User:Vtaylor/TSLR Course outline

DeAnza College

I. Catalog information

CAOS 198Y .. Technology Supported Learning and Retention .. 2 Units

May be taken up to three times for credit

Pass - No Pass (P-NP) course

Four hours lecture-laboratory

Advisories: English Writing 200 and Reading 200 (or Language Arts 200), or English as a Second Language 261, 262 and 263.

Developing effectiveness in instructional situations and understanding the complex challenges of supporting learning with technology. Adapting good practices in undergraduate education to build technology-supported learning activities to promote mastery of learning objectives.

II. Course Objectives


 * A. Discuss how technology can be used to encourage student-faculty contact.
 * B. Describe activities that encourage cooperation among students.
 * C. Apply technologies that encourage active/engaged learning.
 * D. Discuss techniques to give prompt feedback.
 * E. Show how to use technology to emphasize time on task.
 * F. Demonstrate using appropriate technology to communicate high expectations.
 * G. Explain the ways to respect diverse talents and ways of learning with technology.
 * H. Explain the applicability of technology supported learning to the Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education.

III. Essential Student Materials


 * None

IV. Essential College Facilities


 * Online course management system

V. Expanded Description: Content and Form


 * A. Encourage student-faculty contact
 * 1. Participate in several forms of technology enhanced student-faculty contact.
 * 2. Discuss applicability of technology to traditional expectations for student-faculty contact and identify differences.
 * 3. Suggest new learning activities.


 * B. Encourage cooperation among students
 * 1. Participate in activities as students that require cooperation.
 * 2. Assess the challenges and benefits of technology in student cooperation.
 * 3. Discuss the role of group projects learning in higher education.
 * 4. Use choices and surveys for group selection work on group projects, small group discussions, introduction to the wiki for collaborative writing.
 * 5. Discuss peer review process and applicability.


 * C. Encourage active/engaged learning
 * 1. Review strategies for including active and engaged learning in instruction.
 * 2. Discuss problem-based learning in higher education.
 * 3. Create an activity that requires new approach to instruction of curriculum content and add activity to own course.
 * 4. Discuss assessing student performance.


 * D. Give prompt feedback
 * 1. Review issues of plagiarism, intellectual property, cheating.
 * 2. Investigate tools for assessing student learning.
 * 3. Complete quizzes and develop quiz questions and quizzes in own course.
 * 4. Complete assignments with feedback and add activity with feedback to own course.
 * 5. Discuss appropriate level of control and feedback response for learning being assessed.


 * E. Emphasize time on task
 * 1. Review types of media.
 * 2. Discuss use of media in course work.
 * 3. Access media types.
 * 4. Locate and include media appropriate for own course.
 * 5. Explore other activity types and suggest suitability - books, workshop, etc.
 * 6. Discuss accessibility issues, adaptive and resistive technologies.


 * F. Communicate high expectations
 * 1. Review communication tools.
 * 2. Understand grading options and displays.
 * 3. Review tracking features.
 * 4. Discuss student expectations and instructor's role in setting course expectations.
 * 5. Participate in communication activities - asynchronous and real-time.
 * 6. Explore grading options and setting in own course.
 * 7. Discuss evaluating student participation and performance.


 * G. Respect diverse talents and ways of learning
 * 1. Review learning styles, learning modality, cultural differences.
 * 2. Discuss impact of technology and learning styles.
 * 3. Plan and add activities to own course to address learning modality differences.
 * 4. Discuss implications for student / instructor learning style differences.


 * H. Apply technology supported learning to the Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education
 * 1. Participate in several forms of technology supported learning activities.
 * 2. Suggest new learning activities.

VI. Assignments
 * A. Reading
 * 1. Required reading from course notes
 * 2. Reading from selected online resources
 * B. Computer activities
 * 1. Problems solving activities using appropriate technologies
 * 2. Interactive discussions to develop critical thinking skills

VII. Methods of Instruction
 * A. Individual problem solving and reflection
 * B. Online discussion
 * C. Formal exercises to provide student perspective

VIII. Methods of Evaluating Objectives
 * A. Student will complete objective quizzes and tests with a minimum of 70% accuracy.
 * B. Student must satisfactorily complete problem-solving activities using the computer.
 * C. Student must score at least 70% on all technology-supported learning activities.
 * D. Student must score at least 70% on all discussion participation assessments.

IX. Texts and Supporting References


 * A. Required textbook


 * B. References


 * C. Internet topics on Teaching, Learning and Technology