Monday, June 19, 2017

Enroll Now! EDUC 762 Assessment in E-Learning

Assessment of Student Learning in he Online Classroom.

EDUC 762 Assessment in E-Learning

Online Course 3 semester hours graduate credit
Instructor: Maggie Rouman
Summer: EDUC 762 961 June 26 - August 18, 2017
  • Tuition is the same for Wisconsin residents, out-of-state and international students.
  • There is no registration fee and no program application.

You will learn how to

  • Design assessment strategies for blended and online courses.
  • Evaluate, select, and manage online assessment tools.
  • Detect, document, and minimize plagiarism in the blended and online classroom.
  • Align Bloom’s taxonomy with learning objectives.
  • Create and use rubrics to define expectations and levels of achievement.
  • Efficiently increase the quality of formative and summative feedback to your students.
  • Use blogs, wikis, and online surveys to assess individual and group activities.
  • Share a professional e-portfolio with artifacts of your learning.

Who Should Enroll

Educators and trainers interested in using blended or fully online delivery for courses or training, or adding web-based components to enhance face-to-face instruction. Participants may include:
  • Technical and community college instructors (adjunct and full-time)
  • College and university professors (adjunct and full-time)
  • K-12 teachers (blended classrooms and virtual schools)
  • Clinical healthcare educators involved in patient education, healthcare education, continuing education or in-service education, community health education, or academic healthcare education
  • Trainers in corporations, professional associations, nonprofit organizations, government, and military
  • Curriculum consultants, professional development coordinators, and distance education and continuing education leaders

Description

Performance-based assessment, summative and formative feedback methods to assess student learning in the online classroom.
Enroll in the course to meet your goals for 
  • professional development
  • continuing education
  • license renewal
  • graduate credits to transfer to another university
  • an elective in the Master of Science in Education online degree.
This course is an approved elective in the Master of Science in Education online degree program and is one of the required courses for individuals pursuing the Graduate Certificate in E-Learning and Online Teaching.

Textbook

All readings will be provided online. There is no purchase of a textbook required.

Learning Outcomes

  1. Demonstrate development and use of academic standards across the curriculum and application of standards and objectives in online classroom assessment and evaluation.
  2. Analyze the assessment process including types of evaluations, the relationship of assessment to learning, institutional and curriculum objectives, online testing, high stakes testing, corporate assessment framework (CAF) and standardized testing.
  3. Apply mapping to align assessment to learning outcomes, develop rubric criteria and select appropriate online assessment.
  4. Apply current research and technology tools to create authentic assessment, discourse analysis, self and peer evaluation, rubrics, online surveys, tests and quizzes for self-paced tutorials.
  5. Value fairness and adapt e-learning assessments appropriately for diverse populations of students, including students with exceptionalities.
  6. Evaluate and utilize appropriate technology tools to support assessment, including blogs, wikis, audio, video, online surveys, and eportfolios.
  7. Demonstrate research-based practices for choosing assessment models and apply plagiarism detection tools and support ethics, community building and team trust that help prevent cheating.
No travel to campus is required.
Participate from your home or work computer during hours that are flexible and convenient for your work and family schedule and responsibilities.
The class is highly interactive with a significant discussion component.
All discussion postings, projects, and assignments will be submitted via the course discussion board and Dropbox.
Activities are conducted according to a schedule with specific due dates each week; there are no required "live" chat sessions.
This is not a self-paced course.

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Contact Us: Dennis O'Connor, Program Advisor
E-learning and Online Teaching Certificate
University of Wisconsin - Stout Menomonie, WI 54751
Phone: (530) 318-1145
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Tuesday, June 6, 2017

EDUC 653 Middle School Through Adult 6-Traits Writing Instruction

Teaching and Assessing Writing with the 6-Traits

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EDUC 653 Middle School Through Adult 6-Traits Writing Instruction

EDUC 654 PK Through Elementary 6-Traits Writing Instruction

Online Course 3 semester hours graduate credit
Instructor: Renee Williams
Summer: June 26 - August 18, 2017
Try the course for five days to determine if it meets your goals and needs. 

