1. Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity
During the time I've been in the MS Ed. Program, I've developed several "master" classes for both blended and fully online delivery. Courses run eight weeks in length and students take two courses at a time. Blended classes meet on-site for three hours and then move online for the remainder of each week. The courses I have developed include Digital Humanities, College Composition, Literature and Composition, and Experiential Learning (for internship students). I've also assisted on a course called "Liberal Arts Core Foundations." I've included some screenshots of the online Blackboard shells as well as some additional artifacts from these courses.
In Digital Humanities, undergraduate students examine and analyze the impact of
digital technologies on the human experience, from how augmented reality
and tablets have influenced how we learn to the role social media played in the Arab
Spring.
I invited a physicist working on the CERN Supercollider in Geneva to respond to student questions about the impact of digital technologies on the ground-breaking work she and her colleagues are doing in particle physics (Higgs-Boson). Because of the time difference (our class met at 3am her time), she put together a video that addressed their questions and took follow-up questions via email.
In the writing courses, we make use of McCann's MyAccess (you can see the icon in the "Week Five" screenshot below), an adaptive learning platform, to help students with their grammar and sentence level issues. Students use it for diagnostic and exit essays and may submit their other essays as well for some quick feedback throughout the term, addressing the issue of turnaround for our eight-week sessions. While not a perfect solution, it does allow instructors to focus on higher-level writing content such as argument and evidence. We also provide access to the Online Writing Community into each writing course as a way to embed remedial assistance as a co-requisite, rather than a prerequisite, as we do not offer pre-college courses in writing