Talk:Eric's Portfolio

Instructor comments on your analysis and objectives -- Jz833665 (talk) 22:33, 21 October 2013 (EDT)

Eric-

Nice progress so far.

1) Be consistent and clear: The learner of your course should be students; even though teachers will "use" it by adopting or learning from the lessons. So your learning outcomes and objectives should all target the students, with outcomes being more general; objectives more performance-based and specific.

Re. 2. The nature of what is to be learned Using project based learning to facilitate learning of the Civil War gives students an opportunity to meet, discuss, plan and evaluate the information they have found with other students. Through collaboration, the groups will learn about the Civil War from a variety of perspectives, not just the North. Students will explore what it was like to be a soldier during this time and what the “home front” looked like. Using project based learning helps students collaborate with other students to truly master the topic. By students finding out what is important and what is necessary to complete the task, they get a greater sense of accomplishment and knowledge after completing the assignment.

This section should elaborate more on the nature of the learning outcomes, such as deep understanding of x, intellectual problem solving re. y, attitude toward.... See the learning outcome unit about these important categories.

Instructor comments on your objectives -- Jz833665 (talk) 14:48, 1 November 2013 (EDT)

Hi Eric,

The outcomes for students are clear.

The performance objectives should be coherent with the outcomes and further elaborate the outcomes into performance-based terms.

I know that your outcome statements are quick specific already and look like performance objectives. The difference between outcomes and performance objectives is that the former will define the nature and scope of learning: understanding of the reason of this war; intellectual skills for finding and using sources... while the latter specifies these into performance-based statement.

The following objectives for educators/users can be included into a rationale section, which may be put in the beginning of your page:

Performance Objectives

1. Users of this course will be able to create a project based learning experience for students with emphasis on the Civil War.

2. Users of this course will be able to evaluate the effectiveness of Project based learning and show how it led to greater knowledge retention and growth.

Instructor comments on your analysis and objectives and ICM -- Jz833665 (talk) 10:25, 16 November 2013 (EST)

Nic progress.

The following objective needs to be rephrased using performance-based terms (what performance indicates such knowledge) - gain knowledge of the Civil War, the major dates,battles, people and events that occurred throughout.

As a project-based learning initiative, you do not have to address each objective using a unit activity. Instead please feel free to integrate some of the objectives to address them through whole tasks (that evolve into sub-tasks/activities).