You Will Learn How to

  • Enhance student writing by teaching and assessing ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, conventions
  • Build the reading/writing connection using mentor texts
  • Use digital tools in the writing process
  • Use the writing process with multiple ways to teach
    Prewriting/Brainstorming
    Organizing and developing a message/drafting
    Revising/changing, rewriting, clarifying, deleting and regrouping text
    Editing/grammar, punctuation and spelling corrections
    Preparing product for publication/sharing
  • Engage students in the art of writing well
  • Develop time-saving assessment and feedback strategies using rubrics
  • Make connections between the 6-Traits, Common Core and writing across the curriculum

Who Should Enroll?

  • ESL/ELL teachers
  • Middle school and high school English and language arts teachers
  • Elementary teachers
  • K-12 teachers interested in writing across the curriculum, special education teachers
  • Technical and community college writing instructors
  • Curriculum coordinators
You may enroll in this course for
  • professional development
  • license renewal
  • graduate credits
  • transfer credit to another university
EDUC 653 Middle School Through Adult 6-Traits Writing Instruction   
Course Description: Concepts, instructional methods and assessment strategies for improving writing instruction, middle school through post-secondary. Self-assessment strategies, application of 6-traits, technology and software applications, and writing across the curriculum.
EDUC 654 PK Through Elementary 6-Traits Writing Instruction 
Course Description: Application of the 6-Traits approach to assessment and instruction of student writing in PK through grade 5. Study of the continuum of primary and elementary language arts skills and writing across the curriculum.

Textbook

An e-textbook is included as part of your course tuition.
Textbook for PK-3 teachers:Spandel, Vicki, (2011). Creating Young Writers: Using the Six Traits to Enrich Writing Process in Primary Classrooms (3rd Edition) (Creating 6-Trait Revisers and Editors Series), Pearson Education.ISBN: 978-0132685856
Textbook for Grades 4*, 5, Middle School, High School, and Adult Ed teachers:Spandel, Vicki. (2012). Creating Writers: 6 Traits, Process, Workshop, and Literature (6th Edition). Pearson. ISBN: 978-0132944106
*4th grade teachers, ESL, Special Ed, and teachers working in 'inclusive' classrooms could benefit from using both books.

Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
  1. Articulate an understanding of the historical foundations of the 6-traits writing movement and its relevance to classroom instruction.
  2. Analyze writing samples based on the critical attributes of each trait.
  3. Apply a variety of composing and revision techniques used in the writing process.
  4. Apply the 6-traits rubrics to analytically score writing samples and describe reasoning behind scoring decisions based on the point scale rubrics of Education Northwest (formerly NWREL).
  5. Utilize online databases to practice and calibrate analytical scoring for each of the 6-traits.
  6. Demonstrate effective strategies for teaching writing and differentiate 6-traits instruction based on a wide range of academic diversity including English language learners and special needs students.
  7. Redesign current writing lessons and integrate the 6-traits approach with developmentally appropriate learning activities.
  8. Analyze the impact of standardized testing on writing instruction and how 6-traits assessments help prepare students for Common Core state and national writing tests.
  9. Apply collaborative learning theory, model the technique with writing classes, and demonstrate technology use such as discussion forums, online writing centers, and blogs for writing assignments.
  10. Incorporate integrated technology activities and opportunities into writing lessons.
  11. Increase the frequency of student writing and strategic integration by carefully designed writing tasks.
  12. Practice providing in-depth and meaningful feedback to student writing.
  13. Write reflectively about the themes, topics, and issues involved in teaching with the 6-traits.
  14. Synthesize current research, contemporary theories, teaching strategies, and instructional technology to teach writing in content areas.

Alignment with Teaching Standards

Course objectives are aligned with the following:
Wisconsin Teaching Standards
(WI DPI) 1, 3, 7, 8, 9
National Board for Professional Teaching Standards 3 - Teachers are Responsible for Managing and Monitoring Student Learning
National Educational Technology Standards for Teachers
(NETS-T) 2, 3
No travel to campus required. Because this class is online and open to you 24/7, you may participate from your home or work computer during hours that are flexible and convenient for your work and family schedule and responsibilities.

The class is highly interactive with a significant discussion component. All discussion postings, projects, and assignments will be submitted via the course discussion board and Dropbox. Activities are conducted according to a schedule with specific due dates each week; there are no required "live" chat sessions.

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The School of Education reserves the right to cancel classes that do not meet minimum enrollment requirements.

