My main take away is that professional development can be an informal process via observation.
Professional development and embracing the ongoing need for change will promote success in the online program.
Courses should constantly be changing in evolving to meet the needs of our students.
Formative and summative evaluations of a course lead to constructive revisions of a course.
Professional development can be obtained via workshops, conferences, and other experienced online instructors.
Course revisions should happen frequently and in a way that is only improving the course information.
I didn't realize you could update a syllabus. It makes sense and can improve student retention of the subject.
I leaned/liked the idea ofa dynamci syllyabus with links to helpful resources.
The importance of keeping course content fresh and up to date and that summative course evaluations may provide detailed information which may need to be analyzed and assessed for appropriate revisions and take longer, typically 1-2 weeks.
Workload Management Strategies for Teaching Online --> WLMS for Course Revisions
Instructors need to seek Professional Development and can be both formal or informal. This improves skills, manges workload, and improves instruction to enhance the learning process.
(ADDIE) Analysis, Design, Developement, Implementaiton, and Evaluation can be used for Course Revision which best derived from a variety of aduinces, Student, Peers, and Aministrators.
Key Elements or Objects should be Dynamic Elements to keep information relevent to providing students learning needs. Formative Revision is dynamic and communicates to students when to Start, Stop, or Continue doing in their learning process.
Be open to change the way you teach it is not set in stone be willing to change remember you are putting out things they need to know but sometimes tweaking is needed to get point across to all students not everyone learns the same way we as instructors may need to adjust our information flow to reach all students
Revisions to instruction is a ongoing process. As you are doing your revisions you should keep copies of courses so that they can be obtained in their original content.
Be ready and flexible for change.
I've gained perspective on how to save time and energy. Much of this I have been doing intuitively, but this serves as an excellent opportunity for fine-tuning practices.
formative revisons can be done while course is in session, summative take longer and should be done at end of course. I like the odea of a course repository for old documents o be able to reus ethem later.
Stay up to date with course revisions in real time, rather than waiting at the end of the course. Also, keep a log of our course changes and updates in case you want to go back to an earlier version.
Not being afraid to be evaluated by the students frequently will be beneficial to me and my students. Updating course content.
Formative and Summative course revisions are essential to use in order to make on line courses better and more benificial for the students.
Take your course evaluations serious and use them to better yourslef as an educator.
It is important to make sure you ask for feedback and review the feedback that you receive in order to decide if the feedback will help your online course and teaching skills. After receiving feedback, you need to decide if you are going to use that feedback to make revisions or not. Not all feedback is going to be used.
There are two types of course revisions, formative and summative revisions. Formative revisions should be completed quickly, they provide minimal changes. Summative revisions may provide detailed information that needs to be analyzed and assessed for appropriate revision. These revisions usually take 1 to 2 weeks.
