Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Session #8: Evaluation


In session #8, the Featured Faculty member, Diane Bottomley, will facilitate a discussion on issues pertaining to evaluation. Specifically, issues related to student learning, tracking student projects so they are not used for more than one class, and program evaluation will be discussed.

Join us for the next LTTO session on October 22nd at 9:00 in TC 217.

Tuesday, September 23, 2008

LTTO Session #7 Summary

In our first session of the year, the group discussed the procedures for developing online courses and revisions in the Learning Objects Sharing Program. A flowchart of procedures and the revised Learning Objects Sharing document will soon be available on the Department of Elementary Education web site. There are two pending cases of learning objects sharing in the department. There have been delays in the payment of stipends due to some copyright issues, but Extended Education is working to resolve this soon.

Next, electronic submission of student evaluations of online courses was discussed. Some faculty members are getting lower student response rates than they have received for face-to-face courses. In addition, faculty members cannot see if it is obvious that a student reversed the ratings on a course evaluation, because the individual evaluations are not sent by Jim Jones. Susan will discuss this with Jim Stroud as well as see if Extended Education can help in any way.

Harold Roberts is working on a summary page that will describe each of our online courses. He will use Jim Flowers' web site as a model and link it to the department's web site.

Dean Weaver is interested in starting a Teachers College initiative that would give instructors a forum for sharing what they are doing in their online courses. Ideas were generated that Karen Ford will collate and send to the Dean.

Finally, the group decided that the topic for the next LTTO session will be evaluation, including program evaluation and evaluation of student learning.

Join us for the next LTTO session on October 22nd at 9:00 in TC 217.

Thursday, September 4, 2008

Session #7: Learning Objects Sharing Program

Join us for LTTO Session #7. Susan Tancock will be leading a discussion on the department's Learning Objects Sharing Program for online courses. If you have already developed an online course or you plan to do so in the future, this program will be important to you. Susan will bring copies of the guidelines to the session.

LTTO #7 will be from 2:00-3:00 in TC 217 on September 22nd. We hope you can participate in the discussion!