Again, if you somehow missed them, make sure to read part 1, including the disclaimer, HERE and also the rest of the series.
Suggestions for you going forward
In this last post, I want to summarize some of the things we
have learned, and what we would pass along to people starting on this
path. The suggestions below are in no
particular order, and if they seem like “duh” things, well, sometimes time pressure
makes people do funny things:
1.
Give yourself plenty of time, like three years,
to do this. If you can.
2.
Start the conversations with everyone that will
be impacted by this, registration, advising, the registrar, student services,
the other departments who have your courses are pre-reqs, and your marketing
people to name a few.
3.
Start the conversations with faculty early. Make sure to form committees and have people
start looking around at all the different models.
4.
Contact your state governing bodies to see what
is on their radar. Co-Req is “all the
rage” now, so you might have a surprise from some governing body, or maybe you
can work with them to avoid surprises!
5.
Start having conversations in your department
about topics and approaches (technology, calculators, common exams and/or
common finals, etc)
6.
Take the time now to think about what (and learn
about what others say) are the learning objectives in your courses, and how you
are meeting and measuring those. One
result from the state for Blinn is we have to measure many more things about
our students. We worked hard to make
those things easy to measure.
7.
Learn from others. Ask around, several groups from several
states have done something like this, don’t re-invent the wheel.
8.
At the end of the day, this is just the next
phase / fad and in a few years, something else will come along!
As always, if you have questions, comments, etc, let me
know.
Twitter: @robebymathdude
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