Low-stakes testing
Overview
Low-stakes testing involves the frequent use of evaluation instruments that have little impact on a student's course grade. Two examples of low-stakes testing include:
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Learning styles
Overview
For many years, there has been a lot of discussion about the need to address a variety of student learning styles. Many sets of possible descriptors are used. A recent literature review by Pasher et. al (2008), however, suggests that learning styles do not really matter. It is, of course, important that principles of universal design be used to meet the needs of students with disabilities.
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Just-in-Time Teaching
Flipping the Classroom
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Concept Mapping
Overview:
Concept Mapping is an alternative to using an outline format in academic studies. Instead of a linear state, concept maps are graphical tools that help to organize and represent knowledge. Concepts are outlined in boxes of some sort and associated with other concepts with linking lines. Words are written on the "linking line," which specify the relationship between the concept. This way of organizing information allows for each concept to associated with many other concepts.
Creating Concept Maps in Google Docs:
Active learning
Overview
Team Based Learning
Support for COIL class development
Faculty developing new COIL classes are eligible for a $2850 development stipend and possible travel support to meet with their foreign partner. Assistance throughout the course development project will be provided by a SUNY-Oswego instructional designer, representatives of the SUNY-COIL center, and CELT.
Faculty interested in developing COIL classes should contact John Kane at john.kane@oswego.edu for more information.
COIL class development resources
Asynchronous collaboration tools:
Blackboard -The instructional designer(s) working with COIL classes can create a separate Blackboard course shell for collaborative activities.
Canvas - Canvas provides a very easy-to-use and powerful modern course management system. Instructurs may create free accounts to develop a course site for shared collborative activities.
SUNY-Oswego COIL class descriptions
HCI 530 / Eng 595 -Transhumanism - In this class, first offered in the spring semester of 2013, Damian Schofield and Pat Murphy collaborate with Lisa ? from Australia in offering a class that exams the relationship between humans and machines. As part of this course, students will learn about writing plays and programming robots.