I am taking a Web 2.0 and Social Media graduate course at Appalachian State University. After logging into the Moodle server during the first week, I found several forums. I posted and thought, hmmm...where is that syllabus? I sent a private message to the instructor thinking that maybe he simply forgot to expose it to us. It happens. No syllabus. Other students started to inquire about the syllabus in the forum. We then got directions to start creating our own syllabus.
Shock. Honestly, shock.
I can roll with most punches. I can appreciate free form, but as a typical online student, I go 90 miles an hour on an average day. I work 50 hours a week, work on the board of NCCCADL to plan the March conference and have to develop 38 online courses with 32 faculty members by the beginning of May. My head is looking for a syllabus so that I can plan my life for the next 4 months. My life is one HUGE to-do list.
The initial approach did not work for me initially. Sorry DI. I needed a bit more of an idea of our approach. Icebreakers are nice, but once we moved into the second week, I craved some overall direction. I like the fact that we get to state what we want to learn. This is Web 2.0 afterall. These tools are constantly changing, but on this end as a student, I understand even more know the need to share at least your overall vision of the course.
I do feel better now about how things are going.
