Effective Learner Support in ODL_SVGCC

Unit

Title

Assessment

Rubric

Score

Hours

1.

Towards an understanding of integrated learner support for ODL

Unit 1 Quiz

Each quiz item is 1 %

10%

15mins

2.

Learner Support within the course

Unit 2 Quiz

Each quiz item is 1%

10%

15mins

3.

Building community of learners

Group work Assignment 3: Case study: You will be assigned to groups of about 4-5, at least one member must be faculty. You will collaboratively work on the task below.

Choose a topic/lesson from a course that you are tutoring in an ODL program. Redesign its activities to demonstrate how you will implement any 3 of the following:

1. Social presence.
2. Cognitive presence.
3. Identity.
4. Teaching presence.
5. and creative presence.

Unit 3 Quiz

·        Demonstrate an understanding of community of learners (3%)

·         Demonstrate how a learning activity can be evidence of building community of learners.  Use at least 2 learning activities (10%)

·         Clarity and coherence of expression will improve your scores (3%)  

Constructive comment on another participant's work on how the activities chosen builds community of learners or not. (4%)

Each quiz item 1%

20 %

10%

1hr

15mins

4.

Learner support and institutional context

A graded Discussion Forum 10

 Post a detailed plan intended to improve or innovate a change that will impact learner support in your docket, in your institution.

Unit 4 Quiz

·         Come up with an innovation or an improvement on learner support in your docket. (2%)

·         Demonstrate that learner support can be embedded in the administrative structure of an institution. (4%)

·         Demonstrate how improvements or innovation in learner support may impact policy change or change in practice- standard operating procedures etc. (4%)

Each quiz item is 1%

10%

10%

20mins

5.

Quality Assurance and learner support

Written assignment

You are expected to carry out an assessment of the quality of learner support services in your institution using a standard tool that you have been provided with, but which you must adapt to your context.

You will submit a not more than 1000-word report.

 Give a brief background of your institution with regard to ODeL and specifically learner support. (5%)

Evidence of the use of at least 4 PI from the QA toolkit. (5%)

Demonstrate that the PI is relevant for your context. (5%)

Score performance using the 5-point scale (5%)

Make recommendations for improvement of LSS based on your findings. (10%)

Coherence and clarity of your report will be important to your overall grade

30%

1 hr