About 2 weeks after your course pilot is over, your Instructional Designer will schedule a Course Revision meeting with you. This meeting takes about an hour. As you can see in figure Y2 5.2, in advance of the meeting, your Instructional Designer will review:

• Your Equity-minded Course Review document
• Your Midterm Check In document
• Your “Notes to Self” from the chapter-by-chapter pilot survey
• End-of-term student survey feedback
• Workforce Advisory Board feedback

They will summarize key takeaways from each source so that it is easy for you to track the student experience and workforce input. Your Instructional Designer will organize questions for you so that the most actionable and high-impact opportunities for improvement are clear. All of this information will be waiting for you in the Course Revision Action Plan in your Google Folder.

Instructor Self-Report

During your Course Revision meeting, your Instructional Designer will ask you to talk through your experience teaching the pilot and take notes on what you say in the Course Revision Action Plan. This may be your first chance to summarize the takeaways from your pilot term. Often this discussion is quite motivating for creating change. Talking together can renew your energy and refresh your original intentions for your teaching. The goal of the self-report is to surface ideas to incorporate into your revision before sharing with an open license. Your Instructional Designer will ask you questions to spur critical reflection:

• Where do you spend too much or not enough time on a specific task or tasks?
• At what points in the course do you find yourself explaining issues to students more often than you should?
• Where is your energy placed in the course?
• Where should your energy be placed in the course? (McGahn 2018)

Your Instructional Designer will also help you to consider why and how problems may present themselves in the current course design. As you discuss your experience of teaching the course, your Instructional Designer will take notes and will keep the project Criteria for Success in mind, listening for opportunities where your own revision goals and the project goals overlap. Based on your conversation, your Instructional Designer will recommend the scope and steps of your revision focus for the next stage of the project. These notes and recommendations will go directly onto the Course Revision Action Plan document.

External Feedback

During the pilot, your students completed surveys about their experience in the course. The Project Manager will copy the end-of-term Student Experience Survey Feedback Report into your Course Folder. This is typically available 1-2 weeks after the end of your course pilot. In advance of your Course Revision Plan meeting, your Instructional Designer will review this report in full. They will summarize relevant data on equity-minded design, the diversity of representation in course materials, and measures of student inclusion and belonging into the Course Revision Plan.

Additionally, two Workforce Advisory Board members reviewed the assessments you shared at the start of your pilot. They considered the relevance of your assessments to workforce skills, scenarios, and contexts, as well as the clarity of criteria for success and stated learning objectives. They were invited to note what skills or contexts are missing based on their own experiences in the field. Their feedback is anonymous. If you would like to learn about their professional background, please email the Project Manager. If you want to look more closely at the details of the Workforce Advisory Board feedback, you can read the Workforce Advisory Board Assessment Feedback: ID Summary + Action Items document in your Google Folder.

Your Instructional Designer will provide three revision questions for you to consider based on external feedback. The revision questions from your Instructional Designer will guide the revision priorities you set together. Some of the most important feedback includes direct quotes from students about their experience in your course or recommendations from practitioners in the field. Because our student experience surveys and Workforce Advisory Board forms were designed with the project’s Criteria for Success in Course Design, this feedback will be directly actionable.

Licenses and Attributions for Creating a Course Revision Action Plan

Open content, original

“Creating a Course Revision Action Plan” by Open Oregon Educational Resources is licensed under CC BY 4.0.

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