My name is Hervé Carpentier and I am a Lecturer in Computer Networking at the Manukau Institute of Technology. I am teaching students from Certificate to BET level, and most of these courses are making heavy use of online tools.
I am very busy at work, and am also reviewing on-line material for a course provider at the moment. (It must be nice to have a life !)
I have managed to create the blog at the beginning of this week, but never found the time to enter anything up to today. I am however keeping an eye on what is happening on the various blogs linked to the course.
I have taught all kinds of subjects, from secondary schools to university, in several countries. I have noticed a healthy appetite form everywhere for courses using eLearning technologies, even when they were not as accessible as today.
My interest in evaluation
I find evaluation an essential tool for getting feedback on students, course design and practises. Being a bit of a perfectionist, I am always on a look out for improvement in my teaching practises and material. It is all about improving the student experience of courses, helping retention on the way.
I hope that the Evaluation of eLearning for best practice course will help me to become more efficient in assessing courses and students using eLearning tools.
Evaluation project
Correct me if I am wrong, but I seem to understand from reading the resources available that we will have to evaluate a course which makes use of eLearning technologies.
I have developed a blended learning computer networking course last year. It was based on an existing course using eLearning. In the proposed new format, I was introducing new tools which would have enabled the students not to have to attend for each session. My evening class students are sometime travelling from far away after a long day at work.
The course did not go through at the end. Five days before the beginning of the semester, the provider of the online course came out with requirements which we could not fulfil at such a short notice.
I am thinking of analysing this proposal, or a new proposal which would enable me to get the course approved for next year.
What do you think?
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Hi, nice to know you work for MIT too. Hope we got a chance to chat later ^_^
ReplyDeleteLooking forward to learning the course with you
Hello Herve
ReplyDeletefirst of all, an excellent post with a great explanation about yourself and your reasons for studying the evaluation course. I think your idea of reviewing the proposal and rethinking the design of the course will be a very worthy project indeed. So I guess the first step is to take another look at the so-called "deficiencies" and strengths in your original proposal from an accreditation perspective and also a design perspective. In other words conduct a SWOT analysis - strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. Do you think this is a good starting point?
Also look at what do you agree to change and what do you see as problematic to change, e.g. does it compromise your teaching and learning preferences and those of your students? How will you redesign your proposal to fit the requirements of the accreditation body?