Thank You 2010 MAT Students

I was invited to talk with the class of 2010 MAT students at the Marlboro College Graduate School last night and I have to say that the work this group is involved with is pretty amazing. Caleb Clark, the MAT program director, is steering the cohort in the right direction. Okay, I realize that’s a purely subjective statement but he has them using Word Press MU, Jing, Skype, Moodle, and a ton of other free and open source technologies. He also told me that they are adopting Google Apps next year which is wonderful. Couple their work with emerging technologies and assignments that ask students to build out the ADDIE instructional design model and you have the bedrock for a great MAT program. Kudos to you and your students, Caleb.

I was asked some great questions including one about how we assess our AT events. The answer is that we do individual follow-ups to ask about progress and to answer logistical and technical questions. More often than not, this blossoms into a rich conversation about how to best achieve a curricular objective. One of the MAT students chimed in with a wonderful suggestion: why not connect the participants to a wikki so that the conversation could be ongoing and serve as a resource for them (and others) after the event. By using this “social approach” it reinforces the idea that sharing is a real way to get answers and ideas.

Yes! This idea is easy to implement and potentially very effective. KSC AT is using this technique for our next series of programming.

So, thank you 2010 MAT-ers!

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