of instructional design provide a framework to effectively teach students new information. The nine steps are: 1) gain attention, 2) inform learners of objectives, 3) stimulate recall of prior knowledge, 4) present the content, 5) provide learning guidance, 6) elicit performance, 7) provide feedback, 8) assess performance, and 9) enhance retention and transfer. Following these steps helps ensure students are engaged, understand goals, can connect new material to existing knowledge, receive information in an organized way, get assistance and practice applying knowledge with feedback to promote learning retention and application.
The document outlines an introduction to the Viewpoints project, which aims to promote effective curriculum design through a series of reflective tools. It then describes activities for a workshop introducing the Viewpoints resources, which focus on learner engagement, information skills, assessment and feedback, and creativity and innovation. Participants work in groups using the Viewpoints principles and resources to address scenarios and share their outputs. The benefits of the Viewpoints approach are discussed, including how the resources and workshop process can help build effective course teams and facilitate discussions.
Week 4 (Nov 15 - Nov 21)Apply It! ActivityDue DateFo.docxcockekeshia
Week 4 (Nov 15 - Nov 21)
Apply It!
Activity
Due Date
Format
Grading Percent
How to Learn from Mistakes
Day 3
Discussion
5
21st Century Learning Activity
Day 7
Assignment
7
Note: The online classroom is designed to time students out after 90 minutes of inactivity. Because of this, we strongly suggest that you compose your work in a word processing program and copy and paste it into the discussion post when you are ready to submit it.
Learning Outcomes
This week students will:
1. Construct a 21st century inquiry-based learning activity that includes differentiated instructional strategies and learning styles as part of the instructional methods.
2. Design a content-based activity that includes self-reflection and shared feedback opportunities for students.
Introduction
In Week Four, you build upon your learning from the first three weeks by considering elements of capacity building for educators. You look through a variety of lenses, supporting Course Learning Outcome 2: Use a variety of content-based instructional materials and strategies supporting inquiry-based learning, student reflection, and technology. You get an inspiring glimpse into the world of an engaging classroom teacher and learn of the powerful impact your practice as an educator can have on student learning. This week, you apply the principles from Framework for 21st Century Learning to create an engaging, inquiry-based student activity to implement with students and share with other educators. You have the opportunity to get creative and apply what you’ve learned in a way that follows best practices and potentially transfers to your own practice in the future.
Required Resources
1. Ash, P. B., & D’Auria, J. (2013). School systems that learn: Improving professional practice, overcoming limitations, and diffusing innovation. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin.
· Chapter 5: Capacity Building for All Educators.
2. Partnership for 21st Century Skills. (n.d.). Framework for 21st century learning. Retrieved from http://www.p21.org/about-us/p21-framework
· This website is the home page for the Partnership for 21st Century Skills organization, an organization promoting learning in what it calls the “The 3Rs and the 4Cs” for the 21st century. The website has numerous links to resources and information about the organization at work, news about the Partnership for 21st Century Skills organization, as well as a link page devoted to “Exemplar Schools.”
3. TED.com. (2010, November 10). Diana Laufenberg: How to learn? From mistakes [Video file]. Retrieved from http://www.ted.com/talks/diana_laufenberg_3_ways_to_teach
· Diane Laufenberg, an 11th grade history teacher in Philadelphia’s Science Leadership Academy, offers 3 ideas about learning in this 10 minute TED video. One surprising idea is that failure can lead to learning and eventual success. One way that others have expressed this idea is to “fail forward,” taking lessons from failure to lay the foundation for future success.
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Robert Gagne's nine steps of instructional design provide a framework to effectively teach students new information. The nine steps are: 1) gain attention, 2) inform learners of objectives, 3) stimulate recall of prior knowledge, 4) present the content, 5) provide learning guidance, 6) elicit performance, 7) provide feedback, 8) assess performance, and 9) enhance retention and transfer. Following these steps helps ensure students are engaged, understand goals, can connect new content to existing knowledge, comprehend the material through creative delivery, get assistance and practice applying knowledge to demonstrate understanding and receive feedback to improve.
