Category: Exploration

OTL 301 – Post 4

At this early stage in my career as a new OL faculty member I do not know any other faculty members and have been unable to interview someone.  I feel this is actually a shortcoming of the OLFM new hire / orientation process and although I am vaguely aware I am splitting the marking assignments with another OLFM for my course, I do not know who they are or what their experience might be.  It would be beneficial to at least make contact with another OLFM and it will be something I pursue after completion of this course.

I look forward to becoming more knowledgeable in the processes, pitfalls and opportunities of online learning once students start taking the course.

OTL301 – Post 3

I have designed several courses as a safety consultant, including a course in due diligence.  The stated learning outcomes for the course included:

  • Raise awareness of what constitutes due diligence
  • Raise awareness of the requirements for due diligence

To achieve the overall outcomes, several secondary outcomes were also stated, including:

  • identification of mechanisms in place within the student’s organization to facilitate due diligence
  • prove (or disprove) due diligence for a scenario

Learning activities included:

  • looking up relevant safety legislation
  • comparing company requirements to regulatory requirements
  • using a scenario and learnings from the 2 previous activities to prove (or disprove) due diligence for a scenario

 

OTL 301 – Post 1

I am the newest OLFM for the OCHS 3511: Occupational Health and Safety Legislation and Standards course.  As a Canadian Registered Safety Professional and owner of a safety consultancy with nearly 15 years of experience in safety, this course is a good fit for me.

Although I have done several e-learning training sessions, all were very short and were rather simplistic.  All were a token effort at providing training to people and while all achieved their goal of passing on information, they were easily manipulated by skipping steps or components and challenging quizzes and tests to show knowledge retention.

These OTL courses are the first “real” courses I’ve taken using an e-learning platform and I find them both frustrating and valuable.  The effective parts of these courses are the clear layout and navigation and reasonably clear instructions on the exercises for each lesson.  I like the ability to easily see and track my progress.

I find WordPress very frustrating to navigate at times and I would find someone with experience to help me figure it out next time.  I am not yet confident in working with WordPress and that experience, along with other competing priorities, has made sitting down to complete the exercises a challenge at times. Although a peer cohort was set for completing these course I found it difficult, especially at first, to find posts from my peers, and as a non-facilitated course there was little to no interaction amongst members of the cohort.