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With professional development for instructors it enhances their ability to improve the different areas in any course
Formative and summative assessments of the courses are essential. Always be open to changes that can be made. This in itself is workload management as some of the changes can save the instructor time in the end and help hone the focus of the course for the students.
Take the time to gain more knowledge and sills, manage your workload, and plan ahead to provide for necessary course revisions. And every 3-5 weeks should ask the STOP, START & CONTINUE questions.
Instructors should continue professional development that enhances the knowledge and skills needed to manage their online courses. This will enhance instruction and the learning process.
Data is needed to tackle course revisions. Data can come from many sources including course outcomes, checking dynamic elements, formative and summative evaluations. You can also create a course repository and learning objects library.
Professional develoment and accountability offers the necessary support for instructors who could feel isolated. It also provides a venue for ideas.
ADDIE is designed to reflect on what's been disigned, implemented and tested. Allows for changes in both summative and formative venues.
Love the idea of a "a course repository". Wish I would have known this before making teaching changes based on formative assessments.
Sometimes student assessment can also be subtle, things like increased emails about not understanding where links are located in the learning system. Figuring out how to embed items in a teaching tool like Google Slides is a big time saver also so students are not clicking links in separate tabs and getting distracted from the lesson.
We have a resource folder in Schoology to refer back to. One thing that would be helpful to show in this course is to give examples for teachers of the format used when course changes are made to online lessons using formative student feedback. i.e. version 1, version 2 etc.
Professional Development is an opportunity to enhance an online instructor's strengths and improve upon their weaknesses. It enables instructors to develop the knowledge and skills needed to manage their workload, improve instruction, and enhance the learning process.
I like the idea of creating a course history to store effective teaching strategies, assignments, evaluations, etc. this gives the instructor a database of tools to refer back to when teaching the course again.
One important aspect to an online course is student feedback. Feedback can be both formative and summative. Formative feedback would allow an instructor to change a dynamic object such as making changes to a syllabus. It is also important to use the formative and summative feedback to make course changes to help make the course better.
It is important to continuously update and revise the course as necessary. As formative feedback is given those changes should be made in a timely manner so they do not get fogotten about, or the changes that need to be made take a long time after the summative, which is not a time management strategy.
Making sure that the best practices are being delivered is very important. Why waste your time if your students are not understanding the course or how to work the system. I feel that this is an important part of teaching in general to create and then test it, revise it, and retest. Reflection is also a big part of this equation as well.
I will keep all of my 'future' course shells (syllabus/resources) and modify them (if necessary) using a repository. This will enable immediate access to current/former resources.
Never thought much about a course history, but it does make a lot of sense to keep chunks of information that don't fit in now stored away for another time. One chunk, learning object, can be unplugged and stored into the repository. Another that is in the repository can be unplugged from there and pluggted into the current content. Great time saver.
In the Workload Management Strategies (WLMS) for teaching online course, module four titled, WLMS for Course Revisions, I learned that professional development for the instructor is important so that the instructor can keep abreast of the latest learning practices that are being used. The modifications performed to enhance a course needs to be documented and a revision history must be maintained. Lastly, the use of formative assessments throughout the course and summative assessments at the end of the course are important so that course revisions are made in a timely manner