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Summary
The activities in this module have provided you with an opportunity to adjust and refine the course design pattern that you began in Module 03. Putting your weekly course design pattern in the Course Design Map helps you to identify the content and context of the various activities and assessments. You are encouraged to continue adjusting and aligning the objectives, assessments, and activities in order to improve the alignment and satisfy Quality Matters standards.
Your student evaluation plan is the roadmap to student success in your course. By helping students see the target from the beginning, we foster their capacity to develop the skills they need to perform at the level we set for them. By balancing the types of assessments, and how each contributes to their final grade, we tell students what we value.
If you have any questions about any of the content in this module, please contact your instructional design consultant. Our goal is that you are able to complete a course design map without assistance by the time we have finished our seminar.
Resources
Using Reflection Surveys to Improve Teaching and Learning – A short article by Jackie Dobrovolny and Patrick Lowenthal about the benefits of using reflection surveys to make informed changes while teaching online.
Course Evaluations: Helping Students Reflect on Their Feedback – A blog post in Faculty Focus by Maryellen Weimer, longtime editor of The Teaching Professor newsletter. She summarizes an article titled Student Reflection on Quality Teaching and How to Assess It in Higher Education by Joseph “Mick” La Lopa, who describes how he borrowed ideas from human resource management to engage students in critical reflection on teaching. Note especially the comments from faculty at the end of the post; you’ll find more ideas for evaluation from peers at other universities.
Transforming Teaching Through Supplementary Evaluations – Rationale for evaluation and several ideas for conducting it, in a blog post in Faculty Focus by Karyn Tunks of the University of South Alabama
