Week 13 Blog Update on Progress

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What is left to do? What challenges have you faced? Will you be able to meet your timeline for completion? Why or why not? Will you be able to implement? Evaluate?

This week I finished all of the content that was needed on my course, and I am happy with where it is at the moment.  I think everything that I have created will achieve all of the learning goals that I set for at the start of the creation, but I know I haven’t created a perfect course.  That’s why I’m excited for it to be implemented so I can evaluate the effectiveness of the course.  

The peer reviews that I have received have been very helpful and they pointed out things that I did not see.  Fresh eyes and eyes of someone who doesn’t have any background in the subject was very helpful at finding things that weren’t clear in the way that I presented them.  

The most difficult things I have encountered were sticking to a plan and not always trying to improve it.  I would start out with an idea of what to teach, and then another one would pop up as I was fill out the content of the earlier idea.  Knowing which one of these ideas was worth starting over, and which were not was a big challenge.  I started a list of things I wanted to go back and do over once I finished if I had time, or on version 2.0 of this course.  I have been able to go back and look at that some, and even updated some of my lessons because of it.  

The timeline of completion should be fine.  While I didn’t stick exactly to the specific things I wanted to create on the initial timeline, I have made sure that I stayed up with content that was close to the original timeline.  I don’t foresee a problem finish all of this on time.  

Implementing will be interesting because I’m not sure if I will be able to teach this course in the spring.  If I do, I will absolutely implement this course and give it time to have some evaluation.  Even if I don’t teach it this year, I have a feeling that this course will be widely useful to me in the future.  There are a lot of courses that I can and want to teach that need this kind of introduction course.  

Even if I use just  little big of this course, I plan to have an evaluation at the end of it.  It might be something as simple as a conversation with the students, or something as intense as course evaluation form where I can pull real data in a controlled way.  I try to use the last days of the course to do the evaluation.  If there is a test, it is an activity I set up for after the test, and if it’s a project (like this one) I would set it up for the presentation day.  

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