Five principles Document

The "Five Principles of Successful Course Redesign" seves as a sound reminder and a source of good new informationabout the benefits of building pedagogocally sound online courses, both to improve the quality of teaching and to reduce costs in several ways. The parts that I have found to be most pertinent as we are piloting and revising the 0111 lab course have been the redesign of the entire course, which we have standardized and are now revising again, azs this has made the course more workable and more sound, as well as more easy for the students to follow; the component of encouraging active learning and the asessment and feeedback component, which go hand in had as the students do quite a bit of work and peer reviewing on line and it is easy as an instructor to catch poorly done work as it comes in, write a corrective suggestion to the student privately, and still give the student a chance to revise the work correctly and resubmit it in order to be successful with the assignment. I'm really enjoying the academy, and one of my favirite things about the way that it is run is that you use your own instructors as team to teach various aspects of the workshops, which reenforces the very way that we are expected to formualte our classes and also assures that we are all on the same page and are exposed to your staff in a way that makes us much more likely to come to you out of class later when we experience difficulties or as in my case so often , just don't quite get it yet and need further instruction. you force os to think and work successfully and independently, yet you all provide a great snense of comfort and security as we learn what is somewhat complicated material for those of us that are less tech savy. Also, working with the colleagues fromthe English department is also really fun as they are as nutty as we are.-Terri