This page shows course information for 7100/7100D and then after, for the 4100D.
EPSY 7100 & 7100 D – Learning & Wellness in Later Life
Course Description: Relevant settings, processes, and purposes of learning for older adults. Learner characteristics will also be examined including motivations and needs. Examples of curricula and programs will be explored in-depth such as learning for family harmony, life transitions and adjustment, community involvement, recreation, reciprocity, wellness, health and fitness. LEC (3 credit hours) ………LINK TO LIST OF WEEKLY MODULES
INSTRUCTOR: Professor Paris Strom stromps@auburn.edu / cell: 334-728-0909
LEARNING MODALITY: Online Asynchronous for 7100 and 7100-D, all sections Online readings – no textbook
**** CANVAS SELF-ORIENTATION (REQUIRED): I have designed a self-orientation that is in Canvas which is easy and simple enough to do on your own. This is linked in Canvas on the course home/front page and will be due by Tuesday, Aug 26, 11:59pm. This is a step-by-step self-orientation that you will follow when prompted to read, watch, and then complete a few small assignments that help towards orientation. This also will contain the syllabus and a video(s) of the syllabus highlights and a video(s) on how to navigate the course and course assignments, as these are organized in Canvas. This will be worth points and required by all students.
ZOOM HELP SESSIONS IF NEEDED (30 minutes): I will offer several Zoom help sessions for those who need one. The dates and times for these are posted below. Attending a Zoom help session will not be required. Instead, these will be offered in case you wish to attend. I strongly recommend that you attend one but its up to you to decide if you need one. You do not need to plan with me ahead of time to attend a help session as listed below – just join in on Zoom at the start time if you wish to attend. You would only attend one if you need to—they are the same help session but provided LIVE on Zoom on separate dates/times to be as accommodating as possible. For any of the below choices, there is only one ZOOM link to press to join. It is linked on the HOME/FRONT PAGE of our course in Canvas. *All times below and elsewhere in this email are Central Time.
*Sunday, AUG 17 @ 3:00—3:30 pm;
*Each day, Monday, AUG 18 through Friday, AUG 22 @ 12:00–12:30 pm and 5:30–6:00 pm);
*Saturday AUG 23 @ 10:00–10:30 am; and
*Sunday AUG 24 @ 3:00–3:30 pm
MORE ABOUT LEARNING MODALITY: Other than Zoom Help Sessions and any appointments you wish to make with me, all the rest of the course will be in Canvas to be completed on a weekly basis, with weekly online lessons “modules”, in an Asynchronous, online manner. This arrangement works the very best for everyone based on varying course work schedules and life scheduling needs, and for a few course design reasons. These are explained below.
—– This section and the Distance ed section of EPSY 7100 are actually on Canvas in Asynchronous format. I only offer the face-to-face/campus section on Canvas, in Asynchronous format so that Auburn University employees who are graduate students (GAs, RAs, GTAs, or other AU employees), have the opportunity to take the course and still get tuition waiver. That’s the most important reason. Another other reason is that this course is an elective, and electives often have a real challenge in making load (enough people enrolling) due to course schedule conflicts with other courses that are required and/or with various life needs. So, to make it feasible for everyone to enroll in and take the course, without any scheduling conflicts, the material is all on Canvas to do weekly in Asynchronous mode. If you have enrolled for the campus, face-to-face section, please know that the course material/instructional material will be delivered in Canvas Asynchronously and not on campus, and not face-to- face for the above and below reasons.
—– The other reason that both sections are offered in Canvas is that some of the course material is branched, based on your area of interest, so that during the first part of several weekly modules, everyone reads and watches the same base (tree trunk) materials. Then during that same weekly module, the content branches out into two or three interest areas that students will have and can study further. That way, the material is partly customized (differentiated) to attend to different interests in separate programs. Branched learning would be very difficult to have in a face-to-face course for that very reason however. So, that’s the other reason for it being in Asynchronous format- the nature of the course design in terms of instructional delivery dictates a more Asynchronous, online mode.
As of AUG 16th, 8:00 a.m., you will have access to the course and can begin reading and watching material for MOD 1- the SELF-ORIENTATION. This module is located and linked on the home/front page of the course! If you wish, you may complete the self-orientation assignments in that module as early as 3:30 pm on Sunday, Aug 17th. MOD 1 orientation assignments will not be due until Aug 26th–11:59pm (CT). I just give early access before classes start for anyone who prefers to get started a little early. Each weekly module will last seven days with only one or two exceptions.
NOTE: Please contact me with any questions you may have! Once enrolled, I will email course information within one to two business days.
EPSY 4100 D – Learning & Wellness in Later Life
Distance Education section only in Asynchronous Online format using Canvas — No textbook will be required. Readings will be in Canvas via PDF files and links to various websites.
All main course details from the above about 7100 (graduate sections) are the same for 4100, (the undergraduate section). The only main difference will be in the assignments for undergraduate students since those are different from the graduate section. There is one course objective which sets apart the graduate course from the undergraduate section which then implicates the specific assignments to be done. All of the details regarding the required course orientation, the Zoom Help Sessions, and the course description are the same. All materials will be in Canvas only for this section to be completed on a weekly basis according to the weekly schedule posted in Canvas and in the syllabus. All weekly lesson modules cover the same topics, sub-topics, and themes as are in the graduate level course. Again, its the assignments that differ between the graduate level and undergraduate level sections.
NOTE: Please contact me with any questions you may have! Once enrolled, I will email course information within one to two business days.