Robert Gagne's nine steps of instructional design provide a framework to effectively teach students new information. The nine steps are: 1) gain attention, 2) inform learners of objectives, 3) stimulate recall of prior knowledge, 4) present the content, 5) provide learning guidance, 6) elicit performance, 7) provide feedback, 8) assess performance, and 9) enhance retention and transfer. Following these steps helps ensure students are engaged, understand goals, can connect new material to existing knowledge, comprehend the content, get support and feedback, and can apply what they've learned. Using this model aims to create an impactful learning experience for students.
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Assignment 2: Fink Step 3
Due Week 7 and worth 200 points
For this assignment, you will look at the technology you have integrated into your unit/training and develop ways to assess student performance when they use those technologies.
Often, educators find a great new technology or app to use with their students but then have no idea how to evaluate if it is actually helping students learn. Or, educators find that grading student performance using the new technology is cumbersome and doesn’t actually save any time or provide any value.
For example, if students have an assignment to create a PowerPoint presentation, how will they submit it to you? How will you check to make sure they didn’t just copy it from someplace on the Internet? If students are working on a group project, how can you assess student contributions? These are some issues you will need to think about when you apply technology to your lessons.
First, provide a brief (1-2 pages) description of the specific education technology you intend to incorporate into your unit/training. Include links to the product or app and describe how the students will use it. You do not need to provide specific lesson plans, but need to demonstrate that you have a clear idea of what you want the students to use and how they will use it.
For example, if you were to start using MS Office in the classroom, you could describe how you would allow students to type their papers using MS Word and create presentations using MS PowerPoint instead of hand-writing papers and doing traditional poster projects.
Next, complete the questions for Step 3 of page 15 of Fink’s guide. Include the following information when you answer each question in the worksheet. You will have to copy each question to a new Word document in order to answer it.
1. Forward-looking Assessment: The key is that you have students work on real-world problems. Think about how they will apply the knowledge you are teaching as well as how they will use the technology in the future. How can you create assessments such as a class project, portfolio assignment, a case-study, or other activity where they apply their knowledge?
2. Criteria & Standards: Think about what qualifies as poor work that does not meet your standards, satisfactory work that does meet your standards, and excellent work that exceeds your standards. Be specific. Look at your assignment rubrics for examples of this.
3. Self-Assessment: Students should have some idea of how they are doing without having to ask the teacher or instructor. How will you help them evaluate their own work and learning as they work on their assignments?
4. “FIDeLity” Feedback: This will be the formal feedback that you will give to students as well as informal feedback you will give them as they work on their assignments and assessments.
It would be a good idea to use the information that you provided for the discussion questions in the following weeks. (Note: you are not expected to use all of it if ...
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Instructional Design Online Course Outline and Justifications (MIDT, OUM)
1. HMLT 5203 Course Redesign
Master of Instructional Design & Technology
Open University of Malaysia
When we deal in generalities, we shall never succeed. When we deal in specifics,
we shall rarely have a failure. When performance is measured, performance
improves. When performance is measured and reported, the rate of improvement
accelerates.
Thomas S. Monson
T. Damian Boyle
August 10, 2014
2. Activity 1: 5X5 Blog Posts. Six Weeks. Value: 20%
The organization of knowledge should be an essential concern of the teacher or
educational planner so that the direction from simple to complex is not from
arbitrary, meaningless parts to meaningful wholes, but instead from simplified
wholes to complex wholes (Knowles, 1988).
The Adult Learner, p.248
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3. Activity 1: 5X5 Blog Posts. Six Weeks. Value: 20%
To End of Week Six:
Five Point Blog Entries, Five Times per Week (5X5 Posts)
One Annotated Database Addition (Book, Article, Video, Web Site...)
One Comment (Observation, Reflection, Musing, Speculation….)
One Dialogue Contribution (To invite, encourage and extend discussions.)
One Question (To provoke critical thinking and drive exploration.)
One Record of Time on Task (Minutes for each of above four items.)
