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Online Graduate Course: Technology Use & Assessment at Ball State University

Explore ITEDU 510, an online elective in Ball State's masters program, focusing on using and assessing technology. Discover the course development, implementation, student projects, lessons learned, and future outlook.

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Online Graduate Course: Technology Use & Assessment at Ball State University

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  1. Graduate Online Course: Technology - Use & Assessment Jim Flowers Department of Industry & Technology Ball State University jcflowers1@bsu.edu

  2. Presentation Questions • 1. What is this course? • 2. How was it developed? • 3. How was it implemented? • 4. What does it “look like?” • 5. What were some student projects? • 6. What lessons were learned? • 7. What does the future hold?

  3. 1. What is this course? • ITEDU 510: Technology – Use and Assessment • An elective in Ball State’s masters in TE • Based on newly developed undergraduate face-to-face (F2F) course on Using and Assessing Technology

  4. Specifics • 100% online • Asynchronous • With weekly lessons and deadlines • First offered Fall, 2000 • Next offered Fall, 2001 • 26/27 enrollees completed

  5. Instructional Technology • Blackboard’s CourseInfo • Can be accessed by any computer on the Internet • Webpage creation

  6. Unique attributes • Individual and collaborative learning • Student-written objective • Only formative quizzes • No final exam

  7. 2. How was it developed? • A championed idea • Most content came from outside Tech Ed • Tried out some content & activities with undergraduate F2F class first • Used survey results and research to inform decisions

  8. Support • Departmental support • Unusually good University support • 6 hrs assigned time for development • I had to become an online student • Attendance at all related workshops • Instructional designer • (Other support, as needed)

  9. Content Issues • Based on “Design, produce, use, assess”

  10. ITEA Standard 13: • “Students will develop the abilities to assess the impact of products and systems.”

  11. Not ITEA Standard 12: • “Students will develop the abilities to use and maintain technological products and systems.” • “Use hand tools correctly.” • “Use computers to access and organize information.”

  12. Levels of “Using Technology” • Personal* • Corporate • Cultural • National • Global

  13. Studying “Using Technology” • Trends in use • Problems with use • Usability • User-centered design • Anthropometrics & Ergonomics • Universal Design • User surveys • Instructions for users • Other

  14. Usability Research • Usability testing • User survey • Other

  15. Levels of “Technology Assessment” • Personal • Corporate • Cultural • National* • Global

  16. Technology Assessment • Analysis of TA reports from the US Office of Technology Assessment, and others • Formal TA process • Web-based group TA reports

  17. Individualized Objective • Individualized project

  18. Development Issues • Providing for the personal touch • Among students • Between students and the instructor • Blending didactic and constructivistic • Including individualized and group learning • Realistic, doable, fun, and meaningful

  19. 3. How was it implemented?

  20. Marketing • To on-campus Tech Ed students • At ITEA conference • (Surreptitiously through a survey) • An ad was placed in a TEI periodical • Email was sent to all TE state supervisors • Brochures were sent to all HS principals in Indiana.

  21. Registration & Enrollment • Online • Some delays, but no major problems • Course divided into on-campus and off-campus sections, and limit increased above 20 • 27 students enrolled, 26 completed

  22. Web-Based Instruction • Modules, usually 1 per week • Interaction • File exchange • Discussion boards • 3 larger activities • Individual usability research • Team technology assessment • Individual project

  23. Rigorous course assessment • Standard “promotion and tenure” course assessment was inadequate • Additional course assessment based on “Quality on the Line, Benchmarks for Success in Internet-Based Education”

  24. 4. What does it “look like?” • The Blackboard CourseInfo Interface • Separate Web pages

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