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Contact Us: School of Education
Online Professional Development
University of Wisconsin - Stout Menomonie, WI 54751
Phone: 715-232-2693
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Saturday, June 3, 2017

Summer Time and the Learning is Phenomenal!

Enroll Today: Free Registration 

Join US at UW-Stout Online This Phenomenal Summer!



Please share this information with teachers in your district.
  • Do you need extra credits to renew your license?
  • Are you interested in an additional certification? 
All of our math specialist, reading teacher, classroom management, educational technology, and courses for school library media specialists are offered online.

Online Course Descriptions

Start Date: June 12
EDUC 652 Universal Design for Learning
EDUC 642 Teaching Digital Media Literacy with Primary Sources
EDUC 645 School-wide Positive Behavioral Intervention and Support (PBIS)
EDUC 658 Issues in STEM Education
EDUC 661 Advanced Trends and Interventions in PK-5 Mathematics Teaching
EDUC 662 Leadership for Math Specialists
EDUC 664 Teaching K-12 Coding and Computational Thinking


Start Date: June 19
EDUC 640 Poverty in the Schools
EDUC 651 Project-based Learning in the Flipped Classroom
EDUC 656 Bullying In Schools


Start Date: June 26
EDUC 653 Middle School Through Adult Writing Instruction
EDUC 654 PK Through Elementary Writing Instruction
EDUC 761 Creating Collaborative Communities In E-Learning
EDUC 762- Assessment In E-Learning


Start Date: July 5
EDUC 646 Using Games for Learning and Assessment
  • No travel to campus required.
  • Meet your PDP goals for continuing education or license renewal
  • The courses are approved electives in the Master of Science in Education online degree program. http://www.uwstout.edu/programs/mse/index.cfm
Register today for summer online classes to reserve a spot. Registration closes soon. No tuition is due until July 18.

Register Online

For more information or to request a copy of a syllabus, contact:
JOAN VANDERVELDE
Online Professional Development College of Education, Hospitality, Health and Human Sciences Teaching, Learning and Leadership
715-642-0209 office 
vanderveldej@uwstout.edu
Facebook 415 10th Ave. E. 
116 Heritage Hall Menomonie, WI 54751
University of Wisconsin-Stout Wisconsin's Polytechnic University
  http://www.uwstout.edu/soe/profdev/courses.cfm

Thursday, June 1, 2017

Project Management for Instructional Development

Project Management for Instructional Development

EDUC 768 Project Management for Instructional Development

Online Course 3 semester hours graduate credit
Instructors: Dr. Paul Coverstone or Jane MacKenzie 
Summer: June 26 - August 18, 2017

Who Should Enroll

NOTE: This is the final required course in the sequence for individuals pursuing the Graduate Certificate in Instructional Design.
This course is an approved elective in the Master of Science in Education online degree program. 

What Will You Learn

Course Description: Examination of the initiation, planning, and closure of instructional development projects and practical knowledge on managing project scope, work breakdown structure, schedules, and resources including budgeting. Analysis of instructional development project life cycle.
This course replicates projects in the "real world," and you will complete all work in teams. Your peers will depend on you for timely feedback as you interact via email and the discussion board during team and small work groups to complete assigned tasks. Therefore, students need to login and participate with their group several times each week. 

Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of the course, students will be able to:
  1. Break down the project management process and relate it to the instructional development process.
  2. Demonstrate an understanding of and application of components of the initiation phase by producing deliverables for the phase.
  3. Assess the value of a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) and create a WBS.
  4. Develop detailed schedules for instructional development projects.
  5. Select and organize resources necessary for successful project completion.
  6. Plan and apply the steps in project closure.
  7. Adapt project management and instructional design principles to scale single projects to multi-course production models.
Course objectives are aligned with the following standards:
Wisconsin Standards for Teacher Development and Licensure (WI DPI): # 4
International Society for Technology in Education, National Educational Technology Standards (NETS-T) # 3a, 5b
Because this class is asynchronous and open to you 24/7, you may participate from your home or work computer during hours that are best for your work and family schedule.
The class is highly interactive with a significant discussion component. All projects/assignments will be submitted via the course Dropbox and discussion board.

