2007 ANGEL IMPACT Awards - Exemplary ANGEL Course

Award Recipient

SUNY Empire State College
HDV-283654 Learning and Memory
Saratoga Springs, NY

Contributors

Fabio Chacon, Ph.D. Course Author and Coordinator of Curriculum and Instructional Design; Ronnie Mather, Ph.D., Area Coordinator for Psychology; Carolyn Maroney, Collaboration on “Nuts&Bolts” documents

Program Description

Empire State College’s upper level Learning and Memory course expertly exploits ANGEL functionality to deliver a pedagogically sound online course that encompasses sound instructional design principles and best practices for teaching online courses. Excellent course design merited this ANGEL course a 2007 ANGEL IMPACT Award.

Every element of course design contributes to the course’s high quality. Thorough information for the student covering major course aspects also includes 16 “Nuts&Bolts” documents that familiarize the user with ANGEL. The variety of methodologies used – course documents written as a dialog, extensive use of images and video, virtual experiments, more than 100 links, strategies for staged discussion in each course module – enhances learning. The course emphasizes teaching presence with icebreakers, regular course announcements, discussion facilitation, feedback on assignments, virtual office hours and more to engage students. Assessment is scheduled, authentic and accessible (with instructor comments) in the ANGEL gradebook.