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4. Activity 1: 5X5 Blog Posts. Six Weeks. Value: 20%
Purposes of 5X5 Blog Posts:
To develop skills for enquiry, discovery, synthesis, and interaction.
To develop a subject matter knowledge base and data base.
To develop a shared data base for future reference.
To foster broad, deep, far reaching, and well informed discussions.
To encourage routine engagement with materials and participants.
To establish measurable criteria for assessments.
To provide hard data for course re-design considerations.
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5. Activity 1: 5X5 Blog Posts. Six Weeks. Value: 20%
Note 1:
Questions, Comments, Data Base Additions, and Dialogue Contributions to
other participants count for both content and time for your own required
Blog Entries, and not for theirs.
Note 2:
Five Point Daily Blog Entries may be submitted on later dates, as life
circumstances dictate, but general timeliness will be an overall evaluation
consideration. Communication of needs for delayed participation is required
in advance for other than emergent needs.
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6. Activity 1: 5X5 Blog Posts. Six Weeks. Value: 20%
Internet Research (How to Look & How to Judge)
http://edunorth.wordpress.com/research/
Questions
http://edunorth.wordpress.com/questions/
Thinking
http://edunorth.wordpress.com/thinking/
Writing Resources
http://edunorth.wordpress.com/writing/
Assessment
http://edunorth.wordpress.com/assessment/
Instructional Design
http://edunorth.wordpress.com/instructional-design/
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7. Activity 2: Formative Evaluation. One Week. Value: 5%.
The single most critical aspect of the role of program administrator is to function
as a developer of human resources development personnel.
The Adult Learner, p. 130
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8. Activity 2: Formative Evaluation. One Week. Value: 5%.
During Week Three:
Tripartite formative evaluations of each participant’s work will be based on
the quantity and quality of the Five Point Daily Blog Entries.
Each participant will rate every other participant, and themselves, using a
provided 5X5 Rubric.
The Instructor will present their ratings last, using the same 5X5 Rubric.
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9. Activity 2: Formative Evaluation. One Week. Value: 5%.
Purposes of Formative Evaluation:
To develop assessment skills.
To provide reference standards for assessment comparisons
To provide balanced performance assessments to each participant.
To inform Instructor and participants of needs for support and guidance.
To foster frank discussions.
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10. Activity 2: Formative Evaluation. One Week. Value: 5%.
Note:
Participants may use evaluations as the basis for Blog postings.
For Reference:
Tripartite Evaluation Method
http://edunorth.wordpress.com/workplace-skills/
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11. Activity 3: Article Writing. Six Weeks. Value: 25%.
Adult education is a process through which learners become aware of significant
experience. Recognition of experience leads to evaluation. Meanings accompany
experience when we know what is happening and what importance the event has
for our personalities.
Eduard Lindeman (1926)
The Adult Learner, p.37
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12. Activity 3: Article Writing. Six Weeks. Value: 25%.
To End of Week Six:
Research, Write, and Present an Article on a Negotiated Topic.
Note:
Each participant’s Article must be shared with all other participants.
Note:
Five Point Rating Scale, With Five Considerations (5X5 Scoring Rubric).
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13. Activity 3: Article Writing. Six Weeks. Value: 25%.
Purposes of Article Writing:
To develop research, critical thinking, and technical writing skills.
To provide latitude for exploration of areas of interest.
To develop awareness of current data and perspectives.
To develop subject matter knowledge and expertise.
To provide grounds for informed discussions.
To maximise fidelity with workplace practices of document sharing.
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14. Activity 4: Article Critiques. Three Weeks. Value: 25%.
This concern for environmental facilitation of interaction among the learners is
supported by the behaviourists’ concept of immediacy of feedback, the importance
placed on the learner having an active role is supported by Dewey, and the
utilization of the constructive forces in groups is supported by field theorists and
humanistic psychologists.
The Adult Learner, p.118.
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15. Activity 4: Article Critiques. Three Weeks. Value: 25%.
To End of Week Nine:
Critique and Evaluation of Participants’ Articles
Each participant must review and rate all of the (assigned) articles using a
provided 5X5 Rubric.
