Category: Education
The Contest Challenge:
Design
a final class assignment that re-thinks the traditional term paper or
written exam by focusing on students’ creative manipulation
and presentation of
digital objects. Submissions should be broad enough to adapt to two or
more
courses across departments at Yale College (for example: an art history
course
and a music course; an economics course and a literature course).
Submissions
for the Educational Challenge
should include the following components:
1. Examples
of Yale courses that could benefit from the proposed assignment: course
name
and number (at least two, offered by different departments).
2. Overview
of the learning goals for each course, along with a description of the
current
final project or assessment in each course.
3. Detailed
description of your proposed final assignment, along with an indication
of how
your project will demonstrate students’ mastery of specified
learning goals for
each course. These learning goals need not be identical to
those that are
assessed in the current final project. You should also define your
rationale
for considering this new assignment an adequate replacement for or
alternative
to the current final course activity.
4. Instructional
documentation that introduces students to the assignment; describes the
format,
requirements, desired outcomes, and grading criteria for the
assignment; and
provides clear support and guidance for students undertaking the
assignment.
5. Graphical
examples of a completed final project for each course, in digital
format. Examples
should illustrate how the assignment was created and how it addresses
the
defined requirements and learning goals for each course.
Submissions
will be judged on their ability
to inspire innovative thinking and effective uses of new media to
enhance
teaching and learning at Yale, as well as their clarity of purpose
vis-à-vis
course goals and learning outcomes as articulated in the assignment
description
and supporting documentation.
The
Yale CMI2 will work with the winning
student to identify faculty members (possibly those who teach the
specified
courses, but not necessarily so restricted) who would be interested in
integrating the winning idea into future course offerings of a Yale
College.
The winner will also receive a new 8GB iPod Nano.