Final Assessments

Final Essay (25% of final grade) - Personal Learning Charter

Due date: August 13th, 2023, 10pm GMT

Your first final assessment for Optimizing Your Learning is to use all the lessons learned and reflections you have carried out throughout the course to create your personal learning charter. Your learning charter will contain seven sections, which are listed below. In each section, you will respond to the prompts given below.

Personal Learning Charter Prompts:

  • 1 - Who Am I
    • Describe your core, chosen, and given identities, and discuss how they influence how you approach learning?
  • 2 - My Learning Beliefs
    • What are your key beliefs about how learning happens?
    • What is one limiting or empowering belief that you have about how you learn?
  • 3 - My Learning Motivations
    • What intrinsic and extrinsic factors motivate you to learn?
  • 4 - My Learning Goals and Implementation Intentions
    • What are some knowledge/skills that you wish to acquire in the next 12 months? (Share between 3 - 5)
    • For each knowledge/skill, what is one associated S.M.A.R.T. goal that you would like to achieve?
    • For each S.M.A.R.T. goal, what is one implementation intention that you can use to achieve your goals?
  • 5 - My Strengths and Weaknesses
    • What are your learning strengths?
    • What are your learning weaknesses?
  • 6 - My Learning Tools and Resource System
    • What learning strategies will you use to achieve your learning goals? (select 2-4 strategies and describe how you will implement them).
  • 7 - My Learning Metrics and Milestones System
    • Answer the following questions for one of your learning goals:
      • What does success in learning look like to you?
      • How will you measure your learning progress towards success? What are some intermediary milestones?

The total word count for this essay is 1000-2000 words, and your grade on this assessment counts towards 25% of your final grade for this course.

Please use the seven sections listed above as the subheadings of your personal learning charter. Under each subheading, you should include your written response to the relevant prompt.

Submission

Please save your learning charter as a pdf and submit it on Gradescope, then upload a copy to the Woolf platform.

Final Presentation (25% of final grade) - Self-Directed Learning

Due date: August 13th, 2023, 10pm GMT

Your second final assessment is your self-directed learning project. Note that you have been working on this project since week 2 by completing the "Final Presentation Milestones''. Your goal for the project was to select a topic to learn about, create and implement a learning plan, create a video lesson that teaches the topic to the rest of your classmates, and evaluate and reflect on the overall experience.

The milestones for this project were as follows:

  • Week 2: Milestone 1 (Planning) - Pick your topic, set your specific learning goals, and create a plan and schedule for how you will achieve your learning goals.

  • Week 3: Milestone 2 (Monitoring) - Carry out your learning plan and monitor your progress.

  • Week 4: Milestone 3 (Evaluation 1) - Create your video lesson on your chosen topic.

  • Week 5: Milestone 4 (Evaluation 2) - Evaluate the quality of your learning, and reflect on the learning experience.

Milestone 4 Instructions

Self-Evaluation Directions

Your learning self-evaluation should answer the following questions:

  • How well did you achieve your learning goals?
  • How satisfied are you with the final video lesson that you produced? Why or why not?
  • How effective was the learning plan that you created for Milestone 1? Did you end up deviating from the plan? If so, in what ways?
  • When learning, what did you do that worked well, and what did you do that didn’t work well?

Learning Experience Reflection

Use Gibbs' Reflective Cycle to reflect on your SDL experience. Remember to include all 6 steps of Gibbs' Cycle: Description, Feelings, Evaluation, Analysis, Conclusion, and Action Plan.

Final SDL Submission

You will need to submit the following by the deadline:

1 - Your learning plan (Milestone 1)

2 - Your learning self-evaluation (Milestone 4) [Note: Ensure your submission answers all the questions asked in the "Self-Evaluation Directions" section above]

3 - A written reflection on the learning experience (Milestone 4) [Note: Ensure your submission uses Gibbs' Reflective Cycle and includes all components of this model. The notes on Gibbs' model can be found in Lesson 4.5 (Grow Through Reflection)]

4 - A video lesson on your SDL topic (Milestone 3) [Note: Ensure your video is in line with the instructions given on the Final Milestone 3 page]

Please create one pdf with all the written components of the submission (numbers 1 - 3), and submit it on Gradescope. For the video (number 4), you can upload the video to your Google Drive and include the link where indicated in Gradescope. Once you have uploaded your submissions to Gradescope, please also upload them to the Woolf platform.