Talk:Christopher Cheung's Portfolio

-- Jianwei Zhang (talk) 14:54, 7 October 2014 (EDT)

Instructor comments on your instructional analysis

Hi Christopher,

Your design project is addressing an important topic. Your needs assessment is very solid and helpful in understanding the current practices and gaps. Based on the information collected, you need to add a section in your portfolio to define the scope and nature/types of learning outcomes (what the participants will learn in this course). These outcomes will be further clarified through defining performance based objectives based on the reading of the current week.

Also, collaboration is more than small team/group work, but to creative learning communities that work together to advance collective understanding while supporting individual learning. The readings on learning communities in this course will be helpful for you.

instructor comment on your task analysis and instructional curriculum map -- Jianwei Zhang (talk) 14:48, 3 November 2014 (EST)

Overall your performance objectives are clearly defined and appropriately sequenced. A few refinements to make:

1) Re. one of your objectives: Explain the importance of collaboration and technology in a community of learning

The same objective is stated a bit differently in your map (explain how collaboration with tech improve learning). I feel that the statement in your map is more specific.

2) I think you unit 1 needs to address an objective to understand what the different collaboration tools are good for, before working on the specific tools.

3) Your map lists a course level target objective: describe different types of technologies... The verb "describe" seems too low for this objective.

Chris' Response

I have addressed points one and three. I will upload the updated curriculum map shortly. As for your second point, I was planning on including a lesson in Unit 1 that describes the different types of technology-mediated collaboration tools (synchronous, asynchronous, text-based, etc.), and then explain more in depth how it can be used in the later units...