Comments on: Teaching Open Source Learning Objectives http://mihaelasabin.net/2010/08/24/teaching-open-source-learning-objectives/ About random whereabouts Thu, 24 May 2012 20:18:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Mihaela Sabin http://mihaelasabin.net/2010/08/24/teaching-open-source-learning-objectives/#comment-7 Wed, 01 Sep 2010 10:25:47 +0000 http://mihaelasabin.net/?p=221#comment-7 I haven’t thought about the extent to which a textbook or workshop addresses #1, #2, #3 above. I had in mind a typical classroom for an entire term with students, instructors, textbooks and other resources, scheduled classes, and graded work. A good book I recommend for making sense of the many challenges of assessment is Barbara Walvoord’s “Assessment clear and simple: A practical guide for institutions, departments, and general education.” She has another excellent one, co-authored with Virginia Anderson, “Effective Grading: A tool for learning and assessment.”

]]> By: Mel Chua http://mihaelasabin.net/2010/08/24/teaching-open-source-learning-objectives/#comment-6 Tue, 31 Aug 2010 13:09:37 +0000 http://mihaelasabin.net/?p=221#comment-6 Ooo. Learning objectives are necessary but not sufficient, basically? I’ve seen a worksheet that makes you think of all those three things at the same time – if I’m reading your blog post correctly, you need:

1) What students should learn (learning objective)

2) What experiences we’re designing in order to help them learn it / how they’re going to learn it (pedagogies and interventions)

3) How we’re going to tell whether the experiences we designed actually caused students to learn what we wanted them to learn (assessment)

So in the case of the textbook, #2 would be the textbook, and in the case of the POSSE curriculum, #2 would be the POSSE workshop itself. And #3 for both would be… well, I’m not actually sure yet. Do you know of any good resources for people trying to learn how to think about assessment design?

Thanks for these thoughts! One of the most valuable things I personally get out of a POSSE is being able to eavesdrop on profs talking with each other about course design and teaching – it’s just exposure to this very different way of thinking, seeing different ways of thinking about teaching, getting a sense of how that process goes and how that conversations happens among people who know how to do it, that helps me figure out the academic context you all know so well. In a sense, it’s a week of immersion for you folks in open source, but it’s also a week of immersion for us in teaching-centric academia, so it’s a nice bidirectional swap.

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