PTA130 Redesign Process

Colleen Kelemen

eLearning & Development

SYLLABUS REVIEW

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Findings

• Inconsistencies between wording in syllabus & Canvas course
• No goals or objectives in document
• Multiple fonts throughout
• Sentences were wordy & indirect
• Project details & rubric unclear

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SYLLABUS REVIEW

Suggestions

• Overall
• Review & edit for consistent, direct writing throughout
• Apply Georgia font to whole document
• Add link leading to goals & objectives document

SYLLABUS REVIEW

Suggestions

• Course description
• Rewrite into future tense
• Should include overall course goals
• Course specific policies
• Make simplified & direct
• Have PTA department decide if more content should be added

SYLLABUS REVIEW

Suggestions

• Review & edit course outcomes
• Decide on consistent wording between syllabus & Canvas
• Chapters or Units?
• Topics covered within course schedule
• More details about this in Misaligned Titles-Chapters document

SYLLABUS REVIEW

Suggestions

• PTA130 Medication Project
• Simplify directions
• Reorganize rubrics to be more user friendly

SYLLABUS REVIEW

SYLLABUS REVIEW

Connections

• Consistency in formatting, headings, section, fonts, etc.
• Schema Theory
• Sets base level of knowledge that can be related to information in other settings

SYLLABUS REVIEW

Connections

• Schema Theory
• Courses using updated syllabus format helps students make sense of new content by supplying the expectations and frameworks for action
• IE: Easily finding details in any course syllabus

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GOALS/OBJECTIVES REVIEW

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Findings

• Many objectives
• 140 total-sometimes 10 per unit
• Were written to fulfill CAPTE requirement
• Most missing condition & criteria
• No course goals
• Some objectives can work as course goals (broad and general)

GOALS/OBJECTIVES REVIEW

(Brainstorm, 2022)

Suggestions

• eLearning team rewrote objectives to include condition and criteria
• PTA department
• Review objectives & pare down to 4-5 per chapter
• Rewrite objectives to fit condition, behavior, criteria format
• February 2023: Write goals for course

GOALS/OBJECTIVES REVIEW

(Brainstorm, 2022)

Connections

• Review, rewrite goals & objectives
• Were written after to fulfill CAPTE
• Backward Design
• Identify desired result (from beginning)
• Build goals & objectives faculty find appropriate for content students should know
• Build engaging content & activities to attain course goals

GOALS/OBJECTIVES REVIEW

COURSE ALIGNMENT MAPPING

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Description

• Document that represents how instructor intends to teach & assess learning goals & objectives identified for the course
• Includes:
• Course goals
• Learning objectives
• Resources
• Assignments/assessments
• PTA130 Course Alignment Map

COURSE ALIGNMENT MAPPING

Findings

• Organized current content to have visual of how course is intended to be taught
• After first map:
• Need for course specific goals
• Too many objectives per chapter
• Opportunity for more active learning, assignments, & activities

COURSE ALIGNMENT MAPPING

Findings

• After first map:
• Decent amount of video resources
• Very limited use of PhysioU in PTA130
• PhysioU: interactive application that includes simulations & interactive learning, instructional videos, & more resources
• Content is updating & expanding

COURSE ALIGNMENT MAPPING

(PhysioU, 2022)

Suggestions

• Create course specific goals
• Some current objectives were revised into goals
• Pare down chapter objectives
• Goal: 4-5 each chapter

COURSE ALIGNMENT MAPPING

Suggestions

• Implement more active learning activities/discussions
• Suggestions in final version of course map

COURSE ALIGNMENT MAPPING

Suggestions

• Potential to utilize PhysioU more in PTA130
• Have PTA dept. explore app to find videos/mini apps that are appropriate for the course
• Case studies; study resource, etc.

