PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS (Summer 2008)
Successful completion of the following requirements will result in a
one-time, $1,500 course development stipend added to the regular salary
and payment schedule for teaching a winter or summer special session
course.
December 7
- Submit a SU2008 Special Session course proposal stating your intention to offer a hybrid or online course.
February 1
- Ask your department chair to send a “letter of support” to Beth Jones (ejones@umbc.edu) and John Fritz (fritz@umbc.edu).
- Note: if you send it on behalf of your chair, it must be signed by the chair, digitally scanned, and included as .PDF (portable document format) file attachment to your email.
March 7
- Attend the Hybrid Course Design Workshop
If you attended a prior workshop (8/22/07 or 11/16/07), you will present your first deliverable (described below) at the 3/7/08 workshop at noon. You will present your second deliverable on April 11.
If you haven't attended a prior workshop, you will present your first deliverable on April 11 and your second deliverable on May 1.
April 11
- Submit a draft syllabus for how your redesigned course might look for hybrid delivery in summer or winter session. You can submit the draft syllabus on the Hybrid Course Design "Practice" site on Blackboard (all users are enrolled as instructors, so you must request access by sending email to John Fritz at fritz@umbc.edu).
- Present a learning object, module, assignment, activity or exercise that you plan to use in your course (10-20 minutes), noon-1:30 p.m., ECS 023. A review panel of faculty who have taught a summer or winter ADP course twice will hear the presentation, which is open to the campus and will be videotaped (past presentations are also available for review on the Teaching and Learning section of UMBC's free iTunesU site at http://itunes.umbc.edu)
It is important to understand there are two distinct parts to this requirement: 1) creating the learning object others can review online, on their own time, and 2) giving a presentation about the learning object on a specific date & time. Here are some guidelines to keep in mind:
- The learning object should specifically address the pedagogical problems (or implications) a hybrid or online course solves (or creates).
- So others can view it, you must post your learning object on the companion Hybrid Course Design “Practice” site, to which all users have instructor access upon request (send email to fritz@umbc.edu).
- The presentation must include a peer AND student review to gauge the learning object’s potential effectiveness.
- Reqired presentation outline:
1) problem
2) solution
3) summary of student/peer review
4) next steps and
5) Q & A.
Note: If you cannot present to the panel in person, the learning object deliverable AND narrated presentation must be posted on the Hybrid Course Design "Practice" site in Blackboard. Just as you would need to do so in your hybrid course, if you cannot present in person, you need to solve the problem of your absent presence in making a preentation to the review faculty panel.
May 1
- Present 2nd Deliverable (3/7/08 Workshop attendees)
- Provide a “peer review” of another ADP participant’s learning object and presentation using the Hybrid Course Design Practice Bb site (all SU2008 ADP participants).
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