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Use of online professional development as well as collaborating with peers is important to further education. Change occurs frequently. As educators, we must be assessing, designing, developing, implementing, and evaluationg the teaching environment and content.
Frequently evaluating, analysing, and updating content is crucial in online learning.
Course repositories are extremely useful. One think to keep in mind; however, is that links must be checked regularly to make certain they still work and material should be kept current. The longer an instructor teaches a course, the more they will have to pull on when making course revisions.
Nancy Tosh
As an instructor, I have learned the importance of altering a course in order to maximize my students' learning potential.
My main take away is that professional development can be an informal process via observation.
Professional development and embracing the ongoing need for change will promote success in the online program.
Formative and summative evaluations of a course lead to constructive revisions of a course.
Professional development can be obtained via workshops, conferences, and other experienced online instructors.
Course revisions should happen frequently and in a way that is only improving the course information.
I didn't realize you could update a syllabus. It makes sense and can improve student retention of the subject.
The importance of keeping course content fresh and up to date and that summative course evaluations may provide detailed information which may need to be analyzed and assessed for appropriate revisions and take longer, typically 1-2 weeks.
Workload Management Strategies for Teaching Online --> WLMS for Course Revisions
Instructors need to seek Professional Development and can be both formal or informal. This improves skills, manges workload, and improves instruction to enhance the learning process.
(ADDIE) Analysis, Design, Developement, Implementaiton, and Evaluation can be used for Course Revision which best derived from a variety of aduinces, Student, Peers, and Aministrators.
Key Elements or Objects should be Dynamic Elements to keep information relevent to providing students learning needs. Formative Revision is dynamic and communicates to students when to Start, Stop, or Continue doing in their learning process.
Be open to change the way you teach it is not set in stone be willing to change remember you are putting out things they need to know but sometimes tweaking is needed to get point across to all students not everyone learns the same way we as instructors may need to adjust our information flow to reach all students
Revisions to instruction is a ongoing process. As you are doing your revisions you should keep copies of courses so that they can be obtained in their original content.
I've gained perspective on how to save time and energy. Much of this I have been doing intuitively, but this serves as an excellent opportunity for fine-tuning practices.
formative revisons can be done while course is in session, summative take longer and should be done at end of course. I like the odea of a course repository for old documents o be able to reus ethem later.
Stay up to date with course revisions in real time, rather than waiting at the end of the course. Also, keep a log of our course changes and updates in case you want to go back to an earlier version.