Development Plan

If I knew, I wouldn't be doing this.... :-)

Okay, okay. Learning more about how to set up problem-based learning in an Intro to IS context would be valuable. To some extent, I don't really see how to do it; again, so much of the course is simply learning vocabulary. Sitting down and talking for a while with an expert in the domain would help.

For instance, I did get a chance to chat about the problem with our instructor for the "designing instruction" day, and she had an excellent suggestion that I had not considered. Rather than presenting a case and then asking the class at large for answers, I put them into groups, and had the group come up with answers; and then I asked each of the groups for their answers. This overcomes a lot of the students' reluctance to appear wrong in front of their peers, and has helped a good deal. Again, something I would never have thought of; I'm a loner tech geek who was never afraid to answer publicly. I was the student that always had their hand up. So it's hard for me to figure out what would work for the others.

So, to a large extent, my plan is exactly what I'm doing: follow the pedagogical certificate, take advantage of any training sessions I can, and seek out comment from others whenever I can.