Course
Title: Strategies for Empowering
Students to Become Active, Responsible Learners (Accompanies On Course I Workshop)
Offered Fall Semester only.
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REGISTER CLICK HERE.
Course
Description: This course focuses on
practical strategies for empowering college students to become active,
responsible learners. Participants in this course will learn a variety of highly
effective learner-centered methods that not only appeal to various learning
styles but also motivate students to take charge of their own learning. These
methods are drawn from best practices in psychology, education, business,
sports, and personal effectiveness. Additionally, participants learn to
apply the seven domains of influence by which educators can guide students to
achieve their greatest potential. This course is appropriate for college faculty
from all academic disciplines, instructors of college success courses,
counselors, student affairs staff, TRIO personnel, and administrators seeking
strategies for improving retention and student success rates. (3 Credits)
Course Objectives:
Students in this course will…
A.
Learn and implement proven strategies for empowering students to become active,
responsible learners who are self-motivated, self-managing, interdependent,
self-aware, emotionally intelligent, and self-confident.
B.
Learn and implement effective learner-centered strategies. These strategies will
fall into one or more of the seven domains available to educators for
influencing the stated and collateral learning of students: 1) College and
Classroom activities, 2) Assignments, 3) Evaluation and Feedback, 4) Modeling,
5) Environment, 6) Policies and Rules, and 7) Programs and Curricula.
C.
Engage in a discussion-board conversation with classmates, exploring and
evaluating the effectiveness of their implementation of learner-centered
educational practices for empowering college students.
D.
Become part of an international community of many thousands of college educators
(via the On Course Internet Newsletter) exchanging best practices for
improving academic success and student retention.
E.
Publish for an international community of many thousands of college educators
(via the On Course Internet Newsletter) their experiences and outcomes of
implementing learner-centered educational strategies for empowering students.
Course
Requirements: Successful students in
this course must…
1.
Attend an On Course I Workshop in its entirety (21 hours). Dates
and locations for all On Course Workshops are posted at http://www.OnCourseWorkshop.com.
2.
Read the text On Course: Strategies for Creating Success in College
and in Life (most recent edition.) by Skip Downing and the accompanying
facilitator’s manual (Houghton Mifflin). Complete Journal Entries 1-10 and
submit them to the instructor.
3.
Implement for students at their college two learning-centered
strategies presented at the On Course Workshop or found in the facilitator’s
manual for the text On Course, write separate Project Reports about the
implementation of each strategy, and submit each report separately to the course
instructor for posting on Blackboard.
4.
Implement for students at their college one learning-centered
strategy that they design or that they learn from a source other than the On
Course Workshop, book, or facilitator’s manual; write a description of the
strategy and its implementation; and submit the Project Report to the course
instructor for posting on Blackboard.
5.
Give helpful feedback about all Project Reports posted on the Blackboard by
their Project Team members.
Course
Assignments:
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Possible
Points
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Course
Assignments
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Attend
an On Course I Workshop in its entirety (21 hours). Recommended:
Attend the 3-hour optional session.
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Write
and submit to the course instructor a Schedule of Personally Chosen
Deadlines for the Ten Journal Entries and Three Project Reports. All
assignments must be completed by the end of the semester. Follow the
guidelines provided by the instructor.
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Write
and post on your Blackboard home page a Personal Introduction.
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100
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Write
and post on the Blackboard DISCUSSION BOARD Feedback regarding
Project Reports posted by your Project Team members. Follow the guidelines
provided by the instructor.
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100
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Write
and submit to the instructor Journals 1-10 from On Course:
Strategies for Success in College and in Life (2 points each).
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100
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Write
and submit to the instructor a Project Report* on the outcomes,
experiences, and evaluation of implementing one On Course strategy. Follow
the format provided by the instructor.
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100
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Write and submit to the instructor a second Project
Report* on the outcomes, experiences, and evaluation of implementing a
second On Course strategy. Follow the format provided by the instructor.
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100
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Write
and submit to the instructor a third Project Report* on the
outcomes, experiences, and evaluation of implementing a learning-centered
strategy for empowering students to become active, responsible learners
from a source other than the On Course workshop, book, or facilitator’s
manual. See the bibliography below for possible sources of strategies or
design your own. Follow the format provided by the instructor.
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500
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Total
Possible Points
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*The
instructor will publish appropriate student project reports as articles in the On
Course Newsletter, a free Internet publication read by many thousands of
college and university educators.
Grades:
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A
– 450-500 points
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B
– 400-449 points
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C
– 350-399 points (no credit)
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D
– not given
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F
– 0-349 (Course Requirements Not Met)
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Required
Text:
Downing,
Skip. On Course: Strategies for Success in College and in Life. (most recent
ed). Houghton Mifflin.
Course
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