ABSTRACT
The Master of Education program is a fully online degree that includes 5 concentrations: higher education administration, learning and instruction, eLearning and instructional design, special education, and learning analytics. It enrolls approximately 300 students. The learning sequence in the capstone course deploys the Catalyst design principles to engage students in three linked forms of meaning-making: Inquiry, Reflection and Integration. At the outset of the course, the annotated curriculum and self-assessment exercise known as the Personal Competency Model (PCM) helps students step back to examine their entire program experience and growth, to see their previous coursework as more than the sum of its parts. The PCM exercise reinforces students’ memories of the seminal authors, research, and big ideas that they have investigated during the program and helps students take stock of the capabilities they have developed. There is heightened interest among faculty now that they have viewed exemplary PoP Case Studies and Professional Portfolios.