Each participant must provide feedback to every other participant in the
form of 5X5 Ratings Documents, Questions, Comments, and Database
Additions, as Blog postings.
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16. Activity 4: Article Critiques. Three Weeks. Value: 25%.
Purposes of Article Critiques and Evaluations:
To develop critical reading and thinking skills.
To broaden and deepen knowledge of pertinent topics.
To provide experience with critique, evaluation, and feedback.
To provide balanced performance assessment and feedback.
To maximise fidelity with workplace practices of document development.
To foster frank discussions.
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17. Activity 5: Course Re-Design. Ten Weeks. Value: 10%.
Single-loop learning is learning that fits prior experiences and existing values,
which enables the learner to respond in an automatic way. Double-loop learning is
learning that does not fit the learner’s prior experiences or schema. Generally it
requires learners to change their mental schema in a fundamental way.
The Adult Learner, p.188.
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18. Activity 5: Course Re-Design. Ten Weeks. Value: 10%.
To End of Week Ten:
Each participant must present their HMLT 5203 Course Re-Design
Recommendations and Justifications to all other participants for discussion.
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19. Activity 5: Course Re-Design. Ten Weeks. Value: 10%.
Purposes Of HMLT 5203 Course Re-Design:
To develop a practice of continual improvement.
To provide Participants with a range of perspectives.
To provide the Instructor with feedback about the course design.
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20. Activity 6: Re-Design Evaluation. One Week. Value: 5%.
When applied to the organization of adult education, a democratic philosophy
means that the learning activities will be based on the real needs and interests of
the participants; that the policies will be determined by a group that is a
representative of all participants; and that there will be a maximum of
participation by all members of the organization in sharing responsibility for
making and carrying out decisions.
The Adult Learner, p. 108.
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21. Activity 6: Re-Design Evaluation. One Week. Value: 5%.
To End of Week Eleven:
Each participant will rate every other participant’s work on Course Re-Design
Recommendations and Justifications, and their own, using a provided 5X5
Rubric.
Evaluations will be shared with all participants for discussion and
negotiation.
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22. Activity 6: Re-Design Evaluation. One Week. Value: 5%.
Purposes of HMLT 5203 Course Re-Design Evaluations:
To develop practices of critical reflection and assessment.
To provide balanced performance assessments to each participant.
To foster frank discussions.
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23. Activity 7: Summative Evaluation. One Week. Value: 5%.
Human resource development practitioners, while always valuing experience,
increasingly emphasize experiential learning as a means to improve performance
(Swanson, 1996). Action reflection learning is one technique developed to focus
on learners’ experiences and integrate experience into the learning process (ARL
Inquiry, 1996).
The Adult Learner, p.196.
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24. Activity 7: Summative Evaluation. One Week. Value: 5%.
To End of Week Twelve:
Summative Evaluation of 5x5 Blog Posts and Overall Performance
Tripartite evaluations of each participant’s work will be based on the quantity
and quality of the contributions by participants throughout the course.
A 5X5 Scoring Rubric will be used.
Evaluations will be shared with all for discussion and negotiation.
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25. Activity 7: Summative Evaluation. One Week. Value: 5%.
Purposes of Summative Evaluation:
To develop practices of critical review, reflection, and assessment.
To provide balanced performance assessments to each participant.
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Notes are included with slides as Speaker Notes.
Speaker Notes include background information which the Speaker may or may not present explicitly, but would need to be prepared to address.
All participants have an equal responsibility for contributing inputs in what is intended as a group learning experience. My observation during the HMLT 5203 course was that demonstrable participation by participants was quite uneven, for reasons about which I can only speculate. For example, the Survey I sent out as part of this Re-Design assignment had only five anonymous responses. (In addition to my own: one full response, with comments, and three partial responses, with scale ratings only.) To encourage equal contributions from participants, I believe that their disclosed involvement with the evaluation process would be beneficial. Also, to effectively guide academic development by participants, they must be provided with prompt and meaningful feedback. It is from this perspective that I have approached this Course Re-Design activity.
