LARJ

**LARJ**
|| Adriana Greenlief || Tiffany Linc || Roxanne Witherspoon ||  ||   ||
 * Julia Cutler


 * Meet the Team....**


 * Julia Cutler - **Julia has a Bachelor's in Technical Education. She currently teaches as an adjunct for Stark State College.


 * Adriana Greenlief - **Adriana received a Bachelor's Degree in Middle Childhood Education from Kent State University. She is licensed to teach math and social studies in grades four through nine. This year marks the fourth in a teaching position in the Barberton City School District where she educates eighth graders in math and algebra.


 * Tiffany Linc- **Tiffany holds 7-12 Integrated Science Licensure. She worked for 2 years at the Opportunity School in Wooster City School District. At the time she taught 7th grade general science, Earth Science, Physical Science, Biology and Physics. Currently she works for Ohio Virtual Academy and teaches 9th grade Physical Science.


 * Roxanne Witherspoon - **Roxanne has a Bachelor’s in Early Childhood Education. She has been teaching for three years for Akron Public Schools. She has taught Kindergarten all three years at the same school.


 * **Instructional Design Problem ** Problem 3 - Ensuring Quality for Online Course Development ||
 * **SME: Dr. Cheryl Ward** ||
 * **SME: Dr. Cheryl Ward** ||


 * **Initial Status Report** ||

=INITIAL STATUS REPORT = =TEAM or PROJECT NAME __LARJ Ensuring Quality for Online Course Development__ =

Team Member Attendance: Julia Cutler, Tiffany Linc, Roxanne Witherspoon <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Contacts with SME (date, time, method): Saturday February 25, 10:30am, Elluminate <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Describe Learning Situation__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Online instruction <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Describe the Learning Problem__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Online learning is often created but not evaluated for quality. Learners will be able to evaluate online learning using the Quality Matters Rubric(s) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Statement of the learning goal__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Learners will be able to use the QM rubric to evaluate online <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">__What are the Needs?__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Learners will understand that online instruction is necessary because online learning is here to stay. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Learners will be introduced to QM. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Learners will be introduced to QM rubrics. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Learners will understand the QM rubric (maybe identify parts of the QM rubric?) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Learners will be able to use the QM rubric to evaluate instructional material. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Who are the Learners?__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">IT master’s students, instructional designers, those creating online learning materials. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Key Learning Tasks__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Read Online Articles <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Watch Online Video <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Participation in Discussion <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Practical Application of QM rubrics (6-12 and higher ed) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Relevant Learning Theory__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Underlying Principles from Quality Matters Program <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">__High-level performance objectives__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Measure quality of instruction (practical application) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Explain the rubric (discussion) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Design an activity (create instruction materials) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Identify selected instructional strategies__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Introduction of why being able to evaluate online learning is so important (here to stay): reading, video <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Discussion over this trend of online learning <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Identify selected instructional sequence__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Explain that online learning is on the increase <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Illustrate the necessity for evaluating online learning <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Introduce QM and rubric <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Evaluate learning using QM rubric <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Create own instructional material based on QM program ||


 * <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%; text-align: center;">**Team Progress Reports** ||
 * 1.) [[file:LARJ Progress Report 31712 (1).docx]] ||
 * 2.) [[file:LARJ Progress Report 32512 (2).doc]] ||
 * 3.) [[file:LARJ Progress Report 4212 (3).docx]] ||
 * 4.)[[file:LARJ Progress Report 41912.docx]] ||
 * 5.) [[file:LARJ Progress Report 42212.docx]] ||

Here is the link to the final project:
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 * Embed Final Team Presentation Here ||
 * [|Final Project]


 * Please question or comment in response to our presentation below. Feel free to add more rows if needed. ||

