Attendance and participation:
This is a seminar and attendance, promptness and participation are expected and appreciated. I ask that you read assignments prior to class and come prepared to share your opinions of and reactions to them.
As elsewhere noted, each student team partners with a single client. But because it's important to broaden your exposure, you'll also be asked to share your field-work experience--without whining about the effort, divulging organizational secrets, or speaking disparagingly about the people with whom you're working. Simply put, this wider "discussion" necessitates recognition of a major professional responsibility-- respect for confidentiality within the seminar and within the client-developer relationship.
Client-developer relationship:
Each student team will be expected to meet client needs and to:
- serve in the role of external consultant to address a challenge presented by the client, establish a contract, and build a productive professional relationship with the organization your cleint represents.
- conduct fieldwork that provides data for planning, development, or evaluation.
- report on the results of your fieldwork, with special emphasis on how your effort met specific client needs.
- determine practices, specifications and strategies based on the front end, what you know about great instructional design and constraints presented by context.
- use the literature and class materials to enlighten decisions regarding practices, specifications and strategies.
- develop lessons, storyboards, materials, scripts, job aids, and/or data gathering tools (basically--whatever the situation calls for).
- make data-based recommendations for other support interventions.
- write a brief and cogent evaluation plan for your project.
- report on how planning, research and theory have enlightened your efforts on behalf of your client (detail "lessons learned").
- provide your client with the ID Consultant Evaluation form -- and make certain that he or she completes/submits it out prior to the last class of the semester.
- complete a brief series of Team Reports--that help me understand group dynamics and the specific role(s) you've played as the semester unfolded.
Instructional/informational product:
As the end of the semester approaches, we'll determine the most feasible way for you to submit a "copy" of what you've designed or developed for the client. The client organization should bear the cost of duplication and materials for the project and for copies associated with the effort; each team's contract must reflect this expectation.
Final report ("B" semester):
Each team will prepare a report that provides evidence of the bulleted list above. As the semester progresses, we'll chat about the format of that report, its length, and the appropriate "extras" to append to it (for example: a copy of the contract, minutes from client meetings, etc.). You'll also complete a reflection (tailored to your own experience)--a document that (with minor refinement) is suitable for your Academic ePortfolio!
The final report has multiple audiences: the client and me. It's a technical report--with a professional (but not overly academic) tone. I'm not impressed by excessive EDTEC jargon, and it most certainly will be a turn-off to your client -- so make the language clear and accessible. "Jargonese" won't serve you well in the world after SDSU.
Case briefings ("A" semester):
Here you will look in more depth at an assigned case. Each team will (virtually) brief the class on its efforts (in no more than 15 minutes); two to four students (and I) will provide detailed feedback on that presentation. The goal is to be creative yet realistic; let the case and common sense help you plan what to do. I also encourage you to review a few examples from previous semesters.
Papers:
We in EDTEC use the style guide of the American Psychological Association (APA) as a reference for all written documents. Among other things, the APA Style Guide details how to write a reference section of a paper, how to properly use citations in the body of the text, and how to caption tables and figures. You can buy the current version at almost any bookstore for about $20. [Check out: http://tinyurl.com/apastyles]
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Waiver:
The university has asked faculty whose students participate in off-campus activities to include in our syllabi a statement about risk, liability and prior approval:
"This course requires students to participate in off-campus activities that might involve some risk to the student, such as exposure to accidents or personal injury. By reading this syllabus, you are agreeing that you are aware of these risks and agree to hold harmless the San Diego State University, the State of California, the trustees of the California State University and Colleges and its officers, employees and agents against all claims, demands, judgments, suits, expenses and costs on account of participation in these off-campus activities. Students using their own vehicles to transport themselves or other students should have current automobile insurance. Finally, on rare occasions, organizations we work with might ask students to maintain professional liability insurance at their own expense. SDSU does not require this of our students as a condition for enrollment, but it is something you may wish to consider. One (of many) source of such student liability insurance is at 800.621.3008."