I have chosen to use quotes from The Adult Learner to provide advance organizers for the component sections, a la David Ausubel, as a way of honouring and promoting the work of Malcolm Knowles, Eduard Lindemann, and others.
I read The Adult Learner during July of 2014, while working through this course, and found it a rich source of information. I now recommend it highly as THE single best starting point for anyone seriously interested in the field, and wish I had encountered it much sooner. (I found the typesetting to be appallingly poor, however.)
Knowles, M. S., Holton, E. F., & Swanson, R. A. (2012). The Adult Learner (Seventh Edition). New York: Routledge.
Activities will run parallel to one another. Time indicated is for Activity Completion Dates (Deadlines). This provides a single continuous flow of shared open activity rather than consecutive starts and stops of discrete closed activities.
Note: Record of Time on Task is to identify how many minutes are spent each day on each component task: Annotations, Comments, Dialogues, Questions.
I believe that Michael Anderson (2012) asks some cogent questions, and posits some worthwhile considerations, relating to the task at hand.
THE QUESTION OF DESIGN IMPACT
A collaborative community organized by adult learners creates coherent group identification. That community can be instantiated by focusing initial social interactions on solving the technological and pedagogical problems of online delivery. While numerous research studies (Ehman, L., Bonk, C. & Yamagata-Lynch, L., 2005; Gaible, E. & Burns, M., 2005; Kayler, M.A. & Swanson, K.W., 2008; Gallimore, R., Ermeling, B.A., Saunders. W.M., & Goldenberg, C., 2009) have demonstrated the value of modeling to faculty professional development, little research has been conducted on the role of modeling in online faculty workshops. The lack of interaction in most online courses suggests that current practices of merely recommending interaction in online courses is ineffective. The failure of communities to develop among faculty members may be due to the absence of a contextual model, a problem-centered and practice-focused community of passion among online instructors that serves as a paradigm for community development in their own courses. The use of authentic problems drawn from the online faculty development community itself and resolved through collaboration with mentors may increase the implementation of interaction in online courses. The incorporation of mentoring and mentored roles within that community may even create a flow experience for participants, an experience which in turn leads to durability; if community participation produces effective online instructional solutions, the faculty members will see results in their online courses.
Anderson, M.W., (2012). Staying Online: A Design for a Sustainable Community of Practice for Online Instructors. (Master’s Report). Retrieved from: http://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/bitstream/handle/2152/ETD-UT-2012-08-6181/ANDERSON-MASTERS-REPORT.pdf?sequence=1
Activity 1 Justification
To my mind, the point of transition to a more broadly useful approach to thinking about computer assisted instruction – and instructional design – came with the acknowledgement of the Human in the equation. This came to the fore in work done by Polson, Spector, and Tennyson for the Armstrong Laboratory (1991):
Polson argues that a system which allows students
to perform some planning and monitoring promotes the development
of regulatory skills essential for expert performance. As a
result, in order to be effective, CBI must be highly interactive
and the interactions must be designed around appropriate
knowledge structures.
Recent work on “problem solving and knowledge construction in ill structured domains” is also supportive of my approach (Wu, Wang, Spector, & Yang. 2013):
The proposed DML [Dual-Mapping Learning] approach was underpinned by the cognitive apprenticeship model (Collins et al., 1991), an instructional paradigm based on situated cognition and directly aligned with PBL [Problem Based Learning]. Based on the cognitive apprenticeship model, learning in problem contexts should consider: (a) situating abstract tasks in authentic contexts, (b) making complex tasks and thinking processes visible, and (c) providing necessary help to learners. Different from traditional schooling methods, the cognitive apprenticeship model emphasizes that abstract tasks and thinking processes must be made visible, i.e., making expert knowledge and practice explicit for learners to observe, enact, and finally practice. Further, six cognitive strategies including articulation, reflection, exploration, modeling, coaching, and scaffolding are proposed in the cognitive apprenticeship model.
