Self Evaluation


Home Policies/Guidelines/Tools Orientation/Introduction Communication Management Direct Instruction Discussion/Collaboration Assessment/Feedback Additional Resources Student Success Strategies Glossary and Resources Tips/Strategies/Techniques Self Evaluation	Self Evaluation I am very pleased with my toolkit and feel that I completed it successfully. Creating my own examples of policies and guidelines gave me guides to go by and tailor accordingly to online courses I may teach in the future. Also, by completing this assignment, I was challenged to think about how I would handle situations regarding students who lack in participation, strategies I can implement to ensure student success in my classes, and what is considered timely feedback. I was also able to include in this toolkit, aspects and ideas I learned from my own class readings, as well as ideas I learned in this class from my peers. One thing I would have done differently when creating this toolkit is make its design look better. I would have also liked to add more resources for teachers, as well as students, especially links to free online tools. Since this toolkit will be a valuable resource itself for me in the future, I will still most likely add more of these, as well as additional tips and ideas for strategies and techniques as they are presented to me. By completing this toolkit, I learned that there are a lot of components that make up an online course and it takes a lot of time, planning, critical thinking, and creativity on the instructors part in order to put it all together in accessible and understandable content. The only thing I can think of that would be a great additional component to this toolkit would be an example syllabus. I realize that all the separate policies and guidelines can be part of a syllabus, however, by combining them along with other pertinent information into one document would be good practice for creating a complete syllabus.
Copyright © 2012 Amy E. Hissom - ITEC-67444 - Teaching Online Courses - Personal Online Teaching Toolkit - Fall 2012

Policies/Guidelines/Tools
Orientation/Introduction
Communication
Management
Direct Instruction
Discussion/Collaboration
Assessment/Feedback

Additional Resources
Student Success Strategies
Glossary and Resources
Tips/Strategies/Techniques
Self Evaluation

Self Evaluation

I am very pleased with my toolkit and feel that I completed it successfully. Creating my own examples of policies and guidelines gave me guides to go by and tailor accordingly to online courses I may teach in the future. Also, by completing this assignment, I was challenged to think about how I would handle situations regarding students who lack in participation, strategies I can implement to ensure student success in my classes, and what is considered timely feedback. I was also able to include in this toolkit, aspects and ideas I learned from my own class readings, as well as ideas I learned in this class from my peers.

One thing I would have done differently when creating this toolkit is make its design look better. I would have also liked to add more resources for teachers, as well as students, especially links to free online tools. Since this toolkit will be a valuable resource itself for me in the future, I will still most likely add more of these, as well as additional tips and ideas for strategies and techniques as they are presented to me.

By completing this toolkit, I learned that there are a lot of components that make up an online course and it takes a lot of time, planning, critical thinking, and creativity on the instructors part in order to put it all together in accessible and understandable content. The only thing I can think of that would be a great additional component to this toolkit would be an example syllabus. I realize that all the separate policies and guidelines can be part of a syllabus, however, by combining them along with other pertinent information into one document would be good practice for creating a complete syllabus.