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alexandra m. pickett

Does Class Size Matter? - Distance Education Report Article - 1 views

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    Does class size matter? http://www.magnapubs.com/newsletter/distance-education-report/270/Does-Class-Size-Matter-13523-1.html This article originally appeared in Distance Education Report. I've been the director of online education at my institution since 2007. One question I've been asked many times over the years is "What is the optimal number of students to have in an online class?" My usual response is to pretend I didn't hear the question and walk away as quickly as possible. Well, that's not totally true. But as you can imagine, this is not an easy question to answer, as there are many variables that come into play--the topic of the class, the overall course design, the academic rank of students in the class, the experience of the instructor teaching the class, etc. I've had many interesting discussions with students, staff and administrators over the years about enrollments in online courses. When I first started teaching online, my courses would fill almost immediately, sometimes within minutes. Inevitably, students would contact me and request an override for the course - not just one or two students, but dozens upon dozens of students. They were usually surprised when I said no. These frustrated students would often reply with a comment such as, "But it's an online class, so you can take unlimited numbers of students and it won't be any additional work for you." Surprisingly, I've heard this kind of comment from some faculty, staff and administrators as well. I usually view these interactions as opportunities to offer a bit of education about online learning. So I might say, for example, that if I had seven graded assignments in my online course, and 25 students, I would end up grading 175 assignments--with the emphasis on "I." However, if I doubled the number of students in my class and graded seven assignments for 50 students, that would be 350 assignments to grade. There were also 22 quizzes, two exams and multiple
alexandra m. pickett

getFAST.ca - Free Assessment Summary Tool Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.... - 0 views

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    "The FAST project is committed to providing users with a simple online tool for assessing their students' impressions of their courses and their teaching. Using the software does not cost anything"
alexandra m. pickett

Using a Proposed Library Guide Assessment Standards Rubric and a Peer Review Process to... - 0 views

  • SUNY’s Online Course Quality Review Rubric or OSCQR a
  • OSCQR is an openly licensed online course review rubric that allows use and/or adaptation (OSCQR-SUNY, n. d.). SUNYY-OSCQR’s rubric is a tool that can be used as a professional development exercise when building and/or refreshing online courses (OSCQR-SUNY, n.d.).
  • The SUNY Online Course Quality Review Rubric OSCQR to re-mix as the Library Guide Assessment Standards Rubric with annotations. 
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  • his OSCQR-SUNY tool envelopes the varying perspectives of Bergstrom-Lynch (2019), Smith et al. (2023), and German et al. (2017). 
alexandra m. pickett

sciencecourseware.org - 0 views

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    "The Virtual Courseware Project produces interactive, online simulations for the life science laboratory or for earth science field studies. The activities are designed to enhance an existing curriculum and include online assessments. They can be used by students ranging from middle school, high school, or college classrooms. "
danfeinberg

Assessment Design and Cheating Risk in Online Instruction - 0 views

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    Study outlining the relationship between how assessments are set up and how often students cheat. Some good info hear about online integrity.
alexandra m. pickett

Is technology the best way to stop online cheating? No, experts say: better teaching is. - 0 views

  • The better question than "how can I stop cheating?" is "how can I best facilitate and assess learning?"
  • "Students are more likely to engage in dishonesty when they’re under stress and pressure, when the norms are unclear, and when there are temptations and opportunities," she said.
  • "when students don’t feel connected and a sense of belonging to the learning community, whether it's online or face-to-face, they are more likely to detach from any sense of collective community responsibility or ethics and substitute for that a pure ethic of mercenary self-interest,"
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  • 'What’s the best teaching and learning experience I can construct and deliver for the vast majority of students who are there to learn authentically and who want to succeed?'"
alexandra m. pickett

Quia - 0 views

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    Quia is pronounced key-uh and is short for Quintessential Instructional Archive. Quia provides a variety of educational services, including: * A directory of thousands of online games and quizzes in more than 40 subject areas * Templates for creating twelve different types of online games, including flashcards, matching, concentration (memory), word search, hangman, challenge board, and rags to riches (a quiz-show style trivia game) * Tools for creating online quizzes * Quiz administration and reporting tools * Free teacher home pages
Julie Golden

The Impact of Identity Disruption and Participation in Communities of Practice on Facul... - 2 views

Study participants are needed for a research project regarding online faculty satisfaction, faculty identity, and communities of practice. https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/VHKJRN2 Please consider...

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