I’ve been thinking about assignments for this course.
We have two groups: those who are interested in enrolling and paying for credit (~30 - we’re technically full, but if you’re still interested, we could likely add one or two more) and those who are interested in taking the course for free.
Assignments for enrolled learners will include:
- Weekly reflections via blogs and/or podcasts.
- Several short opinion papers (~2 pages/500 words, can be produced as a blog post)
- Weekly personal concept maps of how ideas/concept relate (using CMAP - free download)
- Group work concept map summarizing distributed conversation (groups of 2 and 3 will each be assigned one week where they are responsible for maintaining/developing the concept map).
- Final presentation - using any tool. I’d recommend Articulate if you’re using PowerPoint(free trial download). This presentation will address the following: What is the quality of my learning networks: diversity, depth, how connected am I? How has this course influence your view of the process of learning (assuming, of course, that it has)? What types of questions are still outstanding? This presentation will be approx 15-20 minutes in length.
For other participants
Participants who are taking the course for personal interest, not enrolled, obviously don’t have formal assignment requirements. However, I’d encourage participants to provide comments through blogs tagged with the course tag (CCK08), contribute to the Moodle forum, create and share concept maps, and so on. I’m hoping that the availability of an open course will result in a higher level of dialogue for all learners - both enrolled and otherwise.
Is it a fair request to ask all participants to reflect/contribute to the conversation? Or how would you provide an assignment/assessment structure?