Melisa Hippolyte

EDID6511: Facilitating & Managing Learning

This was the eleventh of eleven(11) core courses I undertook in the MSc in Instructional Design and Technology.  In this course, we had four major tasks, for the first one we were given a case and we had to identify unique risks and potential resolutions for a project (Push Pop Press is seeking to create the Next Generation of Digital Books).  For the second task we had to outline a project, then we had to create a plan to execute the project as described.  The plan had to outline the main details of the project including our contingencies and risks.  Although it was an individual project we were in groups to offer assistance to each other. The project plan included the following plans in detail, a project charter, a scope management plan, a time, risk, cost, communication, stakeholder and human resource management plan. For this course, we also had a team project where we had to identify a part of the prescribed textbook and propose a revision to the information, identify and create a submission to replace the existing information and then write a proposal. The final task for this course was a participation report in which we had to highlight postings in which we offered assistance, responded to questions, responded to peers and opposed peers.

This course and EDID6509 - Designing Learning and Performance Solutions were the two most taxing and frustrating of all the courses, even though we were in a group for this one, our inexperience showed, since we could not trust our judgment on the course matter, it proved very difficult to offer assistance to each other, but that being said, it was one of the courses that brought us closer together as we tried to keep each other motivated to successfully complete this course.

One artefact that displays as evidence of my experience is