Tag: Toolbox
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Managing Course Pacing and Student Access (Canvas)
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As you’re organizing your course content, you should also consider how you would like students to move through your course in terms of pacing. