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“Dreaming the Impossible Dream: A Completely Customizable Online Course”

“Dreaming the Impossible Dream: A Completely Customizable Online Course”. Dr. Laura Yost & Alan Peterka Distance Learning. Defining the Starting Point.

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“Dreaming the Impossible Dream: A Completely Customizable Online Course”

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  1. “Dreaming the Impossible Dream: A Completely Customizable Online Course” Dr. Laura Yost & Alan Peterka Distance Learning

  2. Defining the Starting Point "UCLA:X = UCLA:Xtreme! This course represents the first customizable ATAW offering at Kirkwood - meaning students have the option to choose which projects they complete." Customizable: more than just permitting selection of paper topics. Meaningful control of one’s learning path. Customizable: a course in which, with some instructor-provided structure, students can select the content they study

  3. Where To Go From Here? Considerations Challenges Benefits Sources Examples Useful Tools

  4. The Benefits of Customizing • Empowers enrolled students • Promotes intellectual creativity • Focuses on flexible content • Breaks grading monotony • Respectful of values • Thought and introspection • Displays breadth of fields • Disruptive innovation

  5. Considerations When Customizing • Information-intensive • Communication-intensive • Standardizing essential • Foster relationships • Course outcomes • Minds change

  6. Approaches to Customizing • Select umbrella units by topic • Create patterned projects • Expand ideas of assessment • Collaborative, democratic • Learning styles • Bloom’s or other taxonomy

  7. Approaches to Customizing

  8. Challenges to Customizing • Contentdevelopment • Balanced unit exercises • General working confusion • Option overload • Grading • High enrollment

  9. Examples of Customizing

  10. Examples of Customizing

  11. Examples of Customizing

  12. Customizing Sources

  13. Some Useful Customizing Tools

  14. Brainstorming About CustomizingChoose one or more of the following… • How many words/phrases can you think of to describe the act of learning? • What choices could be offered when teaching others your favorite card game? • Draw a sketch depicting the depth &/or breadth of your subject. • Write down the hard choices you made today – how did you decide? • Describe a metaphor for choice infused course work.

  15. alan.peterka@kirkwood.edu laura.yost@kirkwood.edu Q&A

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