Talk:MUN/Design blueprint
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| Considerations for the webinars / broadcast workshops | 1 | 13:48, 18 November 2014 |
| Thinking about formative assessment as conceptual building blocks and lever for promoting peer interaction | 0 | 21:17, 13 November 2014 |
| Allocation of students to countries | 0 | 20:57, 13 November 2014 |
Have a think about the practical implications of the broadcast workshops for OERu learners.
- Time zone issues (yes you can post recordings) but two hours may be a tad long. Perhaps there is a creative way of consolidating the essence of the workshop in a shorter session (1 hour) and then remote participants complete their activities asynchronously while local students carry on with their work?
- Check with your license agreement regarding how many seats you can provide on adobe for remote participants and if guest access is easily allowed.
Thinking about formative assessment as conceptual building blocks and lever for promoting peer interaction
Sarah and team - that's a solid blueprint. I'm impressed and reading this inspires me to want to register for the course.
The nature and structure of the course lends itself well to incorporating structured e-Activities as building blocks your summative assessment. These could take the form of blog posts / reflective journal like activities covering discrete steps leading up to the preparation of the summative assessment items (eg the issues paper). These e-activities are a good way to generate peer learning support for the OERu learners.
My recommendation is to keep things simple, rather than rely on software allocations for countries during the first iteration.
The challenge with OERu learners is how the software will deal with attrition of learners. If the allocations are based on a viable group size at the beginning of the course, you need to think about what happens if the group numbers drop below a viable group size.
I'd keep it simple for the first iterations of the course until we have more reliable date on the size of the cohort etc, for example:
- Where appropriate, "dictate" a small number of countries to guarantee a viable group size and shared resources for designated activities.
- Work with a simple table of learners where they declare their countries and let the cohort self-organise, rather than attempting software algorithms to allocate groups.
