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Real-world, Technology-based, Activity-driven,
Question-based College Curriculums Please
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| I. | Computers, student activities, and real world requirements would be central to the students learning experience. | ||
| II. | Gains from this more efficient system would be shared by students, faculty, and administration | ||
| A. | Pedagogical requirements for an undergraduate degree would be limited to that useful to someone with just an undergraduate degree | ||
| 1. | Data on usefulness of pedagogical material would be collected from alumni with just an undergraduate degree keeping out expensive unneeded materials | ||
| 2. | Activities now considered extracurricular, might become more structured and done for credit, especially for non-technical majors. | ||
| B. | Free Internet materials would replace textbooks and lectures. | ||
| 1. | Faculty could put their own notes on the Internet or choose from many course notes already on the Internet. This was written before videos and flipped classrooms. | ||
| 2. | Reading assignments would be taken from the Internet. | ||
| 3. | Class time would decrease from 150 minutes per week to 50 minutes per week | ||
| C. | Extra help sessions would be held between formal classes for students needing assistance. | ||
| 1. | Multiple class sections would be combined. | ||
| 2, | Sessions would be managed by student assistants receiving life experience credit. | ||
| D. | Grades would be activity centered. | ||
| 1. | Multiple choice tests would come to an end. | ||
| 2. | Grades would be based on research papers, individual projects, group projects, case analysis, essay questions, math problems, oral presentations. | ||
| 3. | Students would be encouraged to make up their own test questions and projects. | ||
| 4 | Working with other people would be encouraged. | ||
| 5. | Amount of work required, a completion time, and expected grade would be negotiated. | ||
| 6.Faculty would review student
creatd material in process and if
appropriate, meet with the student or group of students |
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| E. | Teachers, as managing consultants, would have varied responsibilities. | ||
| a. | Keeping Internet pedagogical materials relevant to the real world., especially as it pertains to individual student needs | ||
| b. | Managing teaching assistants | ||
| c. | Explaining difficult concepts to students and teaching assistants | ||
| d. | Grading which would be a continuing process. | ||
| f. | Economics gains from fewer contact hours would be split between the faculty and the college. | ||
| F. | The improved learning atmosphere would stop many students from taking long weekends. | ||
| III. | Some perceived problems. | ||
| A. | Some faculty would object. | ||
| 1. | Fine, if they want to meet three times a week, so be it. | ||
| 2. | Faculty member could use their sabbatical to develop materials. | ||
| 3 | Implementation should be slow, probably starting with upper level courses or courses using free Internet materials. | ||
| 4. | Eventually all would agree that students learn much more in this relaxed, dynamic community. | ||
| B. | Students would have too much free time. | ||
| 1. | Keep students current by starting each formal class with a 5-minutes oral upgraded quiz covering the day's Internet notes would be help keep students current | ||
| 2. | Both Individual and group projects would be required as much time as students desire to expend. | ||
| 3. | Better students would have too much free time. | ||
| a. Some would work. | |||
| b. Some would receive credit for school activities. | |||
| c. Some would do what they do now. | |||
| C. | Some students would be unhappy | ||
| 1. | Students successful with the current system of memorization and working alone would not be happy. | ||
| 2. | Students who do not like to work with groups would not have to, though this would be mentioned in a subjective grade report. | ||
| IV | Personal Observations | ||
| A. | I used the system was used to some extent for five years around the turn of the decade. | ||
| 1. | Subjects taught were Accounting I and II, Economics I and II, and Statistics | ||
| 2. | Students were supplied all class notes | ||
| 3. | Better students came to class less than 1/3 of the time. | ||
| B. | Results | ||
| 1. | Better students in Accounting and Statistics learned more in less time with much less work, mainly because I didn't have the stamina to keep up with my notes. | ||
| 2. | Average students learned about an amount equal to what they usually learn. | ||
| 3. | Economics was the most difficult, parley because the my notes and Internet materials were not that sophisticated. I have spent the last 5 years making them better. | ||
| 4. | Quick Notes Course Outlines were developed over twelve years and were used in this project. | ||
| V | Examples | ||
| A. | http://realteachingmeansreallearning.blogspot.com/2011/05/call-of-duty-and-calculus.html | ||
| e-mail Walter with examples | |||
See Change Education and Education Libraries for some of my other ramblings on education.
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