Stats course: real world data and infographics
Fragment of a discussion from Documentation talk:Course Design Intensive/Facilitators Guidebook/Case Studies
This course appears to have aspects of the five characteristics of learner-centered teaching put forward by Welmer (2012):
- How does it engage students in the hard, messy work of learning? [Students help create the rubrics]
- In what ways is explicit skill instruction included? ["Suggestions for finding and using Creative Commons images"]
- What opportunities do students have to reflect on what they are learning and how they are learning it? [Peer review and assessment require some reflection on learning]
- How does it tap into student motivation by giving them some control over the learning processes? [Students know that they will be applying the grading rubric they helped create, so (hopefully) they have a better grounding in the objectives behind the rubric]
- How does it encourage collaboration? [Students appear to work in groups and give feedback to other groups]