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LMS Build Reflection EDET 755 Keith Davis June 25, 2012

For our course on mobile learning, we used the site Course Sites to build our course. This was a first for me as I have never built, or been a part of the design, of an online course. The site provides various design templates and I also felt that it was user friendly, easy to learn, but a little tedious in some of the tasks. I learned a lot about LMS sites through this activity. My teammates were superb and I learned a lot from them as well.
 * Built Course **

The course we created was similar to this course because the design worked. We divided the topics into learning modules and used the discussion board as the primary interactive tool. There was a module where the students with smart phones could download Blachboard App and use it for the course. The instructors, or course leaders as we were referred, interacted well and promptly with the students. I was humbled though because there was no interaction in the first module – my module. I designed it so the students could get there “feet wet” in the course and to initiate dialogue between the students.

Overall, this was a great experience for me. I learned a lot about LMS design and I was fortunate to have the teammates I had. Cindy, Stan, and Jeff did an outstanding job.

The course I participated in An Introduction to Grant Writing that was built by Dawn, Stephanie, Tiffany, Jenn. I really learned some things about grant proposals and they did a great job in there design. Some of the navigation was a bit confusing, but not impossible though there were some tabs that had nothing in them. I feel it was successful because I did learn something from it. The instructors emailed us students with updates and made frequent announcements. The readings that were provided were informative and relevant and the activities supported the lesson. Their discussion board was their primary means of interaction. Students were expected to post there input to the discussion and reply to other students. Overall I believe the course was well thought out and structured well also. I’m sure that like us, there experience is limited in LMS sites and this was a good job despite that and the short time to put this together compared to the time that goes into a actual course.
 * Observed Course **

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