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Riverland FlexPace™: Mastery-based Learning

Deb McManimon, Ph.D. J.C. Turner, Ph.D.

Overview

• Competency Overview
• Transfer Learning Objectives/Course Outcomes
• Using the Competency Tool
• Questions
• Wrap up

Competency Overview

• Competencies
• Enables assessment of outcomes
• Tracks information about the knowledge, skills and abilities

acquired at course, department, or institutional level

• Provides visible structural organization for
• Students
• Faculty
• Administration
• Outside Accrediting bodies

What Are Competencies

Why Use Competencies

• Setting up competencies allows for better alignment and assessment
• Data is important for driving decision-making
• Data is needed for accreditation in many programs
• D2L Brightspace tools
• Help automate process
• Proper set up is needed

Structural Organization

• Prior to Competency Set-up
• Create hierarchy of structure
• Institutional Outcomes
• Program Outcomes
• Learning Objectives
• Course Outcomes
• Activities
• Business department used Excel to allow for filtering

Considerations Prior to Set-up

• Considerations for Faculty/Department
• Will students need to meet all objectives/outcomes to be competent?
• What happens if student doesn’t meet competency?
• Will you use non-graded items in your competency structure?
• Review Competencies Set up with D2L Admin
• Review set up with Admin
• Determine if higher level competencies should be created

D2L Admin Level Set-up

• Enable Competencies & Template permissions
• Create top level Competencies
• Institutional and Program Level
• Edit Competency Structure
• Add Parents and Children
• Faculty will attach activities to Learning Objectives
• Questions – contact J.C. Turner

NOTE: Higher Level Set-up Admin

• Competencies
• Admin level
• Institutional Outcomes
• Used across multiple departments
• Program Outcomes
• Used across multiple courses with department
• (can ask JC for further details)
• Course level
• Learning Objectives
• Learning Outcomes
• Activities

• Learning Objective (What is assessed?)
• Represent items/skills needed to acquire competency
• Should be a statement that is directly measurable
• Activities (How is it assessed?)
• Used to evaluate completion of learning objectives
• Can be quiz, survey, assignment, discussion, content, grade, or manual item

Additional Terms

Program or Institutional Competencies

Competency View Instructor

Competency View Student

Transfer Learning Objectives and Course Outcomes

• Using Your Own Course and Homework
• Master Course Outline (MCO)
• Objectives
• Outcomes
• Activities
• Grades

Your Homework

• Using Your Own Course and Homework
• Master Course Outline (MCO)
• Outcomes
• Objectives
• Activities
• Grades

Your Course

Review MCO (sample)

Performance Measure

Create Master Grid (sample)

Benefits of Competencies

• Alignment
• Thresholds
• Views in tool
• Structural view
• Results view
• Faculty can see user progress
• Students can see their progress
• Within a course
• Across a program

Alignment

Thresholds of Measurement

Program or Institutional Competencies

Faculty View within Competencies

View Results- Competency Tool

Faculty View within Course

• Edit Course
• View User Progress
• Snapshot of learner progress through objectives

Student View

Using the Competency Tool

Step 1 – Copy MCO to Template

Copy and Paste/Enter Program and course information into template ***We did this course by course***

Step 2 –Print Graded Items

Print graded items list from course

Step 3 –Enter Graded Items

Enter graded items from course into Performance Measure

Step 4-Transfer to Grid (optional)

Login to your course for working on competencies

Course Admin/Assessment/Competencies

Step 5–Create New Learning Objective (LO)

Tool-Edit Course- Competency- New Learning Objective

Name type of competency Institutional, Program, etc. with specifics (ex IO1, BUSA PO1, BUSA1050 LO1, BUSA1050 CO1

Step 5a-New Learning Objective

Copy and paste from spreadsheet/document

Step 6 – Edit Structure

Choose the competency, then Edit Structure

Step 6a- Add Child or Parent

Step 6b – Add Child

Add Child (left image)-Then Add child to this competency (right image). You can add Children to Parents or Parents to Children

Step 6c- New Learning Objective (LO)

Add Child – New Learning Objective

Step 6d- Complete LO

Step 7-Create New Course Outcome (CO)

Choose the Learning Objective, Structure, then Edit Structure

Step 7a- Add Child/Copy from Grid

Choose Add Child, Copy from Grid, Enforced Method, Ready for Evaluation

To add a sub level- choose Learning Objective from within a Learning Objective (we call Course Outcome)

View Structure

Step 8- Add Activity

Choose Course Outcome, Structure, edit Structure, Incorporate Activities

Step 8a- Select Activity

• Choose activity
• Example
• Grades Activity
• Quiz 1

Step 8b- Grades Activity

• Select item
• Assess Objective
• Numeric
• Required
• Overall Threshold
• Add

View Activities

Hierarchy View Edit Structure View

Summary

Competency Structure

• Facilitates alignment
• Institutional, Program, Course
• Allows students to see course at a glance
• Provides curriculum mapping
• Defines measurable outcomes

Student View

Curriculum Map

Competency-Based Delivery

• Structure will be in place
• Set up now eases transition
• Allows students to share areas of competency
• Allows faculty to see areas for improvement

Analytics

• Data can be manually extracted
• We currently use for accreditation
• Analytics is now available as an add on package
• Data will be in D2L for future analyzing

Questions?