I totally agree that soft skills and ethical values is something that we should encourage students to think about. Hopefully as educators, we can influence our students to think of the consequences of their decisions both now and in the future.
In this module, I learned that as an instructor, our learning objectives must clearly state what we would like the student to learn. Then, we would assess students' learning based on the objectives.
There are many different types of assessments that can be used to measures students' comprehension of material. Active learners are integral in making coursework more compelling. Keeping students engaged is crucial.
Getting to know the best way the students can learn and still remain focus then putting it all together at one that way we can keep everybody's attention with a mix of different methods.
I learned that active learning keeps the students engaged in the learning and also just how important assessment is.
I like the idea of using CAT activities, not only at the beginning or end of class, but also mid class to regain focus. I also liked the example of whether "what" or "how" we teach is more important - like scissor blades, both are so important that they can't work without each other.
The difficulty in grading ethical decision making based on commonly found ethical dilemmas.
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I appreciated the focus on CATs as well and would like to encourage their use to assess knowledge anonymously and informally within class sessions.
The use of assessments across a variety of learning styles and deliveries ensures a broader analysis ability for the instructor in their effectiveness in information delivery.
Assessment is a really good tool to evaluate your students and how they are learning.
CAT activities and the ways of learning and applying new information
General education and soft skills are just as important to success in active learning and career development as continuing education and instructional seminars
Formative and Summative Assessments are key to keeping the learning process on track, over both the short-term and long-term. Instructors must align these assessments with the learning objectives.
Great info on how to evaluate different students.
Instructors have a professional obligation to assess their students with methods that enable the students to reflect the knowledge and skills they have acquired during their instruction.
Continuous assessment enables the best learning outcomes for students. Interesting the use of "post-Enron days" in the ethics portion. My guess is for the majority of people these days taking this online course won't know much about Enron.
Active learning, status checks
Assessments and critical teaching is a big part of educational process
When evaluating, it is very important to try to be positive, assessments will vary, as does ones thought process. Always be mindful to determine the appropriate assessment.
Proper assessment is sooooo important. Most assessments are memorization-centric.
