Course and Lecture Organization

1. Course and Lecture Organization General Guidelines

2. BA 9200 Course Overview Teaching Philosophy Students Abilities Course Level and Scope Desired Learning Levels Write Course and Topic Objectives Select Effective Teaching Methods How Students Learn The Lecture Testing and Grading Active Learning

3. Organization Strategies • Hierarchical • Chronological or Process • Critical Path Why organize? It addresses Feldman’s top rated factor for student achievement.

4. Hierarchical Course Diagram for MBA 8011 at Lecture 1

5. Hierarchical Course Diagram for MBA 8011 at Lecture 6 Basic Principle: Start at the top, and add Levels as needed.

6. Hierarchical Lecture Diagramfor Lecture 5 of MBA 8011

7. Chronological or Process Course Outline for SQA 3.Establish Process Capability 1.Select Quality Characteristic to Monitor 4. Continually Monitor Process: Control Charting 2. Ensure Process Under Statistical Control 5. Improve Process by Design of Experiment

8. Principles of Chronological or Process Organization • Identify a Chronological Theme within Chapter. It could be a: • Process (Used for Previous Slide) • Cause and Effect: Antecedent, Intervening, and Outcome Variables • Use When Sequence is Important.

9. Chronological or Process Lecture Outline for Hypothesis Testing Set up Null and Alternate Choose an Alpha Level Compute Test Statistic Compare to Critical Value, Conclude

10. Critical Path Organized Lecture Statistical Independence Conditional Prob. Unconditional Prob. Probability Rules Previous Lecture on Relative Frequency

11. Principles of Critical-Path Organization • Start with Most Important Goal (s). Place at top of diagram. • Ask What Topics, at a minimum, must be known to reach the goal. • Seek the Critical Path. • Work Backwards Until Reach Previous Lecture Material or Already-Known Knowledge Base. • Present Lecture Bottom-Up.

12. Summary for Designing Organized Courses and Lectures Course Diagram Cognitive Objectives Lecture Diagram Lecture Strategy

13. Three Critical Principles for Presenting Content Effectively (McKeatchie) • Go From Familiar to the Unfamiliar. • Two to three to four dimensions (Flatland) • Go From Simple to the Complex. • Range to Standard Deviation • Judgmental segmentation to Cluster Analysis • Go From Concrete to the Abstract. • Montessori School Philosophy – Binomial Squares • Example to Theory (Regression formula)

14. Other Tips for Presenting Content Effectively • Establish Why Before What - Relevance. • Emphasize Organization and Interconnectedness (How Ideas Flow). • Increase Student Talk Time - Active Learning. • Look at Students’ Eyes; Do They Understand? • Use of different technologies. • Use of humor (where appropriate!).

15. References • Lowman, J. Mastering the Techniques of Teaching. 2nd Edition. (Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, 1995). • Feldman, K. “The Association Between Student Ratings of Specific Instructional Dimensions and Student Achievement,” Research in Higher Education, 30(6) 1989. pp. 583-645.

16. BA 9200 Course Overview Teaching Philosophy Students Abilities Course Level and Scope Desired Learning Levels Write Course and Topic Objectives Select Effective Teaching Methods How Students Learn The Lecture Testing and Grading Active Learning