Overview: What's this charrette about? [June 25, 2012, 3:17 p.m.]
Design Charrette Goals
- Inventory best practices and redesign trends in teaching and learning in Developmental English
- Brainstorm what new approaches, resources, tools, etc. might support broader access and greater success for students needing remediation
- Build a community of practice around this topic
Charrette Design
This brainstorming and design course will run for 2 weeks with asynchronous resource postings and hosted discussions. One synchronous event is planned for the second to last day, July 19, at 2pm EDT. This course is co-facilitated by a team of volunteers and will run throughout weeks of July 9-20.
Certificate of Completion
For participants interested in receiving P2PU College of Education certification of course completion, you will be required to meet a minimun level of participation, which will include posting discussion questions and answers on each topic and suggesting up to five resources (sample syllibi, open education resource, useful free web-based tools, research papers, successful examples of activities, etc.)
Draft List of Tasks to Be Completed
Week 1/Day 1: Opening - Orientation, Information
- Overview of P2PU and peer learning
- Introductions of co-facilitators, participants
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Refine course structure, topics, assignments
- Call for additional resources and additions to syllabus
Week 1 Day 2-3
- Core Competencies, Successful Approaches: Reading Comprehension
Week 1 Day 4-5
- Core Competencies, Successful Approaches: English Language Fundamentals
Week 2 Day 1-2
- Core Competencies and Successful Practices: Writing/Composition
Week 2 Day 3
- Core Competencies and Successful Practices: Learning/Study Skills for 21st c. college success
Week 2 Day 4 LIVE WEB PANEL
- Big Ideas in Redesigning Developmental English Curriculum
- July 19, 11:00 PDT/2:00 EDT
- Link to come
Some background: Successful and Emergent Practices will be discussed throughout in terms of how these approaches may augment with use of online tools and media, social networking, learning communities and other 21st c trends in teaching and learning:
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Emergent Practices and Redesign projects: What is working for dev students?
- Integrated
- Accelerated
- Concurrent enrollment
- Contextualization
- Project-Based
- Technology assisted
- Common Core articulation to Placement Exams
- Authentic Assessment
- Open Learning Resources
Possible Follow on Projects:
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Rapid Prototyping - Curriculum Hackathon
- Design new curriculum proposals
- Contribute lesson suggestions, outlines, open resources
- Peer review and additions, augmentations, adaptations
- Design multiple assessment approaches
- Publish results - open access, creative commons, attribution of all co-facilitators
- Conference presentations
- F2F meet up (if funding is available)
NROC will be developing rich online open resources for teaching and learning developmental english core competencies in 2013-2014. We use a participatory design and development process and welcome interest from subject matter experts who might want to be involved in the ongoing project.