Final course> Blog entry task: Share your thoughts on the challenge ahead of you as you move to implement in digital form the course you designed last trimester.
The challenge ahead of me is rather difficult as I must both write, design and build the course from almost nothing. I have recently moved universities (3 months ago) and am taking to shell that I created in the design class and altering it to be applicable to school aged children with disabilities, rather than children with just physical disabilities. I will now include some Autism and behavioural issues to appeal to a wider range of occupational therapists. I now work for a university that has campuses in four countries and so there is a diverse potential group of participants. Mainly the students will be graduating OT’s from Australia and Malaysia. As a full time worker with three small children and only limited understanding of digital capabilities I have my work cut out for me. The course will run in 2010—March through June and so there is plenty of time. The course content so far described (see final project document), will stay the same.
Briefly describe the course you are constructing and indicate why you want to put it online.
This is a class now titled: Occupational therapy for school aged children with a disability. I have designed this using a mentorship model so that it will support and extend practicing occupational therapists to work with children with disabilities in schools. This means that weekly tasks will include application to real situations and assignments that require direct experience/authentic assessment. OT’s are generally not technical or up to date with online learning and so luring them into the class will be difficult
1. How will your students benefit from having materials online?
They will be able to work and apply material directly to their daily work, whilst getign a subject towards a Masters in Health Sciences.
2. What problems you foresee in moving content online?
Creating the content in the first place! Another issue will be learning how ot utilize soft ware to create the content. I’d really like to be both competent and confident at the end of this course.
3. Briefly describe the course you are constructing and indicate why you want to put it online.
This is a 13 week course for OT’s that will look at: Evaluation; intervention; evidence; techniques associated with best practice occupational therapy as applied to children with Autism, cerebral palsy and other most common childhood disabilities. The course is currently under review by the academic board at Monash University. I will provide that document to assist with the course description as soon as it is approved.
Helen Bourke-Taylor
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