This activity immediately casts participants like pebbles into the pond, as recommended by David Merrill (2002), to begin working on pertinent tasks in a process that will grow to encompass fuller considerations of larger problems. Blog postings provide an opportunity for learners to explore and draft the ideas and content for their Articles and Course Re-Design proposals, and make stylistic and substantive revisions to these materials based their own reflections and the inputs of other participants. Rather than being a separate activity from the Article preparation activity, and the subsequent Course Re-Design activity, it is actually integral to both of these.
The requirement for five relatively small whole-tasks (chunks) to be completed five times per week is intended to encourage steady engagement with the course materials, activities, and with other participants. The five component whole-tasks are believed to each be small enough, and simple enough, to be achievable by those with minimal prior academic preparation without requiring onerous efforts. The routine repetition of these small whole-tasks is believed to provide sufficient practice to develop important academic skills and habits relatively quickly. Each component small whole-task will later be but a part-task of a much larger whole-tasks, which are the Article and Course Re-Design assignments. Thus one activity flows alongside and then into another, with increasing levels of complexity. This process is intended to distribute the cognitive load relating to the Article and Course Re-Design assignments, and foster a moderate pace.
These ideas about part and whole tasks, skills development, and cognition are expounded by van Merrienboer & Kirschner (2013), as may be seen in the following quotations from their work:
Learning tasks are preferably based on real-life or professional tasks. This ensures that the tasks make an appeal on knowledge, skills as well as attitudes. Such integration has positive effects on transfer of learning, that is, the ability to transfer what has been learned to new professional situations or real life.
...
Learning tasks drive learning from concrete experiences or ‘learning by doing’. The main underlying learning process is inductive learning.
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First, learning tasks are different from each other on surface features. Despite differences in surface features, tasks are performed in the same fashion. ...
Second, learning tasks should be different from each other on structural features. Tasks that differ from each other on structural features should be performed in different ways.
...
Cognitive feedback. This type of feedback helps the learner to critically compare and contrast the quality of own mental models with the mental models of experts or peers, and to compare and contrast the quality of own cognitive strategies with the cognitive strategies of experts or peers. Reflection is critical in this process.
Work by Fink (2005) also appears to be significantly supportive of my approach. I am gratified by this, and here recommend it to the reader. Others have already confirmed the general validity of Fink’s approach, which I find reassuring (Fallahi, 2011).
References:
Armstrong Laboratory, Human Resource Directorate, Technical Training Research Division. (1991). Designing an Advanced Instructional Design Advisor: Cognitive Science Foundations. Volume 1. Retrieved from: http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a236560.pdf
Fallahi, C. (2011). Using Fink’s Taxonomy in Course Design
Observer Vol.24, No.7 September, 2011 http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/publications/observer/2011/september-11/using-finks-taxonomy-in-course-design.html
Fink, L.D. (2005). A Self-Directed Guide to Designing Courses for Significant Learning. Retrieved from: http://finkconsulting.info/major-publications/
Merrill, M. D. (2002). A pebble-in-the-pond model for instructional design. Performance Improvement. 41(7), 39-44. http://www.ispi.org/pdf/Merrill.pdf
van Merrienboer, J. J. G. & Kirschner, P. A. (2013). Ten Steps to Complex Learning (Second Edition). New York: Routledge.
Wu, B., Wang, M., Spector, J. M., & Yang, S. J. H. (2013). Design of a Dual-Mapping Learning Approach for Problem Solving and Knowledge Construction in Ill-Structured Domains. Educational Technology & Society, 16 (4), 71–84. http://www.ifets.info/journals/16_4/6.pdf
Some starting points for your consideration.
My observation has been that some of the participants in the HMLT 5203 course were apparently not skilled with academic research and discourse. I do not regard this as a particular weakness or a deficiency of the course or the MIDT program as an acceptable entry level of experience and skills. However, where the requisite skills are not already developed, participants must be supported and guided with working on these foundational aspects.
I believe that it is no accident that van Merrienboer & Kirschner chose to use the topic of academic research as a notable illustration in their work Ten Steps to Complex Learning (2013).
