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Giving myself 96%

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I launched my SPAN 1412 with OER materials this past semester.  Whew.  It was an adventure. I knew launching the course with these materials would be a challenge.  I wasn't sure if the students would learn the information needed to go on with SPAN 2311 with me or at another institution. I was nervous--we went over challenging material that they needed to master. The good news is that it was a success.  I learned a few lessons: *I'm a great teacher face to face.  I saw that my face to face section did better on concepts on quizzes than my online section.   While celebrating that face to face was going well I had to figure out how to make my online course better. *I added grades for watching select lecture videos.   A dual credit student last spring told me if I expect students to watch a video a grade has to be tied to it.  Yuck.  I resist that but I accept it.   I created concept review videos (less than 4 minutes) that st...