3.3 Online & Blended Learning
Candidates develop, model, and facilitate the use of online and blended learning, digital content, and learning networks to support and extend student learning and expand opportunities and choices for professional learning for teachers and administrators. (PSC 3.3/ISTE 3c)
Artifact: ITEC 7480 Online Course Syllabus
The artifact I am using to develop, model and facilitate the use of online and blended learning, digital content, and learning networks to support and extend student learning and expand opportunities and choices for professional learning for teachers and administrators is the Online Course Syllabus I designed in ITEC 7480. The purpose of this artifact is to inform teachers, administrators and students of course information.
This artifact supports the modeling and facilitation of a detailed development of an online course through explanations about the following information. The syllabus informs stakeholders of course information, the expected student audience, teacher communication. The artifact also provides a description of the course, the learning outcomes and topics per module, Student participation and communication expectations for online learning, late work and grading policies, descriptions of assessments, academic honest, accessible use of digital tools and resources, student privacy, technology requirements, copyright and student with disability information for online learning. By providing a detailed explanation and thoroughly developing an online course, each component is accessible and available to students, other teachers and even administrators. The development of Padlet response and inquiry based reflection assessments was a key assessment component for this online course. This syllabus provides an explanation for these assessment criteria, so that students can make a commitment before the course begins. Collaboration with other teachers provides valuable input for updates to these assessment criteria reflections. Modeling and facilitating the use of digital tools such as Padlet, Storybird, Google Apps encourages learning networks and student reflection of content material. Students learn within their learning network communities to support blended and online learning structures. Digital content in each module provides support in content learning with videos, module readings and peer response and inquiry based writing tasks.
After completion of this artifact, the greatest takeaway is the understanding that a syllabus ensures the teacher can share key responsibilities with other teachers, administrators and students before the course begins. It is a skeleton for the course. The content layers clearly address student objectives and learning goals, assessment criteria determines student learning and impact on the blended/online community. It is critical to develop a syllabus with clear purpose, assessment and module assignments.
The artifact supports faculty development and school improvement by clearly defining learning goals, assessment types, student reflections and activities to support student content and technology standards. When teachers and administrators are able to clearly state learning objectives, activities and assessments for any given unit in a team setting, the teaching strategies and activities benefit students because there is an extensive amount of reflection and collaboration to support instructional practice to increase student achievement.
This artifact supports the modeling and facilitation of a detailed development of an online course through explanations about the following information. The syllabus informs stakeholders of course information, the expected student audience, teacher communication. The artifact also provides a description of the course, the learning outcomes and topics per module, Student participation and communication expectations for online learning, late work and grading policies, descriptions of assessments, academic honest, accessible use of digital tools and resources, student privacy, technology requirements, copyright and student with disability information for online learning. By providing a detailed explanation and thoroughly developing an online course, each component is accessible and available to students, other teachers and even administrators. The development of Padlet response and inquiry based reflection assessments was a key assessment component for this online course. This syllabus provides an explanation for these assessment criteria, so that students can make a commitment before the course begins. Collaboration with other teachers provides valuable input for updates to these assessment criteria reflections. Modeling and facilitating the use of digital tools such as Padlet, Storybird, Google Apps encourages learning networks and student reflection of content material. Students learn within their learning network communities to support blended and online learning structures. Digital content in each module provides support in content learning with videos, module readings and peer response and inquiry based writing tasks.
After completion of this artifact, the greatest takeaway is the understanding that a syllabus ensures the teacher can share key responsibilities with other teachers, administrators and students before the course begins. It is a skeleton for the course. The content layers clearly address student objectives and learning goals, assessment criteria determines student learning and impact on the blended/online community. It is critical to develop a syllabus with clear purpose, assessment and module assignments.
The artifact supports faculty development and school improvement by clearly defining learning goals, assessment types, student reflections and activities to support student content and technology standards. When teachers and administrators are able to clearly state learning objectives, activities and assessments for any given unit in a team setting, the teaching strategies and activities benefit students because there is an extensive amount of reflection and collaboration to support instructional practice to increase student achievement.