Problem Statement: BCC Professors have noticed a significant number of students are not successful in online classes. A brainstorming session was held and several ideas were mentioned as ways to possibly increase the number of students who are successful in online classes. Your mission is to review these ideas, create some of your own ideas and determine the one BEST way to help solve this problem.

4. Create a decision balance sheet for ONE idea from the original brainstorming provided on slide 2. a. The title of the slide should be the idea that you are determining the gains and losses for. b. You must have two gains and two losses for BOTH the professor and the student for the idea

5. Create a decision balance sheet for ONE of your original ideas from the Mind Map on slide 3. a. The title of the slide should be the idea that you are determining the gains and losses for. b. You must have two gains and two losses for BOTH the professor and the student for the idea.

6. Create a decision balance sheet for ONE your original ideas OR ONE of the original brainstorming. a. The title of the slide should be the idea that you are determining the gains and losses for. b. You must have two gains and two losses for BOTH the professor and the student for the idea

7. Complete the Hierarchy/Decision Matrix table using the 3 ideas from the 3 previous slide. a. The three options to compare are the three options that you used in creating the decision balance sheet. i. (These are the ideas/titles on slides 4, 5 and 6) b. MAKE SURE TO REPLACE THE TEXT UNDERNEATH THE MATRIX WITH YOUR 1ST RANKED CHOICE

8. Complete the ENTIRE Table. (From Part 3 in your book, refer to pages 58, 60 & 62) a. In column two, determine if the statement is an obstacle, a deductive fallacy, or an inductive fallacy to solving the problem. b. In column three, determine the TYPE of obstacle or deductive/inductive fallacy. i. Again, these can be found in Part 3 of the textbook on the same pages

9. Complete the Group Traps Table a. Type the type of trap from the statement. b. These can be found on page 84 in Part 4 of your textbook. c. HINT: There is one of each type of trap. 10. Complete your plan to solve this problem a. Using your BEST solution from your Decision Matrix on slide 7, now justify your solution. i. Why will this idea help resolve the problem? ii. How will this idea be implemented? iii. Why will this work, etc. b. Create a maximum of FOUR bullets on this slide. c. Do not include pros and cons on this slide, which will be done on the next slide. i. Use the questions above to focus your answer on how to solve this problem

11. Complete the Pros and Cons for your solution from slide 10 a. You must have two Pros and two Cons for your solution. 12. On Slide 12, write your conclusion in paragraph form using full sentence format. a. Include a comment on your solution, what barriers to success you see and the probability of success. At least 3 sentences

Click to add title Hierarchy/Decision Matrix Replace this text with your decision for the BEST of the three options Deductive/Inductive Fallacies or Obstacles Group Traps \begin{tabular}{|l|l|} \hline Statement & Type \\ \hline Thecopiesofthestatisticswerenotreadyforthemeetingtodiscusshowtoimprovethesuccessofonlineclassessowewaited20minutestostartthemeeting. \\ \hline Everyoneatthemeetingteachonlineclassesandthinkthelackofsuccessisduetopoorstudentperformance. \\ \hline Theorganizerofthemeetinghasthemostexperienceteachingandshethinksweshouldreducethenumberofclassesonline.Weallagreewithher. \\ \hline Allfacultyaretoobusytomeettodiscussthisformorethan30minutesatthetime. \\ \hline \end{tabular} Pros and Cons for this solution Click to add title Hierarchy/Decision Matrix Replace this text with your decision for the BEST of the three options Deductive/Inductive Fallacies or Obstacles Group Traps \begin{tabular}{|l|l|} \hline Statement & Type \\ \hline Thecopiesofthestatisticswerenotreadyforthemeetingtodiscusshowtoimprovethesuccessofonlineclassessowewaited20minutestostartthemeeting. \\ \hline Everyoneatthemeetingteachonlineclassesandthinkthelackofsuccessisduetopoorstudentperformance. \\ \hline Theorganizerofthemeetinghasthemostexperienceteachingandshethinksweshouldreducethenumberofclassesonline.Weallagreewithher. \\ \hline Allfacultyaretoobusytomeettodiscussthisformorethan30minutesatthetime. \\ \hline \end{tabular} Pros and Cons for this solution