Reflect on the content presented these past two weeks and how you have been able to apply your learning thus far. Reflect on the progress that you have made on your e-learning initiative evaluation plan and think about if you need any further clarification at this time.
Hello Chris!
My current position at Hopkins has me administering and managing our student evaluations, so I'm glad I have that basis, otherwise I think this content would have taken me longer to process. I've noticed my school is very good about conducting frequent formative evaluations, but I don't see the analysis coming into action that consistently or summative program evaluations being conducted. Perhaps this kind of evaluation is taking place at a more senior level or when accreditation happens, but we have some online programs that could use some tweaking and they are not getting it! I would also like to state that what I'm hoping to gain and apply from this course are the best processes of putting the data of evaluation into action.
For my e-learning initiative evaluation plan, I will formulate a plan that evaluates the e-learning course I just designed in the Instructional Design course with Donna. The template seems very clear and I am not hesitant about working on that. Here is a brief summary of my e-learning initiative:
My
e-learning initiative will be teaching to adjunct professors in the graduate
school I work for which caters to part-time students. Our adjunct instructors
are working professionals and subject matter experts but receive little to any
training on how to teach successfully, so I will address strategies/techniques
to help them teach effectively in f2f classrooms. The teaching will be divided
between 4 live Adobe Connect sessions, over a period of 4 weeks.
Hi Kelli,
ReplyDeleteNice to be working with you again. Given your role, hopefully this content will be very useful! Specifically, my help is to go beyond what many of us in academia view as the role of evaluation - summative course evaluations that drive course enrollment, content, and instructor hiring decisions - to seeing the utility of evaluation in all aspects of our lives. From determining personnel management and team building effectiveness to even helping with mundane decisions around materials purchasing (imagine tracking paper product consumption in the office space to determine what ply of paper product gives you the most bang for your buck!). That's my end goal for everyone.
Your e-learning initiative sounds very interesting, and beneficial, across the University. You should think about that scalability as you conceptualize your evaluation plan.
All the best,
Chris