FIT Project

Working with my group on the FIT project, I am able to step out of the box and look at the current course set up. Throughout the semester, I have voiced my frustrations with the class: feeling like I'm not really doing anything because of restrictions placed by the instructor and feeling like the students don't really participate. Working on the project, I'm looking at the course structure as the cause of the latter problem in stead of faulting the students themselves. I think that they are hindered by the delivery methods used in the class. For it being an emerging technologies class, very little emerging technology is used in it. The class relies on asynchronous discussion boards with PowerPoint Presentations and class discussions. I think that using other methods of content deployment like video, podcasts, Wimba, etc. would increase class participation. I think that the students would also get more out of an emerging technology class if they were actually using the technology.