I am now in week thirteen of course CECS 5510
Technology-Based Learning Environments. This has been the week to put the final
touches on my course development and the job aid that is associated with the
course. This has been an extremely busy week. Not only did I have finishing
touches to complete, but I also had peer reviews to complete for classmates.
First, I completed a peer review on my classmate’s job aid. After looking
through their job aid, I realized how differently these documents can look from
one developer to another. We each had different ideas on how to organize the
information for whoever would be facilitating the online course. Second, I had
to also complete a peer review for my classmate on the last quarter of their
course. Trying to complete these peer reviews and also put the final touches on
my course and job aid took more time than I anticipated.
Throughout this course, the biggest challenge
that I faced was the inconsistency of class loads from week to week. One week
seemed to be fairly easy to complete the activities, and then the following
week would be packed with extra assignments. I found myself constantly looking
ahead at the upcoming modules to see if there was anything I could work on
ahead of time. This was done in an effort to keep from being completely
overwhelmed in those weeks that had extra work.
As
far as completing my course development, I have stayed right on target with my
timeline. Pacing myself and sticking to my timeline in this course development
was crucial to being able to finish on time and keep the quality that I desired
in my course development. Since I will be using this course for summer training
as well as new teacher training, I wanted this course to be ready for deployment
once I was finished with the course.
Implementation
of this course will not happen prior to the end of this semester. However, I
have been able to use many of the videos and step by step directions that I
created in this course with teachers at my school. So far, I have found these
to have been created without error. The feedback I have received from teachers
has been very positive and they have been able to complete the tasks by using
the instructions provided. This makes me feel very good about providing this
course online to teachers next summer.
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