Hello Dr.V
Faculty Expectations helps the students to know
1.Course overview and available course materials
2.Research expectation
3.Discussion Board (requirements, deadlines,and late policies)
4.Individual Projects and Group Projects Guidelines
5.Type of assignments
6.Due dates and late policies
7.Grading Criteria and Grading Rubric
8.Student Code of Contact
9.Academic Honesty Policies
I hope making the students to understand the minimum expectations of the course at the begining of the class will help them to have a smooth flow.
Hello Dr.V
Faculty Expectations helps the students to know
1.Course overview and available course materials
2.Research expectation
3.Discussion Board (requirements, deadlines,and late policies)
4.Individual Projects and Group Projects Guidelines
5.Type of assignments
6.Due dates and late policies
7.Grading Criteria and Grading Rubric
8.Student Code of Contact
9.Academic Honesty Policies
I hope making the students to understand the minimum expectations of the course at the begining of the class will help them to have a smooth flow.
Excellent, John.
Long term planning and monitoring of instructional behaviors and their impact on student outcome attainment. Thank you.
Dr. V,
In my experience, the best measures for determining if the facilitator and course expectations are clear are, the number of questions raised by the class, the measurment of the learning outcomes against a standard (historical, perhaps), and tracking student progress through later courses to determine if they learned the necesssary prerequisites.
I track my fundamentals of math students through their upper division math course and evaluate their grades in the higher level course to determine if my teaching methods are correct and students are realizing the objectives in my fundamentals course.
Thanks,
John F.
John,
Your statements are 'spot on' for all points. Communicating clear expectations can significantly ehnance so-so curriculum, and vice versa. The follow through you identify is excellent. One step further...In your experience,what is the best proactive way to determine the expectations are clear?
Dr. V,
I think posting a faculty expectation is one of the most important items to the success of either an on-line or on-ground course. Clear expectations are the basis of clear and accurate communications between faculty and students, which in turn leads to an enriching course with higher learning outcomes.
Important elements are how and when the facilitator wishes the students to communicate, expectations and evaluations methods, and deadlines for assignments. These should be followed up with weekly "newsletters" or emails from the instructor, detailing the deliverables to close the current week and listing the expectations for the coming week. This keeps the group - faculty and students - current with expectations and on track for a succesful completion of course requirements.
Just my thoughts.
John F.
This is a very important one. Sometimes online students don't recognize their responsibility to read class updates. This is most certainly an excellent heads up for the students.
Do you have a recommended frequency for the students to repeat the 'check-in' within your classes?
