Faculty Development
2003 Spring Faculty Development Workshops
"Course Design, Development, and Implementation: Quality by
Design"
The quality of a product or service is not just a matter of using
good materials or of good workmanship. Without an excellent design,
materials and workmanship are wasted. The Spring 2003 faculty development
program will address the theoretical and practical issues of course
design.
Topics and Dates for the Workshops
(Click on a Workshop Title for more information)
Developing
a Performance-based (or outcomes-based) Syllabus
Date: Wednesday March 12th - Meeting Room in Building
1
Co-ordinator: Gail Rathbun
Participants: Ahmed Legrouri, Kate Owens, Ahmed Ibnouelkhayat,
Najia Elalami
The syllabus is the design of any course. The workshop will focus on
developing performance-based objectives, the foundation of the syllabus.
The objectives provide the basis for the design of assessment as well
as for the design of day-to-day learning activities and teaching strategies.
Attention will be focused on identifying learning activities that can
reduce or eliminate student plagiarism. Participants can use their performance-based
objectives in creating a course web site in Workshop 3: Designing and
developing a course web site.
Part 1: Using a web site for Teaching (a development of the
Spring 2002 event)
Date: Wednesday March 26th - Meeting Room in Building
1
Co-ordinator: Lynne Dahmen
Participants: Hind Kabaili, Abdellah Chekayri, Pascal
Clerotte, Fatima Zahra Attiqi
This workshop will focus on how to use web content, such as web syllabi,
course sites and managed learning systems, to support pedagogical goals
in the classroom. Presenters will discuss a variety of ways of providing
content and encouraging communication using a variety of web-based tools.
As a group we will discuss general pedagogical goals and how to choose
appropriate technologies. ITS will present information about current
and future support for these technologies at AUI..
Part 2: Designing and developing a course web site (Webshop)
Date: Wednesday April 2nd - Multimedia Lab in Building
10
Coordinator: Jonathan Wyrtzen
Participants: Bob Burgess, Lynne Dahmen, Hasan Darhmaoui
This is a hands-on workshop taking place in the Multimedia Laboratory.
It can be offered as many times as demand requires and at any level
of expertise (within the limits of available knowledge!)
The course web site is a virtual space that encompasses the syllabus,
course materials, interactive study guides, bulletin boards, and electronic
submission of homework and other assignments. Students can download
assignments and other materials from the website, shifting the responsibility
for this task from the teacher to the student. Simple course web sites,
such as that of the CAD, can be built with an intermediate level of
skill and a substantial investment of time and technical support.
Standards in Student Evaluation
Date: Wednesday April 9th - Meeting Room in Building
1
Coordinator: Peter Hardcastle
Participants: Samira El Atia, Ibrahim al Bahadli, Others
to be announced
Summative Evaluation
The most common way to gather information about a student with a view
to evaluating his/her performance is by examinations, tests, quizzes,
assignments etc. (summative evaluation). Last Spring the Teaching Effectiveness
Discussions considered alternative ways of gathering this kind of data.
Methods considered included outcomes-based evaluation, portfolio assessment,
continuous assessment etc. This session will focus on innovative methods
in summative evaluation and work towards establishing a broad faculty-based
consensus on what constitute effective methods of evaluation and acceptable
standards of achievement.
Ways of 'designing out plagiarism' from evaluation procedures will
be examined.
Issues to be addressed include:
Criterion and norm-referenced of evaluative systems
Ethics of Assessment
Writing a test specification (test design).
Maintaining standards - what makes an 'A'?
Dr. Mazin Al Janabi : Evaluation
and Testing 
Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC)
Date: Wednesday 23rd April - Meeting Room in Building
1
Coordinators: Paula Pratt / Robert Mittan
Participants: Amy Sniffin
Competence in academic writing is a baseline skill for all students,
particularly those studying in a foreign language. Systems can be put
in place to ensure that academic writing is valued across the curriculum
in all disciplines. This workshop will examine the concept of WAC and
look at ways to apply the principles in the context of AUI.
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