Enroll Now! EDUC 762 Assessment in E-Learning

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, Due Dates, and Registration

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

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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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Project-based Learning in the Flipped Classroom

EDUC 651 Project-based Learning in the Flipped Classroom

Online Course 2 graduate credits
Instructor: Maggie Rouman
Summer: June 19 - July 28, 2017

Tuition, Due Dates, and Registration

You Will Learn

• Instructional strategies for implementing the flipped/blended approach to support project-based learning
• Implications for classroom management, learner motivation and engagement
• Performance-based assessments for project-based learning
• Cooperative learning and peer tutoring activities to support project-based learning
• Theories of learning that support the use of flipped/project-based learning
• Selection or creation of videos and other multimedia web-based learning objects using evidence-based flipped classroom instructional design principles
• How flipped/project-based learning meets the needs of diverse learners, including differences based on race, age, gender, socioeconomic status, ability, disability, and learning styles

Who Should Enroll

• K-12 teachers (blended classrooms and virtual schools)
• Technical and community college instructors (adjunct and full-time)
• College and university professors (adjunct and full-time)
• 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

The flipped/blended model supports any grade level including primary grades, any subject and learner.

Description

Instructional strategies for design, management, and assessment of standards-focused, project-based learning (PBL) in the flipped classroom. Use of multimedia and online resources to support collaboration and increase learner motivation and engagement.

This course is an approved elective in the Master of Science in Education online degree program. NOTE: You may enroll in this course to meet your goals for professional development, license renewal, or to complete graduate credits and transfer the credit to another university.

Technology Skills Needed

A basic understanding of how to search online for instructional videos or other media and/or how to create and upload a video file

Textbook

Bergmann, J. and Sams, A. (2012). Flip your classroom: Reach every student in every class every day. Eugene, OR. International Society for Technology in Education. ISBN: 978-1564843159.

Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of this course, learners will be able to:

1. Critically analyze and reflect on benefits and drawbacks of the flipped approach based on curricular need.
2. Collaborate with others using online tools and demonstrate how to locate or create video  and other teaching materials for home use by learners for a specific instructional need.
3. Create project-based learning units and assessment action plans and field test the flipped approach and demonstrate ability to determine a curricular/training fit in instructional decision-making.
4. Design cooperative learning and peer tutoring activities using the flipped approach and utilize self and group assessment rubrics to assess group work and team activities.
5. Critique scenarios and analyze best practices for effective management to minimize disruptive behavior and increase engaged learning.
6. Interpret assessment results of field tests and assess the effectiveness in supporting identified learner outcomes.

Alignment with Standards

Course objectives are aligned with the following:
Wisconsin Standards for Teacher Development and Licensure (WI DPI) 4, 6, 7, 9, 10
National Board for Professional Teaching Standards 3

No travel to campus is required.

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 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.

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
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