I
think I have been able to apply my learning by starting to work on my
e-learning initiative. My
e-learning initiative will be a survey completed at the end of my course. The purpose of it is to determine the
ways in which to improve the course for the future. I want to ask the students about their learning and what
parts of the course were beneficial to them.
The
results would be interesting to myself and others within the Odyssey program at
JHU. The Odyssey program offers
non-credit courses, but my course this summer will be the first online
non-credit course. By evaluating
not only the content but also the length of the course, the relevance of the
topic, the CRM’s efficacy (which is Blackboard), the format of the course (with
weekly assignments and a large team-based project at the end), etc.
It
may eventually be interesting to a wider audience who would like to pursue
non-credit programming online for an adult population. I think we would need to survey a
larger number of participants in order to publish this kind of data, but that
could be done in the future.
I
assume that the above plan is sufficient.
One of the team members mentioned having to create and administer an
evaluation BEFORE you would teach the course. Obviously, my plan would evaluate the students AFTER their
course. Let me know if I am
off-track.
On
a different note, the group work has been slow going so far, but hopefully we
will connect better next week.
