Learning Stories - Chapter 1 Searching for Problems and Opportunities; Intervening and Reforming
Posted on February 27, 2008
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Today, 11:30 – 1:00 in Faculty Staff Club we’re kicking off
Learning Stories: Adventures in Course Redesign
Chapter 1: Searching for Problems and Opportunities; Intervening and Reforming
This is a new venue hear from and talk to several of our 2007 Course Design Institute Fellows.
Presenters
Jesse Dixon, Recreation, Parks, and Tourism
Rec 304 124 students
“My intent was to create a learning community centered around Blackboard as an “Eplatform” and redesigned teaching strategies. . . .”
Vinod Sasidharan, Recreation, Parks, and Tourism
Rec 404 75 students
“Students enjoyed having BlackBoard as a “one-stop-shop” portal for all class-related needs. Traditional forms of papers were described by students as being “not very enriching.” Overall, I think students enjoyed the utilization of technology for meeting Learning Outcomes. . . . ”
Tim Wulfemeyer, Journalism and Media Studies
JMS 200 420 students
‘We changed the structure/format of JMS 200 dramatically. We incorporated traditional lectures with F2F and online discussion sections. We had 20 such sections that were monitored by teaching assistants. . . .”
Suzanne
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It’s worth noting that Tim’s proposal to present on his course redesign at the CSU Regional Symposium on Teaching & Learning in April was accepted … several other SDSU proposals for that event, most related to course redesign, were also accepted.
Congratulations Tim!
Interesting commonality between all three presenters - dissatisfaction with the status quo in terms of student learning - even though surface indicators / student satisfaction may not have indicated some sort of issue.
As a first-time user of clickers this semester, I have been investing most of my time creating new lecture content for my senior-level course. Because of these workshops, I’ve only had a few glitches (e.g., my CPS database was wiped out when I forgot to back it up when I had my laptop wiped of its Vista platform so that EXP could be installed).