Talk:Creating sustainable futures/Design blueprint
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| Thread title | Replies | Last modified |
|---|---|---|
| Level 7 Assessment on hold | 0 | 22:02, 2 September 2016 |
| Query - Is assessment optional? | 6 | 12:06, 29 April 2016 |
| Thought about shifting outcomes in the design blueprint into the course descriptions | 1 | 01:27, 30 March 2016 |
| Course Aims | 1 | 11:46, 26 March 2016 |
| Design blueprint is in good shape - nearing "signoff" | 2 | 11:36, 26 March 2016 |
| Consider designing this course for open boundary format | 0 | 11:56, 19 March 2016 |
Kia ora,
I am currently assisting with establishing some systems for the credentialing assessments towards OP courses. It has become apparent that the Level 5 option is sound, but the level 7 option has not been approved by academic board. It can however be assessed at level 6.
Is the consensus to withdraw the alternative higher level assessment or to change to a level 6 assessment?
Ray OP Online
Carol,
Yes -saying assessment is optional can be confusing because it is compulsory of you are studying for credit.
Perhaps we can amend along the following lines
Learners can participate out of self interest and select the actives they would like to complete. Some of these activities may be designated as part of the assignments for formal academic credit. Learners seeking formal credit must submit the required assignments for assessment.
W
I have reviewed the content in more detail and believe that microcourses 1 and 2 equate to an existing 15 credits course at level 5 and microcourses 3 and 4 equate another 15 credits of level 5. It wont take much to adjust the assessment schedule to reflect this and I will do that. The level 7 credits also equate but will take a bit more to tweak the assessment descriptors......
Steve,
When did this structure change?
During the original meeting with OP online with Veronique back in October 2014 you identified the four micro courses as a 15 credit course - see your edits in the wiki.
Now after investing considerable time and effort - you're changing the structure. The OERu model requires 4 micro courses of approximately 40 hours each for the 15 credits.
- How do you propose subdividing the first two micro's into four equal parts?
- Can you please share the Otago Poly programme documentation for the level 5 courses.
Steve,
I've traced and uploaded the official Certificate in Sustainable Practice programme specification (pdf) document from OP.
As far as I can see, the "Why sustainable practice" 15 credit course is the OERu one we are developing as "Creating sustainable futures". We can't change the current development into a 30 credit course. I don't see how this will fit?
The Certificate in SP and its courses will be discontinued from 2018 so we are looking at a replacement. Level 5 is a challenge though. We have a qual at level 7 to use and I am looking for a suitable qual at level 5 to have creating sustainable futures as an elective.
Thought about shifting outcomes in the design blueprint into the course descriptions
Carol
The blueprint is a high-level description for the four micros. So thinking out loud, I don't think we need an "outcomes" subheading in the blueprint because these can be covered in the individual course descriptions for each micro. I propose that we delete the outcomes sub-heading in the blueprint and deal with this at the level of the individual micro-course descriptions.
What do you think?
W
I've added these from https://docs.google.com/document/d/1puddNxQMywwpexOFUWuiqK3BCqBcssh-l_v9JocXVbs/edit but I'm not sure this is right. Please advise.
Outcomes still needed
Carol,
I think those are the course aims - Steve can confirm. In the spirit of "rough consensus and running code" lets go with those. If the SMEs want to change them later - well its a wiki and they can make changes on the understanding that they would also be responsible for any of the downstream changes resulting from amendments to the high-level course aims.
I found this description on the Otago Poly site - If you click on "What's involved" there is further information which is aligned with what we have in the aims.
Carol, I've reviewed the blueprint. Its in good shape. The only bits we need are the inputs from the SMEs.
Made a few minor tweaks (you can check the edit history.) I added a section to clarify delivery options so as to maximise future reuse potential.
This is looking good and pretty close to "sign off" by the team imo.
Agree about the video signpost for each learning pathway. Have added to the blueprint.
Yep - The implementation may be subject to the SMEs being able to do this, however I suspect that we would be able to find suitable open access video on a range of the sustainability topics which could be used as a "stimulus" for the concepts to be introduced in the relevant learning pathway.
We'll see how we go and work with what we have.
An open boundary format course is assembled for dual purpose delivery:
- Full service online course provided through Otago polytechnics LMS (possible TANZ ecampus where both use a Moodle back end) with
- OERu learners studying in parallel using the OERu platform for an assessment only model.
We generate a single source of learning content (i.e. the individual learning pathways) which is reused in the LMS and OERu delivery platform.
WENotes is used as a technology to aggregate learner interactions including selected but designated "open forums" in the LMS where learners are advised that posting to an open forum that their posts will be published openly. (In addition to the open forums there are the normal "closed" forums where lecturers provide tutorial support for full-fee students.) OERu learners do not receive online tutorial support. We have prototyped these technologies previously using Moodle combined with the OERu platform during a post-graduate mOOC offered at the University of Canterbury.
I suggested the idea to Phil Ker a few weeks ago, and he was most supportive.
Question for the SMEs - should / can we design this course for open boundary delivery.
