Talk:Unit 1: Online safety: What is it?

Feedback on your course -- Jianwei Zhang 15:14, 25 April 2009 (EDT)

Nice progress! Several issues to consider in refining your design:

(a) Move information about prerequisites to your portfolio page. If you want to prime/activate participants' knowledge re. these prerequisites, you may draft a brief paragraph/text for them to read or design a preparatory activity (e.g., answering related questions).

(b) Learning design: The current approach you're using seems very information-transmission-oriented. I think the learning process would be become much more engaging and interactive by beginning with an authentic problem/story (e.g., a student case of online safety), asking the participants to think about what happened, why, and how to protect, etc, using the information you provided and activities you designed.

(c) Course flow: The pieces (e.g., wiki texts, notes, slides) you produced seem a bit disconnected, at least from the learner/user's point of view. You should enable a nature flow through these pieces and help the users/learners understand this flow: For what goals, what am I doing, what's next, why to do this, then what...

(d) Think about integrating your notes and slides, for example, by putting the related note texts into the note area under each slide in Powerpoint. Currently they are hard to decode, connect, and integrate.

(e) Your unit 2 on how the Internet works reads a bit too thick/dense. Do learners really need to know all of what you've provided in order to understand the issues of online safety you're focusing on?