A Course and Curriculum Design Wiki: Sustainability, Authenticity, and Collaboration

1. A Course and Curriculum Design Wiki:Sustainability, Authenticity, and Collaboration Kathryn Plank & Teresa Johnson University Center for the Advancement of Teaching The Ohio State University

2. Course Design Institutes To help faculty prepare for quarters-to-semester conversion, we are offering multiple course/curriculum design institutes • 5 days long • 12 participants in each institute • Interactive, hands-on sessions based on the principle of backwards design • Participants complete individual portfolios of their planning materials

3. Why a Wiki? • Sustainability • Authenticity • Community

5. Sustainability • Handouts and worksheets are all available on the Wiki. • Participants work on laptops during the sessions. • They can view materials and work on their portfolios on the wiki, both in the sessions and at home. • No paper is used.

6. Handouts and resources

7. Authenticity • We wanted participants to leave the institute with the basic structure of the course, including beginnings for a syllabus, assignments, assessment tools, and a course outline. • We did NOT want them to leave with a pile of worksheets and handouts that would sit on their desks. • Wiki pages export to Word for easy access and ongoing work.

8. Participant Portfolios Xx Xxx’s

9. Sample worksheet

10. Collaboration • The institutes were designed to build community and collaboration. • Participants can view and comment on each other’s portfolios. • With each new institute, the community grows. Participants can collaborate on their work both in real-time and across quarters/institutes.

11. Peer comments

12. Feedback Feedback on the Wiki has been extremely positive: • “very helpful – I will probably implement a wiki format in my courses” • “Really liked it and am scheming about how to use it for curricular redesign” • “The wiki idea was excellent (also allowing content to remain available for future use); also the ability to work progressively on our own course.” • “I loved all the examples and links, and comments from everyone else.”