I plan to conduct an assessment every Friday. The assessment will contain three parts: the first part will be asking students for feedback on pedagogical strategies for that week. That is, students will be assessing how well the different online asynchronous and synchronous activities worked for them. The second part of the assessment will be …
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Dec 27
M2 Communication Exemplar guide
Module 2 Communication Exemplar Prompt: After reading and researching about Managing your Online Course, take a moment (or two) to reflect and describe what motivates you to want to teach in the online classroom. In what ways do you believe you will be effective and impact student learning in this medium of teaching? Next, write …
Aug 17
EFOT 2014 Course Evaluation
Hi Leah, I have included links to THREE rubrics that I used to provide a course evaluation. I found it fascinating that each one was not quite adequate on its own. I will be curious to know whether looking at all three helps to paint a clearer picture! I wish I could have annotated the …
Aug 17
M8 Checklist
Colleagues, It’s been a pleasure learning from you (and Leah) this summer. Thank you. I’d like to offer one more resource. Below is a link to a checklist that I will use to be sure my online course is as accessible as possible: http://webaim.org/standards/508/checklist I’ve also contacted Emory’s ODS to ask those wise folks what …
Aug 17
RE: UDL Uncompromising Directives by Phyllis Wright
Hi Phyllis, I didn’t see a way to leave a comment on your post, but I did particularly like your focus on the ‘why’: My goal is always to engage the “why” first in face to face or online, then “what” and finally “how.” With teaching or leadership, unless I can convince my followers to …
Aug 15
In the Home Stretch with UDL
UDL!! The Recognition Network: Learning about UDL has been liberating: I now know why to include images rather than just text in my PPTs (I thought they were unnecessary decoration or ‘cutesy’); why my colleague almost always includes a visual (screen) during a talk; why my screen now will have a great deal of white …
Aug 15
Course Evaluation
EFOTS-Course-Rubric I have learned so much from this course. When I have evaluations of my courses, I think I would rather have open ended questions to find ways of improvement. If I have a large MOOC, I’m sure I would use a similar rubric. Leah, Thank you for being patient with me during this process. …
Aug 15
Some really brief thoughts on UDL
We need UDL for the same reasons we need UD anywhere else: learners bring “a huge variety of skills, needs and interests” to the learning environment. UDL ensures that learners can access, understand and act on the information provided. UD in other settings (housing or government, for example) ensures that citizens can access the resources …
Aug 14
UDL and Accessibility
Over the years, the office of Disability services, has given great leadership on how I as a professor should interact with students in my f2f class. I think it is important to highlight the students’ needs as a starting point. Overall improvements to the course should include being inclusive of participating and potential students (disabilities …
Aug 14
UDL uncompromising directives for learners
With older age comes reflection on the way it “used to be” and I see the UDL modifications very similar to the progression of general education of my childhood where limited modifications for physical and learning disabilities were the norm to where accommodation is a common (and mandated) practice. For example, when I was in …
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