Course Overview:
Assisting students in assessing their learning styles, time management
and study skills habits, as well as their career interests can be a daunting task. This three-week course will examine online self-assessment tools that can be used to help students begin the self-discovery process. The course will concentrate on evaluating the quality and usefulness of information from identified websites and integrating these resources into student services work. Course discussions will center on utilization of the Internet to enhance student success. This course is designed for those in direct services Student Affairs positions.
Course Outline:
Participants will be encouraged to explore identified web sites that might be used to enhance student success. The instructor will provide access to websites that she has created or to web based self-assessment tools. Participants will discuss various issues related to encouraging students to use self-help tools. Using Internet resources in the context of our work is relatively new. While it provides great possibilities, it also presents significant challenges. These topics will be explored in depth on the Discussion Board where we will "come together" at times convenient to you, for what I hope will be a thought provoking interchange.
Learning Outcomes:
Upon completion of this course, active participants will:
- Understand how to integrate self-assessment instruments into their work with students
- Identify ways and practice evaluating and validating information from the Internet
- Learn models for evaluating self help instruments
- Explore online self-help resources for time management, study skills, learning styles, stress management, procrastination, relationships, and career/college major decision-making
- Identify concerns with using these tools at a distance
- Develop an activity that integrates a self-assessment tool into your work with students
Expectations of Participants:
Participants should expect to devote about 5 hours during each week of this three weeks course in order to read the online materials, fully participate in the online discussions and submit the online assignments. The final project for the course is to develop an Internet self-help activity that is appropriate for your setting.
This will be administered as an asynchronous class which means participants can log on whenever they wish and whatever location they have Internet access. The Discussion Board is the focus of online learning in this course. There will be no "real time" meetings for this course. On the Discussion Board, we will spend time pondering the benefits and challenges presented by the availability of online self-assessment tools. Active participation will significantly enhance the learning experience and help bring the course material to life. Participation in the online discussion is critical to your success in the class and is expected of each student.
Individuals registering for CEUs will receive 1.0 CEU upon successful
completion of the course.
Instructor Bio:
Anita Crawley has over seventeen years experience as a community college counselor working at various times as a Career Counselor, Academic Advisor and in New Student Orientation. With an early interest in technology to enhance the work of student services professionals, she developed seminars, online courses, and web-based tools for use with students. She has taught an online Career Development course since 1999. Along with counseling and related duties, she has developed the Online Student Services Center and the Orientation to Online Learning Workshop for the Illinois Virtual Campus and is an online teacher online for several organizations. Anita served as Acting Coordinator of Online Learning and Coordinator of Technology for Student Affairs before relocating to the east coast. She is now a Distance Learning Counselor at Montgomery College.
Anita has earned a certificate from the UCLA Extension Online Teaching Program and is completing work on a M.A in Educational Technology Leadership from George Washington University. She also earned a M.A. in Counseling and Human Development.