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EDUC 761 Creating Collaborative Communities in E-Learning

EDUC 761 Creating Collaborative Communities in E-Learning

Online Course 3 semester hours graduate credit
Instructor: Dr. Maryruth Hicks 
Summer: June 26 - August 18, 2017
  • Tuition is the same for Wisconsin residents, out-of-state and international students.
  • There is no registration fee and no program application.
  • E-textbook provided at no additional cost.
  • Includes full access to lynda.com self-paced video tutorials to help develop course management and other technology skills.

You Will

  • Design orientation activities for the first week in an online course.
  • Manage electronic communications.
  • Recognize characteristics of strong and weak discussion facilitation.
  • Apply facilitation techniques to deepen critical thinking.
  • Analyze, assess, and encourage learner participation in online discussions.
  • Demonstrate collaboration in online environments.
  • Analyze how Web 2.0 “tools” build online and blended community.
  • Represent your understanding of collaborative communities in your professional e-portfolio.

Description

Concepts, methods, and research for creating and facilitating a collaborative online community of practice.

Who Should Enroll

Educators and trainers interested in using blended or fully online delivery for courses or training, or adding web-based components to enhance face-to-face instruction.
Participants may include:
  • Technical and community college instructors (adjunct and full-time)
  • College and university professors (adjunct and full-time)
  • K-12 teachers (blended classrooms and virtual schools)
  • Clinical healthcare educators involved in patient education, healthcare education, continuing education or in-service education, community health education, or academic healthcare education
  • Trainers in corporations, professional associations, nonprofit organizations, government, and military
  • Curriculum consultants, professional development coordinators, and distance education and continuing education leaders
Enroll in the course to meet your goals for 
  • professional development
  • continuing education
  • license renewal
  • graduate credits to transfer to another university
  • an elective in the Master of Science in Education online degree.
This course is an approved elective in the Master of Science in Education online degree program and is the introductory course in the E-Learning and Online Teaching Graduate Certificate.
The course is highly interactive with a significant discussion component.
All discussion postings, projects, and assignments will be submitted via the course discussion board and Dropbox.
Activities are conducted according to a schedule with specific due dates each week; there is one required live chat session in Week 7. Participants will determine a time that is convenient for all.
This class is essential for those who are interested in a career as an online instructor.
This is not a self-paced course.

e-Textbook

An e-textbook will be provided when you login to the course. You may open the e-book to read online from your laptop or desktop. The e-textbook software is compatible with an iPad, Kindle Fire or fully internet-capable device. It is not compatible with a Kindle Reader.
Lehmann, Kay and Lisa Chamberlin (2009). Making the Move to eLearning: Putting Your Course Online. Rowman & Littlefield Education Publishers. (Paperback) ISBN-13: 978-1-60709-041-0.
If you prefer to read a paperback textbook, instead of reading via your computer or tablet, you may purchase the book from amazon.com. 
Additional readings and lectures will be available online within the text of each module.

Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
  1. Develop a personal philosophy that reflects learning theory and guides online instruction that creates an environment for reflection, critical thinking, and collaboration.
  2. Analyze the role of the online facilitator and develop strategies to implement, encourage and manage interaction in the online classroom.
  3. Demonstrate appropriate planning considerations, guidelines and procedures to establish a productive, engaging e-learning environment.
  4. Frame critical thinking questions and design discussion prompts that lead to effective learning in the online classroom.
  5. Apply understanding of learner differences when facilitating an online community of practice.
  6. Evaluate application ideas for online discussions using recognized criteria and professional references and apply current research about successful teaching strategies to guide students before, during and after case scenarios, brainstorming, role playing and reaction postings.
  7. Develop a facilitation eportfolio of useful tools, tips, and facilitation techniques as well as the beginnings of 70-30 course preparation developed during the course.

Alignment with Standards

Course objectives are aligned with the International Society for Technology in Education, National Educational Technology Standards, (NETS-T) III, VI
No travel to campus is required. You may participate from your home or work computer during hours that are flexible and convenient for your work and family schedule.

SIGN UP SOON!

Register online
The School of Education reserves the right to cancel classes that do not meet minimum enrollment requirements.

For More Information...

Request Information Online
Contact Us: Dennis O'Connor, Program Advisor
E-learning and Online Teaching Certificate
Telephone: 530-318-1145
University of Wisconsin - Stout Menomonie, WI 54751
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