Slides from presentation at CPTSC

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Building From Where Students Are At:
Critical Digital Program Development
Ed Nagelhout
Elisa Cogbill-Seiders
Denise Tillery
University of Nevada, Las Vegas

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Goals for Our Panel Today
Describe our collaborative efforts to
1. create and maintain flexible curricula
2. gather, develop, and store relevant course-
specific and program-wide assets and open
educational resources
3. more accurately collect, analyze, measure,
and report the data of our learners in our
various courses

3. • How can we best align
course design, project
design, student
competencies, student
outcomes, and program
assessment?
PW Minor: Guiding Question
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4. #1: A course is a conversation, not a static
reservoir or receptacle for content.
#2: Education cannot be compulsory. The work
of learning starts with agency.
#3: Best practices are snake oil.
#4: Outcomes should give way to epiphanies.
#5: Learning should not be structured to conform
to assessment mechanisms.
#6: In education, we rise and fall together.
What Critical Digital Pedagogy Can Teach the MOOC: 6 Theses
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Sean Michael Morris
and Jesse Stommel
http://www.hybridpedagogy.com/journal/freire-
made-mooc-open-education-resistance/

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Flexible Course and Project Design
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6. • How can we best account
for different students with
different skill sets and
different experiences
when they enter the
program, and, more
importantly, when they
enter each course?
Guiding Question
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Projects
Program Design
DeliverablesResources Software/Apps
StudentDesign
Project Process
Ed Nagelhout

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Project Process
Ed Nagelhout

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CollaborativeFor Learning &
For Deliverables
On Learning &
On Deliverables
Individual
Project Process
Planning
Drafting
Revising
Editing
Reflecting
Deliverables
Resources
Software/Apps
Evaluation
Criteria
Individual
Deliverables are only
items evaluated
Peer Review
Teacher Review
Ed Nagelhout
Evaluation

10. Flexible Course and Project Design
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Projects
(Criteria)
Courses
(Outcomes)
Program
(Goals)

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Developing Course and Program Assets

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Guiding Question
• How can we develop
open educational
resources that are
valid, accessible, span
the program, and
work in multiple
courses?

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Developing Course and Program Assets
Summer Research Project
1. Determine what kinds of open
access materials were available in
professional, technical, and
scientific writing
2. Create an initial catalog,
organizing the materials in a way
that would allow us to evaluate
the materials as quickly and as
efficiently as possible

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Developing Course and Program Assets
Books / Textbooks
 Open Textbook Library
 Wikibooks
 Google Books
 OpenStax College
 LibriVox
 Scholarpedia
 Project Gutenberg
 Open Research Online
opensource.com

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Developing Course and Program Assets
Images
 Flickr
 Multicolor Search Lab
 Getty Search Gateway
 Pixabay
 World Digital Library
Multimedia
 Jamendo
 Wikimedia Commons
 YouTube
 HippoCampus
opensource.com

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Developing Course and Program Assets
Coursework/Curricula
 The Saylor Academy
 OER Commons
 The Orange Grove
 iTunes U
Multi-purpose
 Digital Public Library of America
 Public Domain Review
 Merlot II
 Internet Archive
opensource.com

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Interconnected Program and Course
Assessment Strategies
Yaph

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Guiding Question
• What are common
pathways to assessing
specific skills program-
wide when students
start from multiple
points of entry?

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What do we look for when we want to evaluate?
Course and Program Assessment Strategies
Context
Artifact
SubstanceProcess
Habits of
mind

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Course and Program Assessment Strategies
Context
Artifact
SubstanceProcess
Habits of
mind
Student’s
Written
Reflection
Project
Planning

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Developing Course and Program Assets
• How can we develop
heuristics that we can
use to guide assessment
in the classroom as well
as overall program
assessment?

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Questions to Start the Conversation
1. What happens when we assign a collaborative project
where one student has taken three required courses, one
student has taken one required course and two electives,
one student has taken one elective, and one student has
taken no other courses in the minor?
2. How do we develop assets that are accessible for
undergraduates at all skill levels? Can they improve student
agency? teacher agency?
3. How can we negotiate the tension between achieving
program goals for student-directed learning with some
students’ desires to have courses follow traditional teacher-
directed pedagogies?

23. If you have any questions
/ comments / concerns,
please contact us by
email:
denise.tillery@unlv.edu
ed.nagelhout@unlv.edu
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