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Talk:Unit 2: Benefits and Potential Issues with Collaborative Learning and Technology

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Developmental Tryout -- Katie Matthews (talk) 20:40, 24 April 2013 (EDT)

Hi Ryan,

It looks like you're made a great start to your course, which is about a highly relevant topic! I'll start with some of my thoughts from your Introduction page and then go into Unit 2 specifically.

Will the available collaborative technologies be discussed in one of your units? It is unclear to me if you are incorporating information about specific technologies in any of your units. It might be helpful to summarize the available technologies so your learners know what is out there for them to include in their lesson in Unit 3.

Your objectives do not explicitly describe how the outcome will be measured. I know they don't have to, but we spent a good deal of time on the five-component objectives and I think it would be helpful for the learners to know what activities will be used to assess their achievement of the learning objectives. For example, "Demonstrate an understanding of the benefits that technology supported collaborative learning activities can have on students through an online, collaborative discussion."

I love the incorporation of Google Groups to have a discussion. You're modeling exactly what your unit is about!

Those are two excellent sources and they truly complement the information you already gave. You don't go into a lot of detail about the potential problems, and I think that's good, because we get that detail from the article!

That's a lot of consecutive text in the Benefits section. Break it up with a picture, maybe?

Consider adding a question to your discussion which addresses the upcoming lesson design assignment. You could ask students which benefits they hope to gain through the use of collaborative technology in their own lesson. It gets them thinking about what they might want to do in their project in advance of Unit 3.

Overall, I really think I could learn a lot from your course. Your goals are clear and you've struck a great balance between text you wrote and outside sources to communicate the information, and students will learn from each other in the discussion. Great start!

Katie

Tryout -- Celeste (talk) 14:53, 25 April 2013 (EDT)

Ryan,

I think you are off to a great start! The introduction and unit two that you have completed are very thorough and well thought out. There were two things that I saw as I went through the tryout: (1) I had to reread the first sentence under performance objectives, maybe the wording could be changed a little? (2) For the self-reflection quiz, maybe a little space between the two links of answers and the link to go back to unit two, I kept clicking the wrong link. Overall great job on a very important topic, i look forward to seeing the end product.

Try Out -- Keriann Earl (talk) 14:08, 27 April 2013 (EDT)

Ryan, I liked how you had a self-reflection quiz and included the answers at the bottom. That allowed the learner to think about what they learned but then immediately check and see if they were right. I thought that everything was easy to follow and the objectives lined up with the material. About the only suggestion I could make would be adding some sort of visual aid. I am a visual learner and when there are pictures and diagrams it helps me to engage in the content better. But very good so far! -Keriann



Ryan,

Great job on your unit for Collaborative learning. You did a great job introducing the material to the participant and it was nice to get some information right at the beginning of the course. Maybe you could include some questions for the participant to consider before the reading. I like the access to the articles that you provided, I need to figure out how to better link my article on my wiki.


Also, great job providing a google space for the discussion. That is also something I need to work on when developing my own course.

Great job!

Kristen Savastano

Instructor feedback on your draft unit -- Jianwei Zhang (talk) 10:26, 30 April 2013 (EDT)

The course front page and unit 2 look solid and helpful. In the next step, you may make refinements to make your mini-course more engaging and interactive. For example,

  • Your course's opening paragraph can be more engaging by beginning with an interesting (brief) scenario/case of collaborative learning with technology, followed by the course overview you've created.
  • Your objectives need to be modified using performance-based terms to replace "know" "obtain information about"
  • Your unit 2 could be better streamlined. I guess the long paragraph about new tech and components of collaborative learning should be integrated into your unit 1. Here you will specifically summarize the benefits (using a list if you can), followed by an article to read, and then summarize potential issues (using a list if possible), followed by the discussion. The self-reflection can be moved to be end of this unit. What do you think?
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