COURSE ALIGNMENT MAPPING

(PhysioU, 2022)

Connections

• Backward Design
• Visual opportunity to ensure instruction, assessments, activities, & resources align to goals & objectives set at beginning
• Stage 1: Identify desired result (from beginning)
• Build goals & objectives faculty find appropriate for content students should know

COURSE ALIGNMENT MAPPING

Connections

• Backward Design
• Stage 2
• Build assessments that will demonstrate student knowledge of content from stage 1
• Stage 3
• Build engaging content, activities, & instructional strategies that align to goals & objectives

COURSE ALIGNMENT MAPPING

PLAN OF INTERVENTION

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Description

• Detailed document with suggestions to create a course that implements more active learning
• Document includes:
• Weekly module details
• Goals, objectives, & lecture content
• Suggested activities & assignments
• Sequence & structure for pacing of classes

PLAN OF INTERVENTION

Findings

• PTA130 is lecture heavy with strong reliance on PowerPoints
• Need for more interactive & active learning options
• Make course more engaging & better at simulating “real life”
• Improve student performance through practice & repetition

PLAN OF INTERVENTION

Findings

• Need for more interactive & active learning options
• Use to break apart lecture/reduce reliance on PowerPoint slides
• Facilitates better student engagement

PLAN OF INTERVENTION

Suggestions

• Plan of Intervention provides suggestions of how to:
• Implement interactive & active learning into the class

PLAN OF INTERVENTION

Suggestions

• Document illustrates parts of course broken down by weekly module:
• Goals & objectives
• Content of instruction in detail
• Detailed descriptions of active learning suggestions
• Duties of the students
• Sequence & module structure
• How class components are outlined for each day

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PLAN OF INTERVENTION

Connections

• Merrill’s Principles of Instruction
• Opportunities to apply content
• Use activities, discussions, case studies, interactive learning
• Use real world associations
• Task/Problem Centered
• Use real life examples, simulations, stories to incorporate content

PLAN OF INTERVENTION

Connections

• Merrill’s Principles of Instruction
• Application
• Interactive problem solving & task performance (case studies/activities)
• Integration
• Opportunities to integrate & demonstrate new knowledge into learner’s life
• IE: projects, case studies, clinical practice

PLAN OF INTERVENTION

ACTIVE LEARNING

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Findings

• Course currently is lecture heavy with limited to no active learning activities
• Needs analysis suggests use of:
• Case studies
• Canvas discussions
• Active learning activities
• More opportunities for student interaction

ACTIVE LEARNING

Suggestions

• Formulate 1 activity & 1 discussion per chapter
• Work with K. Thompson to identify activities that would work best for students

ACTIVE LEARNING

Test Environment

• Created 1 matching activity based on discussion with K. Thompson
• Conducted informal test in class setting
• Definition review for “Foundations of Electric Stimulation…”
• Completed short user acceptance testing
• Activity will be edited based on student feedback

ACTIVE LEARNING

Connections

• Backward Design
• Stage 3:
• Create activities/active learning that reinforce goals & objectives
• IE: Canvas discussions; think-pair-share; jigsaw projects
• Supply resources best for goals & objectives
• IE: videos, apps, articles

ACTIVE LEARNING

POWERPOINT DESIGN

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Findings

• Students: Slides were cluttered & difficult to follow
• Too much text
• Poor quality images
• Minimal consistency in headers, text, & image placement

POWERPOINT DESIGN

Suggestions

• eLearning team redesigns 3 chapters of PTA130 slide decks
• Use redesigned slide decks to teach instructor better strategies for
• Slide layout
• Design
• Information architecture

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POWERPOINT DESIGN

Suggestions

• Summer 2022:
• PTA130 Instructor redesigns 2 slide decks using feedback from eLearning team member
• March 2023:
• Redesign all other PTA130 PowerPoints to be ready for July 2023 term

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POWERPOINT DESIGN

Test Environment

• Instructor presented redesigned PowerPoints during Summer 2022 term
• Received positive feedback on:
• Overall cleanliness of layout
• Easier to follow through lecture
• Less text on each slide
• Consistent formatting on slides