I so enjoyed seeing each one of you and it was so apparent that you each were so involved and engaged in this project. The presentation was so well put together, thevideos were great as were the additional links out to documentsand screencasts. I totally understand all the parts of your projecthow you did each part and the quality iterative process you used! || What was the greatest thing that you think your team learned about the QM process or about the process you went through for this project? PS Loved your "working" photos of your group! || Thank you Dr. Ward! I think the greatest thing we learned about the process of completing our project was keeping a schedule and following the timeline to get each part of ADDIE done. We also learned how important it was to keep in touch with each other through email. The greatest thing we learned about QM is how useful it can be to two of our group members who teach online courses; they can evaluate their course with the 6-12 and higher ed rubrics now. We learned how QM can help all of us evaluate our courses better and use the rubrics as checklists to evaluate our planning and teaching. || not familiar with Quality Matters prior to viewing this and it was very interesting and informative. It was eveident that you guys worked well together and put a lot of effort into this project. Nice Job! || I found this information very interesting and useful. What was the most surprising thing surpising thing you found when completing this project? Do you think most of your learners had an "AHA" moment about designing quality materials? || Each memeber of our group likely had different moments of surprise, however all of us were intrigued by the flexibility in application of the QM rubrics. Depending on the portion of the rubric used, the QM Program can be applied to entire programs and courses, or just individual units or lessons. If our learners had an 'aha' moment about designing online quality materials, it was in recognizing that standard face to face, or brick and mortar materials (even if they involved technology) were not necessarily well suited for an online learning environment. The most evident 'aha' moment that our participants had, was in learning about the substanial and sustaining increase in online schooling, especially in k-12. Their surprise was clearly expressed in the discussion forums. || Moore || This was really nicely done, Team LARJ! Clear, thorough, interesting, informative, and visually appealing--absolutely SOLID! || Just out of curiosity, did you run across TPACK in your research for this module and, if so, what did you think of it in relation to online teaching? || Thank you, we are glad you enjoyed it. In some of the resources that we found, TPACK did show up. We did a lot of research over online learning, the future of online learning, problems with online learning, etc. However, I do not recall that the Quality Matters resources specifically used the term TPACK. The QM website claims that the rubrics were developed "in conjunction with best practices in the industry" to evaluate online instruction. To me, that would involve TPACK. Here is a link to the higher ed rubric []. If you look at the standards, you can see that much of what it deals with would support what we know of TPACK. || At first we didn't think that the work load was //too// difficult. What we discovered after an SME meeting however, was that the module we were to design was not for a lesson (in higher ed and 6-12 as we incorrectly thought) but for a course. This seemed to double the work. Additionally, we tried to place our module in Schoology. We did this not realizing Springboard's availability and hoping Schoology would find wide acceptance with participants, but this too was a poor assumption. As all of our participants were IT students, Springboard was the best choice and thus we needed to transfer all of the materials into the 'new' LMS. So for the latter two reasons it did seem like a great deal of work. However the success, as demonstrated by participant growth in QM knowledge, made it well worth it! || Where this is really crucial however, is in the selection of the course/virtual school. If your district is like the district in which I live, or the B&M in which I used to teach, they purchased courses from an existing online school. Since they don't develop the materials themselves, they need to use QM to evaluate the materials they are going to purchase. For example, the distrct in which I live has purchased courses from FLVS. The scary thing is that they did not state on what criteria they based this purchase. It would be interesting to find out and to see if they made the best choice! || Also, for those of you who teach online, does your district require you to use the QM rubrics to evaluate your courses? Or does administration evaluate your courses with QM rubrics? {Interesting topic! I'm so glad to learn more about it!} || Good questions! I teach virtually in an entirely online school. I often get people who scoff at the idea of online school. Even my dental hygenist asked (as she was cleaning my teeth) "aren't those like fake schools, with low standards?" My common and true reply is "Like with brick and mortar schools there are some online schools that are low quality, but there are some that are spectacular." I can truly tell you though, as some one who taught 7-12 (and even 6 for a while) in brick and mortar and interviewed at 3 separate online schools, that my place of employment is quality. We have issues, as does any school, though they are different that what might exist in brick and mortar. Our content standards meet and and in some ways exceed B&M. When I used QM on my course (outlined and structured by K12) it meets every QM standard (one of the virtual schools I interviewed at could hardly score a 30). It is a shame however, because despite the probable use of QM by K12, they don't pass it on to us. Our school has not implemented it or offered professional development relating to it. It would still be beneficial for our school to train us as several areas apply to individual lessons (especially synchronous sessions) that teachers independently create. ||
