Talk:Anne de la Chapelle's Portfolio Page

Instructor Comments on your analyses and objectives -- Jz833665 14:04, 7 March 2010 (EST)

Anne,

You've chosen a meaningful and authentic topic for the minicourse. I like your detailed analysis of the context, needs, and the learner that will inform your course design. Nice work!

A factor related to the context is to clarify if there will be any "instructor" to facilitate this course and respond to learners' questions.

You need to work on the course-level objectives of learning following what we have learned in Week 7.

Anne's response

Jiawei, Thank you for your feedback. I added a bit about instructors to my statement of intent and added my objectives.

Instructor Comments on your objectives and ICM -- Jz833665 17:49, 21 March 2010 (EDT)

Anne, nice progress! A few suggestions:

(a) Your course-level objectives could be sharpened and clarified. Although these objectives are interconnected; each of them needs to be unique and substantive in order to be treated as an objective. For example, among the items, #1 (Create a learner centered course) almost encompasses everything listed. Think about narrowing it down to something like: understand learner-centered design for online learning (specific principles). I'd imagine that outcomes of learning can be elaborated into several construct/objectives such as understand... (principled understanding and concept), adopt guidelines of...(practice-based strategies) develop an online course by converting...(skills/procedures, drawing on the understandings and strategies).

(b) After refining your objectives, you'll need to refine your map accordingly. The ICM means to sequence your objectives and prerequisites, not so much to map out your activities.

(c) I'm wondering whether it is practical to assume that the learners already have the "Knowledge of the Seven Principles of Effective Teaching" (one of your prerequisites).