EL7002-8+E-learning+Instructional+Strategies

Started: 6 February 2012 Ended: 10 March 2012 Final Grade: A (97.52/100.00)

 * Return to Home**

My second course in my specialization, and the title seems intriguing. Looking forward to determining better strategies of delivering and proposing e-learning. This course is supposed to be about instructional strategies - that's what the course description says, but none of the assignment are aligned with the course description; they are more about implementation of an e-learning strategy in an organization. So, the course should be called, E-Learning Implementation Strategies. The final assignment took me several weeks to complete - basically because I could not get my head around what I wanted to do with it. I'm pretty pleased with the result - let's see if my mentor is!

Assignment 3: Top Level Management Buy-In (89.3/100.0)
My lowest grade to date. I thought I did a good job on this, but my mentor says that I missed several parts of the assignment. At this point I'm holding onto an A, but I've got to get my bum in gear and ensure that I do better on the following papers. (My only B+ in the entire program.)

Assignment 4: Creating an E-learning Culture (90.0/100.0 before review, 95.0/100.00 after review)
The paper came back with all kinds of marks from "a number of grammatical, sentence structure, and APA 6 items" on it. It's probably not the best idea to pick a fight with your mentor (at least not when you're still in the middle of a class with 60% of the grade still in the balance), but I've had enough. I took each comment and looked it up in the APA guide, and found that over 90% of them were questionable! So, I wrote her back and point-by-point refuted here 'corrections.' She has promised to re-review the comments, but I noticed that she did not promise to re-grade it. Well, we'll see. I guess I'll have to submit perfect-perfect papers from here on out!

My mentor did re-grade the paper, and did give half of the points back. She didn't acknowledge that she was wrong, but I don't need that. Using an objective lens I can say that I reacted more passionately than I normally would, and that even though some of her comments were questionable, or a matter of opinion, they weren't necessarily wrong either.

Assignment 5: Meeting the Challenges of E-learning (98.5/100.0)
I went over this paper with a fine-tooth comb to ensure that the content aligned with the assignment, and that it was the best product that I could turn out. I just turned it in for grade, and will see how it fares. I am to have a phone conference with the mentor on the previous papers review and regrade in the next day or so - I suppose that we'll see.

Assignment 6: Justifying E-learning (100.0/100.0)
This assignment was long! A PowerPoint presentation and a 5-7 page pager! On two different topics! Oh, well, I reworked both and went over them with my fine-tooth comb to ensure alignment and the best product.

Assignment 7: E-learning Themes and Synthesis (99.0/100.0)
In this assignment there was a PowerPoint presentation and a paper, but they were at least tied together. This assignment was definitely the most fun of any of the other assignments in this class! I reworked it again, to ensure alignment. I hope that my mentor agrees with my assessment!

Assignment 8: Comprehensive Action Plan ( 100.0/100.0)
This assignment included an entire implementation strategy for a knowledge management system. It seemed to take forever to write, and then forever again to rework the material into a finely honed instrument. I will be very glad to close out this class! Generally, I am several weeks ahead in my coursework, but this class has gotten me behind for the rest of my classes. Should be interesting for the rest of the semester!


 * =Previous course= ||  || =**Home**= ||   || =Next course= ||

**© 2012 Stephen W. Watts. All Rights Reserved.**
= =