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Organization
of these Modules
Here are some of the ARQ topics (the list is growing and
changing almost every week). We invite subscribing
institutions to work with us on development. It's assumed that a)
faculty will work in small groups with professional or peer
leaders, b) they can pick and choose among modules, c) the
earlier modules develop skills that some of the later
modules build upon.
Modules that focus on a particular type of
activity and improvement
- Feedback to improve online discussion and collaboration.
- Feedback to improve
use of slides and
other presentation materials.
- Feedback to improve the use of
personal response systems
(also known as "clickers," classroom voting systems,
etc.).
- Feedback to improve brief
hybrid workshops
- Feedback useful for redesign of the course next
term, or next month (which assignments have been most
aligned with student needs? best at attracting students
to spend time and thought?)
- Creating norms (rules students will follow) by
voting
- Feedback to improve (online) homework assignments
- Feedback to improve use of electronic portfolios in
a course. (Click here
to see material, now under development, on which this
module will ultimately be based.)
- Feedback to improve learning communities
- Feedback to improve hybrid, 'just in time teaching'
and blended courses that use feedback from online work
to plan class meetings.
What topics should we add to this list?
We're looking for activities that are a) currently or
potentially important for the outcomes of a course or degree
program, b) reliant in part on computers, c) problematic -
they could be more successful than they are now.
Modules that are relatively generic
- "Questioning an Important Instructional Use of
Technology" guides faculty as they develop one question
for students about an important, problematic use of
technology in their course. This module also lays the
foundation for discussions of triads in later modules.
- Why use Flashlight Online?
(templates and item banks; adapting surveys written by
other faculty)
- How to use Flashlight Online
- Writing a reasonably unambiguous question for a
survey or feedback form. (Under development by Colin
Milligan, Glasgow Caledonian University.)
- Writing a question that is not leading
("loaded")
- What is a "triad," and how is this concept useful in
designing feedback forms and course research to improve
teaching and learning with technology in your course?
- Introducing
Chickering and Gamson's 'seven principles of good
practice. This module is not itself about evaluation
but it provides some useful conceptual background.
We are also developing other materials that local ARQ
leaders are likely to need including:
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