This post is all about intended learning outcomes and associated learning activities that follow the design principles from the community of inquiry model. The following are 2 intended learning outcomes for a course on ecosystem ecology, my area of expertise: Understand and evaluate how published scientific research articles contribute to broader ecological theory Observe and …
Category Archives: Integration
Learning Portfolio: Online Interactions
Ensuring appropriate online interactions is something I already do, but I am a strong believer in ongoing improvement. And…writing is an area I can always improve in. There are lots of resources out there on wording criticism and it is more than focusing on ideas vs. people. If I am going to get my course …
Portfolio Update
Did you miss the Learning Portfolio, I’ve updated mine and link to it here or at the menu at the top of the page. Learn more strategies for effective engagement through improving social presence! https://rreudink.trubox.ca/category/learning-activities-portfolio/
OLTC 201 Integration
In general, this course focused more on topics related to asynchronous learning and the concepts of social presence and specific instructor strategies were the two concepts that most caught my thoughts related to improving engagement and retention. I think it is easy to rationalize implementing additional facilitation strategies and I think improving student engagement is …
Post 5: Integration
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 …
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 …
Introductions
Welcome to my blog. I love beaches and what better relaxing place to think about when working away online. You may see a beach theme as I settle into blogging to lighten things up. Onto the first three questions for this blog post. First, I think student engagement is the most important characteristic of high …