This lesson has shown me the course components and building of a syllabus that is easy to follow and informative.
The content of the course can be delivered through assignments, lectures, discussions. Assignments that contribute to the students' enhacement of their critical thinking skills also increase the value ot a course from the students perspective. They can be focused on problem-solving which the students can easily apply to their daily living and interactions in their comunitites. Critical thinking skills drive studnets engagement.
Lectures: The five types of lectures need to be planned and crafted carefully and thoughfully to create relevancy and course value as well. These five kinds of lecture styles are: Expository, Suspenseful answer, Probem-Solving, Case-Study, and Interactive.
Discussions: They can be posted or asynchronous, and Chats or synchronous or in live-time
The comprehension of the content can be assessed in two formats: in a quick succinct format like a quiz intended to give immediate feedback and often acts as 'ego boosters' for students or in the form of exams. Exams could be geared to assess what the student did not understand as well as wha they grasped correctly. Exams are lenghtier or more comprehensive and they should be structured to be only taken once because their scores contrbute to final grades. Some exams are automatically graded but care needs to be given to planning time to the tests that need to be manually graded. Is is highly recommended to provide immediate feedback of performance after each quiz or exam to allow the student to synthesize their progress and realize and correct their errors in a timely manner.
Pay attention to writing test and quiz questions... relevance is important
This is interetsing although I am not a fan of multiple chocie quizzes. Students learn more in dicussions and writing papers.
Constructive feedback in a timely manner is important. Working towards the Final Exam students should have been provided clear assessment to achieve the objective of the course and do well on the Final Exam. Feedback helps students guage progress.
This section helped me to understand the importance of feedback in a timely manner for students.
Immediate feedback is important for students as the just-completed assignment or quiz is fresh in their minds.
This section taught me the components of a well-designed introductory statement for an assignment. The prompt questions on what an assignment introduction should entail are quite insightful. I will review the assignment and discussion prompts and adjust them so that they provide substantial information to complete each assignment.
Syllabus of your course should include Expectations,Schedule,Grading system and instructor contact information.Quizzez are good way to evaluate a learner and model answers should be provided.Immediate feedback after Quizzez is important.In synchoronous learning discussions can be either posted as chats or synchronous.
On line lectures should be in the form of direct delivery short and precise,graphic based.
On line quizzes give the students the opportunity to retake quizzes.
Thorough explanation of course components
Experiential learning or service learning can deeply engage students while giving them a chance to use their new learnings in real-life (in their job or personal life). This builds a connection between the classroom and what the student experiences and does outside the classroom.
I learned that it is important to ncorporate critical thinking exercises in your course content and learning activities wherever possible.
Weekly quizzes and exams are a great way to evaluate the knowledge of the student and for students to find out what they don't know so they can learn from their mistakes
I appreciated the clear list of questions the assignment description should address for learners. What will I demonstrate and why this assignment is relevant are but two examples. By addressing these questions upfront, the learner can align to the goals and be unburdened by thoughts of why am I doing this.
I learned that quizes are really a method a student and instructor can use as a way of checking themselves and what was learned. It should be teting what you do know, not what you don't know
Tests that are constructed well test the practical knowledge of the student, and also identify areas where the student does not have the required knowledge and needs to to additional study.
It is important for online students to feel that they are a part of a learning community and that their instructors are accessible to them throughout the course.
I learned how important it is to have clear communication of all parts of the course and to incorporate active learning.
Encouraging student interaction with the course material will help keep them engaged and learning.
