didactical organisation of learning activities, review and feedback in blackboard in a blended...
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Didactical organisation of learning activities, review and feedback
in Blackboard in a blended learning course
Annemarie & Marca
Annemarie Zijlmans Marca Gresnigt
Educational trainer/consultant
Wageningen University, the Netherlands
Educational Staff Development
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Overview
• Context General Course on Teaching and Learning
• Course Design
• Design choices and result in Blackboard (Demo)
• Moderating the course (Demo)
• Evaluation
• Your input/discussion
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Context
• General Course on Teaching and Learning
• Virtual Action Learning
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Course Design
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Examples of assignments
Preparation assignments
• How do students learn?
• Learning styles
• Prepare a practice lesson
• This is how I learned
Learning assignments
• Let’s have a look at the learning outcomes
• Make sure your course is aligned
• Influence your students learning process
• Assessment strategy
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Learning Outcome After this LA you will know how to make your course aligned.
LA2. INTRODUCTION When you design your course, you often start with the selection of important topics and content for the course. Your intentions are clear. But how do you get students to learn what you want them to learn? Make sure your course is aligned!
Product criteria 1. Keep in mind the INTRODUCTION 2. A table in which you describe your course in terms of :
- learning outcomes - activities (incl. materials) - assessment (incl. materials)
3. An analysis of the alignment of your course including suggestions for improvement.
Learning activities 1. Read chapter 5 of the book 2. Make a table with 3 columns: learning outcomes,
activities and assessment . And fill it in for your course. 3. Watch the films of
Teaching Teaching & Understanding Understanding 4. What can you say about the alignment? Does the exam
measure the Learning outcomes? Do you have the appropriate teaching/learning activities?
5. Comment on your own table. 6. Finish your product and save it as a PDF a. “Draft”: 7. Upload your product in Blackboard 8. Read other products and give feedback.
• Do you have any questions? Post these in the group “Share & chat”
• Try to answer questions from others b. After class meeting “Final product” : 9. Improve your product and upload again.
USE THE FORUM RULES
4 hours
Functionalities & Blackboard tools
Themes Content area’s Assignment instructions and downloads Content items Preparation assignment hand in Blog Learning assignment hand in & feedback Forum Share and Chat Group Links to submit assignments Tool link Adjust course entry point every 3 weeks Control panel > Customization > Teaching
style Monitoring activities for interventions and class preparation
Performance dashboard
Course guide Learning module Announcements Announcements
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Design choices and results in blackboard
• Demo: http://Blackboard.wur.nl
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During the course
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Participant evaluation VLE: online activities
2013 VLC
2014 Blackboard
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Participant evaluation VLE: Peer learning
2013 VLC
2014 Blackboard
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Our evaluation: continuation next year
• Blackboard
• Organisation in discussion forum and blog
• Combination online and face2face learning
• 6 themes
• Connection between online and face2face learning
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Our evaluation: changes for next year
• Participants could be more active online
• Time pressure for the trainer to formulate feedback
Organisation
• Create groups for providing feedback
• Scheduled self-study day
• Not every three weeks, but two weeks
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Our evaluation: changes for next year
Didactics
• Attention for feedback and the quality of the feedback
• Feedback on feedback (usefulness of the feedback) of the student himself;
– invite them to ask for explanation to get feedback clear – ranking
• Give feedback on the feedback of another student
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Ideas / discussion
• What do you think about this design?
• Do you think you can use this for you own practice?
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Thank You
More Questions?
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