POWERPOINT DESIGN

Connections

• Mayer’s 12 Principles of Multimedia
• Coherence Principle
• Learn best when extraneous, distracting material is not included
• Refine slide deck to contain simple text & visuals that are necessary to help comprehension
• “Need to know” vs. “Nice to know” content

POWERPOINT DESIGN

Connections

• Mayer’s 12 Principles of Multimedia
• Signaling Principle
• Learn best when shown exactly what to pay attention to on screen
• Animating bullet pointed text in slide deck
• Title slides to separation sections

POWERPOINT DESIGN

Connections

• Mayer’s 12 Principles of Multimedia
• Temporal Contiguity Principle
• Learn best when words & visuals are presented together
• Related text & visuals on same slide

POWERPOINT DESIGN

Connections

• Mayer’s 12 Principles of Multimedia
• Segmenting Principle
• Learn best when information is presented in segments
• Dividing slide deck into sections
• Presenting content gradually through animation of bulleted text

POWERPOINT DESIGN

Connections

• Mayer’s 12 Principles of Multimedia
• Multimedia Principle
• Learn best from words & pictures than with just words alone
• Use images in slide decks that enhance/clarify content

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POWERPOINT DESIGN

PLAN OF EVALUATION

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Description

• Document detailing planned steps of evaluation from pre-instruction through post instruction
• eLearning team’s processes to test success of implemented course

PLAN OF EVALUATION

Pre-Instruction

• Student Interviews
• Gauge prior knowledge & education
• Create more complete picture of student population
• Leads to better recommendations for student growth

PLAN OF EVALUATION

Pre-Instruction

• Medical terminology Test-out
• Students struggle with medical terms
• Use test to assess prior knowledge of PTA student
• Opportunity to test out or remediate with BIO112

PLAN OF EVALUATION

During Instruction

• Instructor Interviews
• Comfortability with Canvas
• Implementing activities/assignments
• Student & instructor reactions
• Positives & negatives through midterm
• Discussion on how to move through rest of term

PLAN OF EVALUATION

Post Instruction

• Student Interviews
• Same students from pre-instruction
• Watermark course surveys
• Instructor Interviews
• Similar to midterm questions

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PLAN OF EVALUATION

Formative Evaluation

• Rapid prototyping
• Canvas course redesign
• Activities for in class testing
• Plan of Intervention
• Presents activity options for PTA130
• Build & test 2-3 activities in class
• Survey students after activity
• Refine based on feedback

PLAN OF EVALUATION

Formative Evaluation

• Usability testing
• Have students & instructor test prototypes through each iteration
• Apply feedback to next prototype & final product

PLAN OF EVALUATION

Summative Evaluation

• Collect answers to evaluation questions
• Data collection
• Comparative analysis
• Compare pre- & post-instruction data
• Measuring qualitative & quantitative successes

PLAN OF EVALUATION

Connections (Canvas Prototyping)

• Connectivism
• Digital technology brings people together-creates new learning opportunities
• Canvas rebuild provides framework & tools to build PTA130 knowledge
• Provides opportunities to communicate & work with others
• IE: group assignments; discussions; chat

PLAN OF EVALUATION

Connections (Instruction)

• Dick & Carey Instructional Model
• Similar concepts to A.D.D.I.E. (Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, Evaluation)
• Stage 3 (Analyzing Learners)
• Student & Instructor interviews
• Medical terminology test-out

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PLAN OF EVALUATION

Connections (Instruction)

• Dick & Carey Instructional Model
• Stage 8 (Formative Evaluation)
• Evaluate if changes improved student engagement, content retention, grades, etc.
• Stage 9 (Summative Evaluation)
• Use post instruction interviews to revise course for next run

PLAN OF EVALUATION

WORKS CITED

Brainstorm, edit and review services for college entrance essays. (n.d.). Next Chapter. Retrieved August 8, 2022, from https://planthenextchapter.com/college-essays/

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PhysioU: Top-rated Physical Therapy educational software | Make learning easy. (n.d.). PhysioU. Retrieved January 3, 2023, from https://www.physiou.health/

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