[Using Sakai] SAKAI course design assessment

[Kenneth Romeo]

This is not quite what you are looking for, but hopefully it will give you 
some ideas:

Over the last few years, I have piloted and implemented a Sakai tutorial for 
language instructors here at the Stanford Language Center.  Starting last 
summer our director made it a requirement for new and current instructors, 
and has included it in her pedagogy course.  You can find the instructions 
at (http://goo.gl/McofJ).  I have a blogpost about the experience at 
(http://goo.gl/lcUGU)

It is important to keep in mind that the tutorial reflects our teaching 
philosophy, which is about *doing* and not just about *knowing*.  Therefore, 
it can’t just be done with something like multiple choice questions.  It 
really does require someone going in to make sure the participants have 
shown that they can do what needs to be done.  This process is quite 
time-consuming: I need to check the tests and quizzes that they create and 
look at their uploaded files.  At the moment, I am trying to re-work it so 
that they upload screenshots of their work, to make it easier to review 
large numbers of submissions quickly, but that will also require teaching 
instructors how to make decent screenshots.  I should also note that I have 
a scaled-down version out on rSmart (http://goo.gl/CDmEs) that I plan to 
pilot with a Fulbright Language Teaching Assistant orientation that we are 
running here in a couple weeks.

Ken Romeo, PhD

[http://kenro.web.stanford.edu]

Academic Technology Specialist [http://ats.stanford.edu]

Stanford Language Center [http://language.stanford.edu]







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[mailto:sakai-user-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] On Behalf Of Fatima 
Rahiman
Sent: Friday, July 27, 2012 5:50 AM
To: sakai-user at collab.sakaiproject.org
Subject: [Using Sakai] SAKAI course design assessment



Hi All

Does anyone have an assessment / quiz which tests  SAKAI instructor 
abilities please? We’d like to  have academics complete some kind of 
assessment  after completing the training to ensure that they know how to 
find their way around SAKAI .WE do have an evaluation form which  lecturers 
complete  after attending a training session  indicate and where they can 
indicate  if  the training met their needs or not but we would like to 
assess their actual  understanding as we’re finding some courses with really 
poor design. I am aware of the http://openedpractices.org site but can’t 
seem to find anything there…unless I’m not  looking in the right place.Any 
assistance will be much appreciated.

Ta








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