2013 Annual Conference
November 5–8, 2013
Lexington, KY
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Designing, Developing and Assessing Online Intra-collegiate Earth Charter Projects: Focus on Diversity
Type of Presentation
Shared
Session Abstract
This session describes an online project involving three courses across two colleges at Florida Gulf Coast University that focused on the Earth Charter, particularly on its principles related to diversity.
Target Audience
This session would be of value to educators interested in learning about a collaborative online project which focused on issues related to the Earth Charter, in this case, on diversity. Course instructors and administrators who would like to implement/have implemented such an assignment would find this session worthwhile.
Learning Outcomes
Participants will leave the session with a clear understanding of the following strategies for designing a rich and meaningful collaborative online learning project using effective communication tools: Prompt and frequent instructor-student communication; student use of a variety of communication and collaboration tools (Google Docs, Facebook, discussion forums, online chat rooms, survey tools, texting, etc.); instructor modeling; a structured research process including the development of a research paper, an activity, and a presentation (poster, academic paper); and, a project management methodology in which team-member roles and responsibilities are clearly explained.
Session Description
This session describes a comprehensive assignment in which students from the instructors' three classes worked collaboratively on projects that focused on the Earth Charter, particularly on its principles related to diversity. The project focused on Principles 1- 3 and 8 -16 of the Earth Charter related to diversity and culminated in each of twenty-two teams completing an undergraduate research paper, an activity to implement the research, and a research poster for presentation on Research Day held on April 20, 2012 at FGCU. Surveys were administered to the students during the first week of the course before the project began and as the project ended to determine their awareness and knowledge of one to two principles of the Earth Charter related to diversity. Overall, the results of the project were encouraging and the instructors have continued to offer online collaborative Earth Charter Diversity projects to their first year students.
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Wednesday November 6
Primary Presenter
Mark Simpson, EdD, Florida Gulf Coast University
Work Title
Associate Professor
Additional Presenters: Enters in Order.
Sheila Bolduc-Simpson, MA, Florida Gulf Coast University
Work Title
Instructor II