 * Your Name: || Comment: || Question: || Team's Response: ||
 * Dr. Ward || A really phenomenal presentation TEAM LARJ!!
 * Dawn Cancelliere || I enjoyed watching your Prezi and loved all the videos. I was
 * Laura Lucas || Great presentation team LARG; I loved all of the videos! Everything that you did was clearly articulated :) I was not familiar with QM before this class. This is very useful information! || Since I'd never heard of this before, I am curious to know if any of your team memebers were familiar with Quality Matters before you began your project? || Thank you Laura! No, none of us were familiar with Quality Matters before this project. When we were presented with the ID problems, this one was the most appealing to us because two of our team members teach online courses. Julia teaches higher ed and Tiffany teaches 9th grade Science. We are glad we had the opporunity to be introduced to Quality Matters because they can use it to evaluate their online courses and we also found it useful to use in our classrooms to evaluate or lessons and course materials. ||
 * Michelle
 * Tom Hammond || Your liberal use of videos in this presentation made it easy to follow instead of reading pages of text. It was fun to see each of your team members speak about each phase of the ADDIE process. The phases were explained thoroughly in the videos. || I noticed that there is a lot of content in your Springboard classroom that needed read, watched, and completed for the assignments in a week's time. Did your participants have time to complete all of these materials in a week's time? Our team discovered that our own participants complained of being buried for too many materials to read & watch; we covered two educational modules that were originally slated for a week's time but had to be adjusted for two weeks instead. Did you have that problem as well? What did you do to alleviate that? || Hi Tom, There was a lot of content for the participants to get through. I think it might have been a problem for some as it was at the end of the semester when a lot of people are finishing up other courses. We did have a few more sign up to participate than what actually finished. We didn't really have people complain to us though about not being able to get it done. One of the things that started happening was that they were trying to complete the assignments in the sample modules, once we realized they were doing that we corrected the issue and reminded them that they were just reviewing and evaluating the sample modules. Once they realized this, a lot more were finished up pretty quickly. ||
 * Isaac Fickey || Your presentaion was terrific! It was very thorough and informative, Not just saying that because it sounds good, you guys really did a great job. I too love the use of videos in your presentation, it really made it easy to go through || I was going to ask if any of you were familiar with the topic before you started but I see that was already addressed..What did you enjoy most about this process, I know it's work but you guys utilized a lot of different sources? Did it seem like a lot of work for a one week module? || Hi Isaac! We appreciate your feedback. I think that we enjoyed several aspects of this project from working with a supportive and competent group to learning new technologies and methods of instruction. Each member of our group had specific strengths that they willingly shared with the other members. This lessened the difficulty of the project and broaden our own skills and abilities as learners and ecuators.
 * Bernadine Edgerly || I am amazed with the presentation! You guys covered alot of information. I really liked how you mixed it up with the videos. || We currently are including a blended program at our local high school. The students will be in class three days a week and work from home two days a week. This is suppose to help decrease the amount of students that leave us for virtual learning. Do you think that the teachers at a high school level are aware of this kind of topic? If not how do you think it should be presented? || Hi Bernadine! It is interesting that you mention this. The district in which I live is trying to do the same thing. To be honest I think very few high school teachers, whether in a virtual or brick and mortar environment, are aware of Quality Matters. The QM material should be contracted by the district and explored through professional development activites. The actual pd activities can and should vary.
 * Lauren Butcher || Great presentation! I thought the whole thing was put together so well, and I love how each of you contributed a video. The whole presentation was very informative and I enjoyed going through it to learn more about Quality Matters. || I have never taught an online course and I honestly don't know anyone in my personal life who does. My school district doesn't offer any online courses (as far as I know!), so I am curious to know how much 6-12 schools really know about Quality Matters. I feel like there is a misconception out there that online school is "easy" and "less work", so I'm not sure how well the quality of the courses is being monitored. What are your thoughts and/or what did you find throughout your project?