A Brief Preview of Things to Come

PQAPA

• Program Quality Assurance Process Audit– 2008/09– Academic and Operational– Fall 2007 Launch– 18 months to 2 year – Self Assessment– Reports– Audit – site visit with program spot checks

Orientation – On the Road to Success

• Academic Preparation and Orientation• Sept 4 – 7

– Common sessions re: student success– Introductory classes with professors– Social orientation

• Mandatory for all students• Address 15 weeks, Monday start• Course outlines and Learning Plans introduced

Program Reviews

• Official – every 5 years

• Departmental– Mapping – baseline data – Internal update yearly – Program Quality Assurance & Enhancement

• Cultural integration

Course Outline Policy

• Communicating expectations to learners

• Providing a common perspective for those teaching the course

• Facilitating processes relating to PLA, advanced standing, articulation, placement, transfer of credit, appeals, accreditation, and quality assurance

• Planning course and program resources

• Scheduling

• Coordinating student assessments

• Specifying the relationship of course outcomes to standards.

Course Outline Policy

• Employ standard outline format

• Uniform procedures for creation, approval, maintenance, storage, retrieval and distribution

• Professor – design, revision, updating, individualizing instruction

• One master course outline, outcomes based

• Review with students enrolled in course

• Students will be able to access past course outlines as long as they retain their MoCoMotion account

Course Outlines on MoCoMotion

• Pilot Project – Winter 2007

– On-line Course Outline Repository using Banner

– Based on Mapping format

– Testing & Moving Forward

• Course Outline Steering Committee

• Policies & Procedures

• Approvals

Course Outlines for 2007/08

• Standard Outlines for all courses

• Course “ownership”

• Texts / Assessments common for clusters

• FRED

• Program numbers

• Access to MoCoMotion Course Outlines

On-Line Demo

The Learning Plan

“New” Course Outlines

• Outcome based (3-5 outcomes)• One outline per course to be used by all faculty• “Built to last” versus yearly revisions• Linked to standards

Course Outlines to Learning Plan

• Faculty concerns re: “new” outlines

– students – need to know weekly expectations

– new faculty/PT faculty - need to know what to teach

Learning Plan• Developed to provide students with:

– Faculty contact information

– Weekly learning activities re: content, homework, readings, assignments

– The ability to plan their schedules accordingly,

• No more “But, I didn’t know there was an assignment” excuses.

Well, theoretically!

Learning Plan

Developed during May/June to:

• Allow full-time faculty to have “ownership” of courses in the POS,

• Provide new and/or part-time faculty with a learning plan developed by a more experienced faculty member who understands the broad scope of the POS.

Learning Plan• May/June development

• 2007/08 – release to students

• Align with course learning outcomes

• Faculty collaboration:

– By course

– Within POS

• Approvals?

• 2008/09 – on-line database

Learning Plan

• Faculty coordination weekly by semester– Student workload– Assignment timing– Integration of learning– Collaborative assessments

• Core courses• Service (support) courses

Learning Plan

1.0 LEARNING PLAN INFORMATION

Course Name

Course Code

Course Section(s) Could be multiple

Program Code and Name

Learning Plan Name Course Name – Program Name - Faculty Name

Learning Plan Code Pgm # - Course # - Section - Semester

Instructional Type Classroom, Computer Lab, Lab, Online

Development School

Department

Academic Year

2.0 FACULTY CONTACT INFORMATION

Faculty Name Campus/Office Phone Ext Email Address

Insert course level learning outcomes as detailed on the course outline.3.0 LEARNING OUTCOMESUpon successful completion of the course, the student will reliably

demonstrate the ability to:

LO01Produce accurate and professionally formatted selected civil litigation documents for the initial stages of legal proceedings.

LO02 Produce accurate and professionally formatted Motion Records.

LO03Produce accurate and professionally formatted documentation relating to tort and accident benefits claims in motor vehicle accident litigation files.

LO04Produce accurate and professionally formatted documentation relating to civil and criminal law proceedings covered under the Ontario Legal Aid system.

WkDate/Time/Room

Activity Type

ActivityDetails

Resource Bank

AssocLO

1Sept 4 – 7

VariousORIENTATION AND STUDENT SUCCESS INITIATIVES

semesterstart.mohawkcollege.ca

2

Tue Sept. 9

10a-12n

Rm A108

Lecture Intro to Litigation and the Ontario Court System Compare and contrast civil and criminal law Discuss contracts and torts Interpret Courts of Justice Act

Litigation Today p. 3-8

www.ontariocourt.ca LO01

Reading Pages 8 - 15 Legal Administration Workbook

Assignment Legal SimulationDue: Tue Sept 16 – 10a

www.legalsim.ca

4.0 LEARNING ACTIVITIES

Detail week-by-week (or module) basis exactly what is expected of students, including due dates.

1. ASSESSMENT

Assessment Method WeightAssociatedOutcome(s)

Test 1 – T/F, Multiple Choice 10% LO01, LO02

Test 2 – T/F, Multiple Choice 10% LO03

Legal Brief Assignment 40% LO04

Simulations 40% LO04

TOTAL 100%

• Insert Assessments with more specific detail than is in course outline.

• Course Specific Policy

6.0 COURSE SPECIFIC POLICIES

Learning Plan

• Ideally, the Learning Plan is developed:– in conjunction with the course outline, and

– in collaboration with other faculty teaching the same courses.

• Once completed, learning plans can be reviewed departmentally to help manage students’ work flow/work load through the semester.

Week / Date / Course / Assignments

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15

9/03

9/10

9/17

9/24

10/01

10/08

10/15

10/22

10/29

11/05

11/12

11/19

11/26

1203

12/10

 

ORIENTATION

                           

LL126 Communications      M     M     M       M

                             

CB172 Human Relations       M        M     M  

                             

KEYB10000 Computer Skills         TU       TU          TU

                             

OA116 Document Processing         TU        TU         TU

                             

OADM10000 Professionalism       F            F       F

                             

OADM10005 Administrative Skills         W       W         W