43% Completion - Take that average MOOC completion stat.

Julian Walker

Well, as my first dive into facilitating an online course that I created goes, I don't think it went too badly at all :D

30 Students signed up to my 'e-Portfolios for the reflective learner' course which ran in our Mahara system. 13 of which ended up completing the course and submitting a brilliant array of portfolios to the course group.

The course it self was split into the following areas or pages:
  • Introduction
  • Task 1 - Introduction to reflective learning
  • Task 2 - Reflect on VARK results
  • Task 3 - Identify on a subject of your choice and reflect on it
  • Task 4 - Create a plan
  • Task 5 - Create an e-portfolio page
  • Task 6 - Reflect on using Mahara - Submission
  • Where next?
You can get the gist of the course structure above, pulling the students into the course with the why's and selling of e-portfolios and reflective practice in general before light touch tasks getting the students to actually try out these tools. At the end of the course, the students were made aware of other resources which were available to them to further their knowledge of being reflective or e-portfolios in general.

I personally really enjoyed creating this course and supporting the students through it and I'm eager to run it again or another maybe larger course in the near future. I also got a chance to put some of the elements I had learn't from the Feedback and Feedforward workshop into action giving individual feedback to students!

I think my next course might be run over a live Google Hangouts on Air.. which could have some quite horrendous outcomes :)


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