Activity 2 Justification
It is my belief that awareness of the close scrutiny of the community of peers involved with the evaluation exercises will motivate participants to apply their best efforts to completing the 5X5 Blog Entries and other assigned tasks. This is an attempt to leverage of enculturated social responses of individuals vis-à-vis the judgements of the members of the community that they identify with. I first encountered this tripartite method of evaluation in the Saskatchewan NewStart Life Skills Coach Training, and found it there very effective.
This tripartite evaluation method provides multiple experiences for all participants with the practice of evaluations. It provides a 360 Degree review of each participant to ensure balance and fairness. The Instructor participates last in this so that participants have a reference standard by which to judge their own judgements reflexively. The Instructor retains the right to rule on the final assessment.
The Five Point Rating Scale includes a Zero for non-performance, or ineffective performance, which may be recorded as Incomplete for progression considerations. Where evidence of good faith efforts has been shown, alternative arrangements for completion of course activities may be negotiated – at the Instructor’s discretion.
For Reference:
Canadian Alliance of Life Skills Coaches and Associations
http://calsca.com/
Behavioral Change Models
http://sphweb.bumc.bu.edu/otlt/MPH-Modules/SB/SB721-Models/SB721-Models.html
The impact of non-cognitive skills on outcomes for young people
http://educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk/uploads/pdf/Non-cognitive_skills_literature_review.pdf
Note: The tripartite evaluation example provided is not the actual instrument that would be used. The intended instrument would be similar in design, however.
Activity 3 Justification
Negotiation of a Topic for an Article acknowledges the Learner’s ability to determine appropriate directions for exploration according to their interests and needs. This turns control of direction over to the Learner, as Malcolm Knowles advises. It also ensures that the Learner will be appropriately supported and guided in the developmental process as required, as recommended by Van Merrienboer and Kirsch (2013).
Sharing Articles is consistent with the use of documents produced in the workplace, and thus provides an activity with relatively high fidelity to the application situation, as recommended by Van Merrienboer and Kirsch (2013).
Negotiation would ensure that adequate attention is paid to theoretical foundations by a historical review. The Instructor would be expected to also provide ongoing guidance to major considerations by asking questions in Blog postings. The Instructor must maintain a presence as a guide in the process.
Note: Article may be written in any language, so long as a reasonable translation is also provided. Machine translations may be acceptable for this purpose. Resources are posted at: http://edunorth.wordpress.com/languages/
Assuming a relatively small number of participants, each participant would be required to review all of the articles. An upper limit of 15 articles for review by each participant is proposed.
Activity 4 Justification
This is also about providing maximum value to the consumer for their money spent. Participants will receive a much larger body of information in this way than they could possibly have generated by themselves in the same amount of time. It is believed that a broad range of theories will also be critically considered and absorbed in the process.
That this is not already being done leaves me wondering if there is some Intellectual Property concern that the OUM has rightly respected.
In my own experience with the HMLT 5203 course, I felt profoundly disappointed with – and frustrated by – the lack of substantial sharing of information and ideas. As a consequence, I began revisiting alternate Master’s Degree programs from other institutions. The OUM may attract consumers with relatively low financial costs, but it will not retain them by also providing low value for money spent. This is the value proposition that the MIDT Program at OUM must resolve.
My evaluation of the course has driven my Re-Design of the course.
There may or may not be a better way to approach the problem. How would we know for sure?
Presentation is the easy part.
Activity 5 Justification
Much the same as for Activity 2.
When do we become that which we aspire to be?
When we start doing it.
If you don’t agree with a rating you have received, you may attempt to persuade others to your point of view based on evidence that supports your position.
Activity 6 Justification
As stated.
Experience without conscious and critical reflection may not yield all of the potential lessons to be learned.
For Reference:
An Introduction to Project Management
http://www.usbr.gov/excellence/Finals/FinalIntroPM.pdf
If you don’t agree with a rating you have received, you may attempt to persuade others to your point of view based on evidence that supports your position.
Activity 7 Justification
Much the same as for Activity 2.
Note: The Instructor retains the right to final assessment in all cases.
A group photo of your Instructors.
Trust us. We know what we’re doing.