And here's my reflection for Unit 1:
1.2 Reflection: Personal Learning Goal
| Posted: | Apr 07, 2013, 04:51 am (22 days ago) |
| Due: | May 04, 11:59 pm |
'Considering the online learning self-assessment you took this week, and thinking about your reasons for taking this course, what is your highest priority learning goal for this course? What are some specific skills, strategies or tools you are hoping to learn more about?'
As part of the GEMS Digital Learning Team, it is important that I maintain a breadth and depth of knowledge that can sometimes be lost very quickly when we step outside the classroom. One of our key initiatives is around blended and online learning, as we look to form and implement a vision of how this may look in our schools and organization over the coming years. Accordingly, this course will enable me, and the other members of the team, to gain a deeper and practical understanding of the issues faced by the busy online and blended student. I have some experience of this from my recent Master's course, but the LEC provides a more realistic immersion in the type of semi-structured learning that our students in GEMS schools are beginning to undertake. So, my TOP PRIORITY is to be able, at the end of the course, to better articulate the challenges and opportunities of blended teaching and learning. This will feed into the GEMS vision as we move forward in this area. In terms of specific tools, I am interested in evaluating the Haiku LMS as a vehicle for delivering online courses as part of a blended learning approach. My first impressions are that it provides a high level of functionality and interoperability, however the look and feel is fairly basic, as with Google Sites. This may not be an issue for older students and adults but, for younger learners, it would be beneficial to look at how we can better customize the look and feel of the LMS. It is also important, from a teacher's perspective, to evaluate the assessment options and processes as students submit work throughout a course. For example: What are the success criteria? How is data collected? How does it all fit together to provide an overall judgment on student attainment across the whole course? | |
