Riverland FlexPace: Mastery-based Learning Deb McManimon, Ph.D. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Riverland FlexPace™: Mastery-based Learning Deb McManimon, Ph.D. J.C. Turner, Ph.D.

Overview • Competency Overview • Transfer Learning Objectives/Course Outcomes • Using the Competency Tool • Questions • Wrap up

Competency Overview

What Are Competencies • Competencies • Enables assessment of outcomes • Tracks information about the knowledge, skills and abilities acquired at course, department, or institutional level • Provides visible structural organization for • Students • Faculty • Administration • Outside Accrediting bodies

Why Use Competencies • Setting up competencies allows for better alignment and assessment • Data is important for driving decision-making • Data is needed for accreditation in many programs • D2L Brightspace tools • Help automate process • Proper set up is needed

Structural Organization • Prior to Competency Set-up • Create hierarchy of structure • Institutional Outcomes • Program Outcomes • Learning Objectives • Course Outcomes • Activities • Business department used Excel to allow for filtering

Considerations Prior to Set-up • Considerations for Faculty/Department • Will students need to meet all objectives/outcomes to be competent? • What happens if student doesn’t meet competency? • Will you use non-graded items in your competency structure? • Review Competencies Set up with D2L Admin • Review set up with Admin • Determine if higher level competencies should be created

D2L Admin Level Set-up • Enable Competencies & Template permissions • Create top level Competencies • Institutional and Program Level • Edit Competency Structure • Add Parents and Children • Faculty will attach activities to Learning Objectives • Questions – contact J.C. Turner

NOTE: Higher Level Set-up Admin • Competencies • Admin level • Institutional Outcomes • Used across multiple departments • Program Outcomes • Used across multiple courses with department • (can ask JC for further details) • Course level • Learning Objectives • Learning Outcomes • Activities

Additional Terms • Learning Objective (What is assessed?) • Represent items/skills needed to acquire competency • Should be a statement that is directly measurable • Activities (How is it assessed?) • Used to evaluate completion of learning objectives • Can be quiz, survey, assignment, discussion, content, grade, or manual item

Program or Institutional Competencies

Competency View Instructor

Competency View Student

Transfer Learning Objectives and Course Outcomes

Your Homework • Using Your Own Course and Homework • Master Course Outline (MCO) • Objectives • Outcomes • Activities • Grades

Your Course • Using Your Own Course and Homework • Master Course Outline (MCO) • Outcomes • Objectives • Activities • Grades

Review MCO (sample) Performance Measure

Create Master Grid (sample)

Benefits of Competencies • Alignment • Thresholds • Views in tool • Structural view • Results view • Faculty can see user progress • Students can see their progress • Within a course • Across a program

Alignment

Thresholds of Measurement

Program or Institutional Competencies

Faculty View within Competencies

View Results- Competency Tool

Faculty View within Course • Edit Course • View User Progress • Snapshot of learner progress through objectives

Student View

Using the Competency Tool

Step 1 – Copy MCO to Template Copy and Paste/Enter Program and course information into template ***We did this course by course***

Step 2 –Print Graded Items Print graded items list from course

Step 3 –Enter Graded Items Enter graded items from course into Performance Measure

Step 4-Transfer to Grid (optional)

Login to your course for working on competencies Course Admin/Assessment/Competencies

Step 5–Create New Learning Objective (LO) Tool-Edit Course- Competency- New Learning Objective Name type of competency Institutional, Program, etc. with specifics (ex IO1, BUSA PO1, BUSA1050 LO1, BUSA1050 CO1

Step 5a-New Learning Objective Copy and paste from spreadsheet/document

Step 6 – Edit Structure Choose the competency, then Edit Structure

Step 6a- Add Child or Parent

Step 6b – Add Child Add Child (left image)-Then Add child to this competency (right image). You can add Children to Parents or Parents to Children

Step 6c- New Learning Objective (LO) Add Child – New Learning Objective

Step 6d- Complete LO

Step 7-Create New Course Outcome (CO) Choose the Learning Objective, Structure, then Edit Structure

Step 7a- Add Child/Copy from Grid Choose Add Child, Copy from Grid, Enforced Method, Ready for Evaluation To add a sub level- choose Learning Objective from within a Learning Objective (we call Course Outcome)

View Structure

Step 8- Add Activity Choose Course Outcome, Structure, edit Structure, Incorporate Activities

Step 8a- Select Activity • Choose activity • Example • Grades Activity • Quiz 1

Step 8b- Grades Activity • Select item • Assess Objective • Numeric • Required • Overall Threshold • Add

View Activities Edit Structure View Hierarchy View

Summary

Competency Structure • Facilitates alignment • Institutional, Program, Course • Allows students to see course at a glance • Provides curriculum mapping • Defines measurable outcomes

Student View

Curriculum Map

Competency-Based Delivery • Structure will be in place • Set up now eases transition • Allows students to share areas of competency • Allows faculty to see areas for improvement

Analytics • Data can be manually extracted • We currently use for accreditation • Analytics is now available as an add on package • Data will be in D2L for future analyzing

Questions?