Final Course Reflection #7.

What are your suggestions for improving the design of this course?

First, present more information and guidelines for collaboration. Maybe that could be the coursework for the first week. Let everyone research or read articles about collaboration and respond to a prompt or question in the discussion area. If everyone has input they might "buy into" it more and have a chance to better understand the expectations. Once the roles are clear let the class members choose roles for the different chapters but require that everyone experience each role once. Think of an alternate activity to replace the quizzes or at least revise the roles a little so the editor isn't using a scoring guide he/she didn't create. Maybe there should just be a general guide for everyone to use.

I think all the topics we covered were important but I would have liked to have spent more time on the technology topics in chapter 8. I wasn't very familiar with some of them so I would have liked more information or activities with them. Finally, I think the course needs to incorporate more constructivist methods than just the wiki writing. The wiki writing was a great learning experience but I think it would have been even more beneficial to participate in or plan activities involving other constructivist methods.