Well, you are now in the final days of the course and coming to the last assignments. I am looking forward to your last work in the course.
Before I address some of the issues of the last assignment, I want to encourage you to complete a student evaluation for the course. I take the evaluations very seriously and I make changes in the courses I teach to better deliver the materials to students.
Here are some of the issues you will address in the student evaluations from Towson University: All of the course learning objectives are stated in the syllabus. Here we have the TU mandated goals. Here we have the TU mandated outcomes. In addition, unit objectives are given at the top of each unit page. Each unit objective is then referenced directly to the unit assignments. This insures that there is a close alignment between the coursework requirements and the goals and outcomes mandated by Towson University.
I have spent hundreds of hours on this course developing texts, graphics, and videos for you so that do not need to pay for a textbook. I am very conscious of the cost of education and so I have also sought out Public Domain, Creative Commons, and Fair Use sources of information for the course as well. I have thus saved each of you over $100 by not requiring the purchase of a textbook.
By now you should understand the value I place on technology as a means for the delivery of educational materials. My online courses are not simply lots of webpages and links to articles, rather I seek innovations. Here are the technology skills that you have acquired or been introduced to in this course. The course reinforced skills you already have such as working on the Internet, viewing videos, using email, MS Word, and Adobe Acrobat. New technologies, however, were Creative Commons coursework on openstax (also known as cnx.org), Dropbox, grading rubrics in MS Word, an Online Gradebook, screen capture, and most importantly Finale Notepad.
In the last days of the course you will show your acquired knowledge in your analysis projects and the two remaining compositions.
Composition 3 will give you further artistic freedoms. You can receive standard credit by completing a melodic line for one instrument. Extra credit is given for completing two melodic lines (Saints3). Only work on ONE composition from Composition 3. Last of all there is a student survey for the course. This is not the same as the TU student evaluation. This survey is required for the course assessment as a TU core course.
I am looking forward to your final work in the course!
Dr. E.