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Course analysis & design: StrategiesDavid Joneshttp://coursedesign.wordpress.com/strategies/
StudentTeachers’Strategies
Teachers’Planning
Teachers’Thinking
Teaching/LearningContext
Teachers’ Strategies
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Implementation ideas
7 principles
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The 7 Principles
http://policy.cqu.edu.au/Policy/policy.jsp?policyid=680
CQU’s Management Plan for L&T
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The 7 Principles
1. Encourages contact between students and staff
Frequent student-faculty contact in and out of classes is the most important factor in student motivation and involvement. Faculty concern helps students get through rough times and keep on working. Knowing a few faculty members well enhances students' intellectual commitment and encourages them to think abouttheir own values and future plans.
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Mail merge contact
Introduction
How are you going?
Course barometer
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The 7 Principles
2. Develops Reciprocity and Cooperation Among Students
Learning is enhanced when it is more like a team effort that a solo race. Good learning, like good work, is collaborative and social, not competitive and isolated. Working with others often increases involvement in learning. Sharing one's own ideas and responding to others' reactions sharpens thinking and deepens understanding
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The “Radical” Model
No lectures
Students in sub-groups
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Compulsory use of mailing list
Weekly group presentations + critiques
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The 7 Principles
3. Encourages Active Learning
Learning is not a spectator sport. Students do not learn much just by sitting in classes listening to teachers, memorizing pre-packaged assignments, and spitting out answers. They must talk about what they are learning, write about it, relate it to past experiences and apply it to their daily lives. They must make what they learn part of themselves.
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System Emergencies
Break student computers
Get them to fix it
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The 7 Principles
4. Gives Prompt Feedback
Knowing what you know and don't know focuses learning. Students need appropriate feedback on performance to benefit from courses. When getting started, students need help in assessing existing knowledge and competence. In classes, students need frequent opportunities to perform and receive suggestions for improvement. At various points during college, and at the end, students need chances to reflect on what they have learned, what they still need to know, and how to assess themselves.
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Online assignment submission
72 assignments: 3 days
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BAM – Blog Aggregation Management
http://cddu.cqu.edu.au/index.php/BAM
http://blogsforlearning.msu.edu/articles/view.php?id=11
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Ask the students
Anonymous discussion forum• 463 T2, 2007 FLEX students• 700+ comments
Online and print learning materials• What did you like or find useful?• What caused you problems?• What would you like to see?
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What would the top responses be?
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Comment Mentions
Online lectures (audio/video)
106
Response from staff 86Clarity & consistency 66Study guides 55Assignment feedback 53Print 33Discussion boards 30OASM 27Exams released 25Everything ready 21
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Comment Mentions
Online lectures (audio/video)
106
Response from staff 86Clarity & consistency 66Study guides 55Assignment feedback 53Print 33Discussion boards 30OASM 27Exams released 25Everything ready 21
http://cddu.cqu.edu.au/
Click on “Community”
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The 7 Principles
5. Emphasizes Time on Task
Time plus energy equals learning. There is no substitute for time on task. Learning to use one's time well is critical for students and professionals alike. Students need help in learning effective time management. Allocating realistic amounts of time means effective learning for students and effective teaching for faculty. How an institution defines time expectations for students, faculty, administrators, and other professional staff can establish the basis of high performance for all.
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Weekly summary
http://webfuse.cqu.edu.au/Courses/2006/T2/COIS20025/Study_Schedule/
Rubrics and example solutions
http://webfuse.cqu.edu.au/Courses/2006/T2/COIS20025/Assessment/Item_3/
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The 7 Principles
6. Communicates High Expectations
Expect more and you will get more. High expectations are important for everyone -- for the poorly prepared, for those unwilling to exert themselves, and for the bright and well motivated. Expecting students to perform well becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy when teachers and institutions hold high expectations for themselves and make extra efforts.
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You will all get HDs
Have high expectations for myself
Use examples of good work
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The 7 Principles
7. Respects Diverse Talents and Ways of Learning
There are many roads to learning. People bring different talents and styles of learning to college. Brilliant students in the seminar room may be all thumbs in the lab or art studio. Students rich in hands-on experience may not do so well with theory. Students need the opportunity to show their talents and learn in ways that work for them. Then they can be pushed to learn in new ways that do not come so easily.
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Online lectures for DE students
Animations of operating systems
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