Managing Expectations: Directed Self-Placement for In-Person or Online Courses
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Managing Expectations Chris Friend (@chris_friend) University of Central Florida
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Reviews insights gathered from students and teachers working on f2f and hybrid versions of an outcomes-based first-year composition program at a large research university. Proposes an approach for directed self-placement that draws from student experiences and awareness, balancing them with teacher expectations for the courses. Text similar to the content presented with these slides can be found on this blog post: http://bit.ly/11uAhDl
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Managing Expectations
Chris Friend (@chris_friend)University of Central Florida
Courses in the 2000sOnline: Exciting Hybrid: Effective
Online courses started the conversation; hybrids won
support from research.
Practice has not caught up.
New Laws
Florida’s high-school students are required to
take one fully online course before graduation.
Meet the MOOC
MOOCs are newsworthy but uncommon for
traditional students.
Course Registration
Course Registration
Course Registration
Students use schedule and instructor reviews to
choose classes.
The Disparity
Teachers Students
Desired Flexibility
Needed Guidance
Source of Preparedness
class “meetings” weekly deadlines
converted instruction direct assistance
learning styles content types
Student/teacher expectations for online
courses differ drastically.
FYC students have no experience with hybrid
courses…
Course Content
Humanities Sciences
Online
Face-to-Face
processing/writing time
objective assessments
idea complexity/conversation procedural tasks
…however, students know what works for
them online. We should use that knowledge to
help inform DSP.
Student Needs
✤ More than an M✤ Guidance on Variation
✤ scheduling (by definition)
✤ content types (by student)
✤ teaching styles (by instructor)
Directed Self-Placement
Face-to-Face Online Hybrid
Scheduling vs Independence
Hard Sciences Humanities
Gratitude: Visual Credits
✤ Color scheme (You are beautiful) by Sanguine on colourlovers
✤ “Cave troll contemplates God, financial accounting” by Kevin Dooley on Flickr; used by Jesse Stommel for MOOC MOOC
✤ Stormtrooper images from JD Hancock on Flickr:✤ Ill-Gotten (title slide image)✤ Invasion: Texas! (capitol
building)✤ The Dark Storm (Batman hybrid)✤ The Death Star plans are not in
the main computer (online learning)
✤ Imperial Art Appreciation: Black (Thank you sign)
