This course involves a series of Community Updates (in addition to “Admin Updates”) that will help prepare you for your course project and reflect on the peer review process.
You are encouraged to use the scholarly sources you find for your individual community updates in your project submission.
Basic Details
What to Include
In addition to the specific Update Prompts provided below, your updates should include the following:
- Title: The Update title should include the related project update # and a brief, yet descriptive title.
- Words: Each update should be 250 words or more that address the update prompts outlined below
- Scholarly Sources: Refer to the update prompts below
- Media: Include at least one media element (e.g., images of figures or tables, embedded video with captioned source), and web links to relevant sources. If you have a PDF of the academic article or book, include that in the update.
When to Post Them
- In preparation for your project to be submitted for peer review, you will complete four community updates (not admin update responses) in the course community.
- After you finish your work and complete the peer review process, you will submit one additional community update in the course community.
| Task | Spring A Deadline by 11 p.m. Central Time | Spring B Deadline by 11 p.m. Central Time |
|---|---|---|
| Individual Community Updates 1 through 4 completed | one or two per week through February 5 | one or two per week through April 2 |
| Work Request Sent via CGScholar | January 31 | March 28 |
| Project Due for Peer Review | February 12 | April 9 |
| Peer Reviews Due | February 19 | April 16 |
| Revisions Due for TA and Instructor Review | February 26 | April 23 |
| Individual Community Update 5 completed | February 26 | April 23 |
| Final Revisions Due prior to Final; Grading Deadline | March 5 | April 30 |
Where to Post Them
- Post the community updates in the Course Community of CGScholar, not on your personal profile page. You will find the ‘Updates’ menu behind the name of the community.
- Notice: Updates on your personal profile page are not captured by the Analytics, whereas updates from the community page go to all community members and contribute to your Analytics score for the course.
Community Update Prompts
Project Update 1: Select a topic for your major peer-reviewed project in this course (Due end of Week 1)
Project Update 1: Select a topic for your major peer-reviewed project in this course. Look ahead through the future weeks of the course as laid out in its learning module. Your topic must connect with the concerns of the course. In this update, describe your project focus to the other participants in the course community, explain why you have chosen this particular topic, and provide an introduction to what you consider to be the leading literature on this topic including citations of three key texts, and connect if possible to the Kalantzis and Cope texts provided in Update 1B and other Kalantzis and Cope texts provided at newlearningonline.com. Be sure to cite the works you have reviewed formally. Give at least two other peers feedback on their chosen topics, with a focus on constructive suggestions.
Before you start, see “Choosing a Topic and Project Type” on the Educational Theory and Practice page.
Project Update 2: Education Theory (Due end of Week 2)
Project Update 2: Education Theory: Researching your topic, what are you finding about its education theory? Provide references with formal citations to at least three pieces of scholarly work, as well as videos, infographics and other media you might find. Comment on at least two other peers’ updates whose topics may connect with yours, directly or indirectly. How is your thinking developing? Feel free to allow your topic to evolve, even into something quite different from what you originally intended!
Project Update 3: Education Theory, The Critics (Due end of Week 2)
Project Update 3: Education Theory, The Critics: Researching further into your topic, who are the critics of this education theory? Provide references with formal citations to at least three pieces of scholarly work. Comment on at least two other peers’ updates whose topics may connect with yours, directly or indirectly. How is your thinking developing? Feel free to allow your topic to evolve, even into something quite different from what you originally intended!
Project Update 4, Education Practices (Due end of Week 3)
Project Update 4, Education Practices: How do the key ideas in your chosen topic translate successfully into education practice? What are the challenges facing the those who try to translate the ideas you have been addressing into education practice? Provide references with formal citations to at least three pieces of evidence-based research, as well as videos, infographics and other media you might find. Comment on at least two other peers’ updates whose topics may connect with yours, directly or indirectly. How is your thinking developing?
Update 5: Peer Collaboration Reflection (Due end of Week 6)
Update 5: Peer Collaboration Reflection: After participating in the peer review process in the current course, both as a reviewer and as a creator who has received feedback, what was your experience? What went well? What could have gone better? How did the peer review process impact your revision? What lessons will you take for your own peer review practice about the most effective forms of peer collaboration? Comment on at least two other community members’ experiences.