Learning and Teaching at CSU

Work on one of your subject Interact site(s) or an Interact project site using appropriate educational technologies. If you are working on a project site consider your students as those who you provide professional development or support to.

You may wish to collaborate with your educational designer and colleagues including the ICT-Enabled Learning Community of Practice (ICTCOP) that congregates in http://www.yammer.com, and study the affordances of educational technologies at CSU.

It is recommended that you complete the modules on student diversity and evaluation.

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Task

You are required to design a:

1. Interact subject site appropriate for your student cohort, if you are an academic staff member; or
2. Interact project site appropriate for your student cohort, if you are a professional staff member (Consider your students as those who you provide professional development or support to);
   

that uses educational technology to support learning and teaching strategies.

Prior to designing your Interact site you should    

• Collaborate with your educational designer, colleagues and engage with the Information & Communication technology-enabled Learning Community of Practice (ICTCOP).
• Study the affordances of educational technologies at CSU including communication strategies (available through the CSU Learning & Teaching website).
• Base your learning and teaching strategies on any of the three core items in the subject experience survey (General or Workplace Learning (WPL), whichever is appropriate).

Please study the material in the corresponding Modules as you prepare for this assessment item.

Assessable components:

A concise and coherent written reflection (maximum of 1500 words) on the choice of learning and teaching strategies and educational technologies. Describe why you regard these as the most appropriate and effective to ensure a positive student feedback for any three of the core items of the Subject Experience Survey (general or WPL depending on the subject you teach).

Include in your written reflections how the affordances of these technologies support your teaching and communication strategies.

Use screenshots of educational technologies from the Interact site wherever possible.

Refer back to the diversity of your student cohort, where possible.

Include reflections on your design.

Rationale

This task provides students with the opportunity to demonstrate their achievement of the following learning objectives: 

• Describe the characteristics and educational needs of the student cohorts they teach and identify appropriate learning outcomes and learning and teaching strategies;
• Engage students in learning through the application of a range of CSU's educational technologies;
• Identify the conceptions of teaching underlying the CSU Subject Experience Survey and demonstrate how these are being applied to assure quality learning and teaching; and
• Collaborate with educational professional staff to enhance subject and course design.

Marking criteria

The criteria on which the task will be assessed will be:

• Creation of an Interact site with inclusion of screenshots to support reflections (45%);
• Clarity of analysis as to why you have selected and applied these learning and teaching strategies in the Interact site (15%);
• Appropriate and meaningful reference in your justification for selecting the learning and teaching strategies - to the learning outcomes of your subject, the selected core items of the subject experience survey and the diversity of your student cohort (20%);
• Coherence of rationale for using the selected educational technologies in the Interact site (10%); and
• Alignment in your rationale with the affordances of these technologies and the diversity of your student cohort (10%).

(NB. This subject is graded SY/US. Percentage figures are indicative of the importance of each assessment criteria and do not refer to an allocation of marks.)

Standards

Your assignment will be graded according to the following standards:

SY

The analysis of why you have selected these learning and teaching strategies is clear. The references in your justification to the learning outcomes of your subject, the selected core items of the subject experience survey and the diversity of your student cohort are appropriate and coherent. You have a coherent rationale for using the selected educational technologies and have provided screenshots of your Interact site. The rationale aligns well with the affordances of these technologies and the diversity of your student cohort.

US

The analysis of why you have selected these learning and teaching strategies is vague or confusing. The references in your justification to the learning outcomes of your subject, the selected core items of the subject experience survey and the diversity of your student cohort are not appropriate and not coherent. The rationale for using the selected educational technologies is not coherent and no evidence of the creation of an Interact site has been included. The rationale for using the selected educational technologies does not align well with the affordances of these technologies and the diversity of your student cohort.

 

The marking rubric used to grade this assessment will be provided in the resources section of the EEL416 Interact site.

Presentation

This assignment should be a maximum of 1500 words, preferably 11 or 12 point font size.

The APA referencing style should be used.

Use illustrations through images such as screenshots of the use of educational technologies in the Interact site wherever possible.

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