224+Springfield

Online Program and Portfolio Development in a Nutshell || Emily Springfield, University of Michigan Dentistry, Michigan, United States, espring@umich.edu Anne Gwozdek, University of Michigan Dentistry, Michigan, United States, agwozdek@umich.edu Wendy Kershbaum, University of Michigan Dentistry, Michigan, United States, wendyek@umich.edu || We have built an online dental hygiene degree completion program from the ground up in the last two years. This program is extremely interactive – it relies heavily on student-student collaboration and interaction as well as extensive involvement of one or more instructors per course. The program is exceptionally cohesive: concepts flow readily from one course to the next, and no material or skill is repeated for the duration of the program. We’ve developed excellent course planning worksheets, templates, and rubrics to make the development process thorough, fast, and effective.
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The program also interweaves an electronic portfolio throughout the program. (We use the Sakai-based Open Source Portfolio.) Students use it twice in each course and create a capstone portfolio at the end of the program. This helps students retain and apply course information, documents the progression of their competence, and gives us valuable information about the effectiveness of our teaching.

Our session will give an overview of the program, the planning process, course development (including templates, rubrics, etc.), and the use of the electronic portfolio. || General Session Forum All ||
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