“dreaming the impossible dream: a completely customizable online course”
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“Dreaming the Impossible Dream: A Completely Customizable Online Course”
Dr. Laura Yost & Alan PeterkaDistance Learning
Defining the Starting Point
"UCLA:X = UCLA:Xtreme! This course represents the first customizable
ATAW offering at Kirkwood - meaning students have the option to choose
which projects they complete."
Customizable: a coursein which, with some instructor-
provided structure, students can select the content they study
Customizable: more than just permitting selection of paper
topics. Meaningful control of one’s learning path.
Benefits
ChallengesConsiderations
Examples
Sources
Where To Go From Here?
Useful Tools
The Benefits of Customizing
• Empowers enrolled students• Promotes intellectual creativity • Focuses on flexible content• Breaks grading monotony• Respectful of values• Thought and introspection• Displays breadth of fields• Disruptive innovation
Considerations When Customizing
• Information-intensive• Communication-intensive• Standardizing essential• Foster relationships• Course outcomes• Minds change
Approaches to Customizing
• Select umbrella units by topic • Create patterned projects• Expand ideas of assessment• Collaborative, democratic• Learning styles• Bloom’s or other taxonomy
Approaches to Customizing
Challenges to Customizing
• Content development• Balanced unit exercises• General working confusion• Option overload• Grading• High enrollment
Examples of Customizing
Examples of Customizing
Examples of Customizing
Customizing Sources
Some Useful Customizing Tools
Brainstorming About CustomizingChoose one or more of the following…
• How many words/phrases can you think of to describe the act of learning?• What choices could be offered when
teaching others your favorite card game?• Draw a sketch depicting the depth &/or
breadth of your subject.• Write down the hard choices you made
today – how did you decide?• Describe a metaphor for choice infused
course work.
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Q&A