Wow! This institution has targeted advising as its Quality Enhancement Plan. What an opportunity to improve the learners’ experience. I am so excited to have stumbled across this exciting resource.
Category: Outcomes
Learning Outcomes
Wow! What a resource! Module 3 – Learning Outcomes
And this one! Appendix 2: OCAV’s Undergraduate and Graduate Degree Level Expectations
Where it all began
My innovation plan was born out of a desperate desire to increase student motivation to seek the information they need to be successful in their academic pursuits. When I began the ADL Program, I was advising for a few online graduate Master of Education programs (including this one). I kept having students miss critical deadlines and requirements due to their lack of information. It was not that they did not have access to the information that was provided, published, and available; instead, it was a lack of inquisitivism that prevented them from even beginning the search for understanding.
Revisiting the process and learning I undertook with the facilitation of Dr. Kelly Grogan while creating significant learning environments, I keep looking for ways to align outcomes. What are my desired outcomes? I want learners to be autonomously motivated.
In my typical form and fashion, I begin my studies by reviewing, reading, and note-taking through the resources provided in my program coursework. Inevitably, I search for Learner’s Mindset discussions on the topic and/or YouTube videos on key concepts, terms, or goals.
This source resonates with me and can serve as a reminder to all of us as we endeavor to create significant learning environments.
Jon Stolk recommends that we remember to utilize the following:
- Real Tools (physical need)
- Real Choice (thinking, reasoning, decision-making)
- Real Trust (emotions/feelings)
He continues by stating that “when students feel these things (choice, trust, acceptance, encouragement, care, dialogue), there are extremely strong positive correlations to a bunch of the stuff we say we care about (self-efficacy, metacognition, active help-seeking, creativity, task value, peer learning, and intrinsic motivation)” (TEDx Talks, 2015).
Therefore, I intend to keep these in mind as I prepare to outline my plans for an online learning course’s instructional design. I keep hearing Dr. Harapnuik telling me to focus on the learning.
Reference
TEDx Talks. (2015, November 5). Creating autonomy-supportive learning environments | Jon Stolk | TEDxSMU [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxlFzrfdqa4
Design – from the starting line
Backward design…
How extremely humbling to realize that I am finally at the point where I am creating my innovation idea. Everything I have been learning through the program on how to help develop my team through professional learning and ways that these resources can contribute to significant learning environments both equip me with resources and leave me overwhelmed at the reality of this authentic opportunity. I really do have an opportunity to revolutionize advising within my organization.
Now, I get to build my course, my ubiquitous resource, my example of revolutionary advising for learner and advisor alike.
If you are taking EDLD 5318 Instructional Design Online Learning in the ADL Program – How are you feeling in your learning process?
I, for one am still stuck at the starting line – “perfection is the enemy of the good” – has me not even having done my introduction discussion, since we were invited to create that utilizing video resources, I think I want to really plan out my introduction so that it can become a piece of the final product at the conclusion of this course. As a result, I’m thinking that the normally simple piece of each course requires more thought, time, and reflection as a piece of this course’s learning puzzle.
I am going to reach out to my learning community and see if we can plan a collaborative session to brainstorm and discuss our plans. I will share my process as I work through this first Instructional Design assignment in hopes of helping you through your learning process too.
The Advisor That Cares 