LTTO Session #11: Using a Template to Assist Faculty in Online Course Development

In session #11 we will view the seminar, Using a Template to Assist Faculty in Online Course Development. I can't upload the handouts, but I will distribute them at the session. We will watch the last 43 minutes of the seminar.

Jerry Case will also do a brief orientation on how to use the new cart for audio and video capture of lectures, etc.

Please join us for the next LTTO session on February 27th at 11:00 in TC 217.

Session #10: Summary

In Session #10 we discussed the questions developed for evaluation of distance learning programs. In general, we agreed that since our graduate program is online, we should be able to answer the questions satisfactorily. A couple of highlights of the discussion were:

• The Elementary Education Graduate Artifact Rubric will help with data collection and analysis in the graduate program. We decided to field-test the two "Impact" rows in graduate courses for Spring Semester, although faculty members are free to use more of the rows for evaluating artifacts. Two faculty members are going to have their students submit Impact Statements via inQsit this Spring and will report to the group if this is effective.
• The Quality Matters Rubric, which Jim will use to evaluate new online courses before he requisitions the course development stipend, will help us maintain quality in our graduate courses.
• Because we have a student course evaluation that is specific to online courses, we can continually use that data to improve our courses.
• rGrade will enable us to evaluate our distance learning program and provide systematic and ongoing data for program improvement.
• We can meet the NCATE field experiences requirements in our online courses by having our students complete assignments in their own classrooms or the classrooms of others. Field experiences do not have to occur in each course.
• In order to meet the diversity requirement, we can collect demographic data about the environments in which our graduate students teach. Eva and Pat will work on an assignment in EDEL 644 that will match teachers based on the demographics of their students, in the hopes that this will be a diversity-understanding experience for them.
  

We had the largest crowd ever for this interesting discussion!