So, I'm sitting in a Baldridge training today (again), and the presenter is showing us how to create a class mission statement (again), and I begin wondering if a mission statement would work in an online course.
I'm not knocking mission statements or Baldridge training. I think mission statements do the trick for getting students and teachers relating about why they are spending about 180 hours together. Will it work in the online course?
There are specific processes for developing a mission statement: all stakeholders have a voice, usually in the form of a post-it note; ideas are shared; the majority is represented; clarification of the components (what will be learned, who will be involved in the learning, and what is required to learn the material) occurs.
How can this process be paralleled online? Will it help foster a sense of community? Will it help those struggling students understand why we're here? Will it help the instructor recognize if some material/assignments are irrelevant?
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