It is time to say goodbye to the course OTL101 and reflect on what I have learned and to showcase one of my previous posts. First, I have chosen to showcase my last post, #4 on feedback as I think feedback is important, which the article by Hattie also emphasized. As well, that post really …
Monthly Archives: April 2020
Post 4: Feedback
Similar to the article by Hattie, I agree the feedback is a very important part in teaching and I was not surprised to see the evidence for it’s importance demonstrated in the article. I believe there are some gaps between what Hattie recommends and my own practice and there is always room for improvement. Something …
Learning Outcomes and Assessments
In order to examine the relationship to the learning outcomes and assessments I will use Community and Ecosystem Ecology as an example. There are many learning outcomes in this course and so I have only pasted a few below that illustrate how they are mostly associated with high level cognitive skills: Sample Community And Ecosystem …
Considering Cognitive Presence
The course has begun to explore the community of inquiry model in which cognitive presence is one of three overlapping concepts in the model. I was not previously aware of this model of learning and I suppose that is a learning in itself! In Post 1, I considered student engagement to be important and wondered …