My evaluation of this course reverts right back to when i first decided to plan it in my DFLP course. If i go back and have a look at the whole process from where I started my plan to where I am completing this plan and it actually coming to fruitition and being taught to my students I can then truly Evaluate it.
Starting from the Students, to the Stakeholders, to the students learning styles, to the aims and outcomes, implementation plan, or the resources used. All these things have to be evaluated in a course.
Formative (which is conducted during the teaching instructions of the course to improve it in any way)
Summative ( which is conducted at the end of teaching instructions to determine how well the processing of the information was taught and retained)
Evaluation is necessary for facilitators to keep the quality of the course and material at it highest standards and to keep improving it if needed. All facilitators should evaluate the course and make sure it fits the stakeholders goal. They should also evaluate the level of the course and the students who are taking the course, and if they are learning from the course, and asking what will the students take away from this course and will they retain it, to use in their own circumstances, whether it be at home, work, play,or school.
To get this evaluation you can get it from:
- Teaching/Facilitator staff or collegues
- In the Classroom/observation
- Students completing assessments/quizzes/tests
- By Moderation from internal and external stakeholders
- By self evaluation /by reflection
I will put my evaluation questions and answers for Bronwyn on blackboard.
Now I am at a stage of actually putting my course together and I am going to show the rest of my Constructing To Enhance Learning collegues the process of how I am going to do it.
I am putting my thoughts down step by steps on how I am going to do this:
- Who are my Learners?
- I am going to take a photo of my students in the Mosgiel Comunity Learning Centre Venue and a photo of the Mosgiel Venue from the street, which I will upload from my computer and save on my USB which i will use later.
- I will also make a link to Otago Polytechnic Web page for the above as well.
- Reference will be linked from my Del iou is
- I will open up Excel 2007 on Computer and have a blank page ready to record
- I will use “camstudio” to do a screencast of a few examples I will use in my course http://screencasting.blogspot.com/
- Above is a link i have used before that Leigh has put on his blog to show us how to do this.
- I will then open up Wiki and show how I added my ideas on learning styles and what would be best for this course and if it suited my learners.
- I will show how I made my Webpage using google pages.
- I will demonstrate how I used “Snagit” to capture my tools that I will use in my Handouts and examples.
- I will demonstrate how I made my Timeline in “Visio” and then pasted to my Webpage.
- I will show how I add links to my webpage and how to make a Home button.
- Then explain how I put this altogether on a slideshow on Utube, so they can view it and evaluate for me.
Well I have made up a couple of pages on my web page and have made links to them.
The pages linked are:
- Content of course
- Resource page
- Time line
- Costing
- Weblog
- Wiki
I am working on having another couple of pages on this web page with my references and a slideshow which i intend to do in powerpoint and will put on Utube, and also upload it onto this blog as well.
This will give me my 3 internal links as well as my three external links for my course requirements.
I have got to the stage of this coure now that I am ready just to put everything together, to make the course complete.
My costing page is still is progress, as i want to talk to Terry about this.
My resources are as follows:
WhiteBoard / Data show
this is for students coming into CLC venues as a group session
CD’s
This is for students who are visual learners (dont learn from reading)
A4 Paper / Printer
My course will be constucted in “Word” and i will use “Snagit”
to capture my tools and paste into word document. Students will also get handouts to go with course. Students will be handed an Evaluation Sheet after the course as well.
Excel 2007 / Powerpoint software
As my course is Excel and I will put my course on powerpoint and put it on Utube, this is also for my visual learners.
Camstudio
I will use this software to capture visual and audio instructions for course construction.
I have put my steps on my webpage that I will take to construct my course.
http://jacquiehhayes.googlepages.com/home
Here is my web page.
I have just made my web page for the fourth part of the course, the implementation of the course. I have found this real cool and have added extra pages and links to the Wiki as well as to my blog.
I used google pages to do this and found it a great way to make web pages. this gave me another great idea of a course i could construct and teach at our Community Learning Centre Venues.
Isn’t technology Great!!
here is a link to my web page
- Students who have basic computer skills in Excel
- Existing Community Learning Centre Students
- Students who are sent to CLC by thier employers to know Excel
- Students who have purchased Microsoft Excel 2007 and dont know how to navigate around the software.
- Otago Polytechnic Staff, who will use Excel at their workstations once 2007 is installed on their computers.
- Groups or Organisations, who wish to use the CLC Venues to learn Excel for their clubs, or charities.
Learner Context:
This course will be run in the Community Learning Centre under the Computing 4 Free Microsoft Office course, which already has been approved, and will be moderated by Emma Hogg,@Otago Polytechnic CLC Forth St Venue.
The time frame for this course will be a 20 hour course and will run in 1 and 1/2 sessions.
This course could also be a blended course which will use both books, and could be taught via Community Learning Centres, on line for staff development/staff learners using blackboard.
The course will be made up in A4 booklet, with a Table of Contents, giving page reference to each learning outcome. In the booklet will be written as well as visual intructions on how to: I will use “Snagit” to use the visual instructions and “Word” for word processing the booklet. There would also be handouts for students to take home.
I would also like to have the course on CD for visual learners who have trouble interpreting instructions written on paper. I will most likely use “Camstudio” (with audio ) for this. If it was to be put on Blackboard I would like to use slideshow and put it on utube.
For the Group students who wish to be taught in the CLC’s I would use a data projector, and give students hand outs and have excercises already on the computers.
The Stakeholders are;
Otago Polytechnic, Otago Polytechnic Students
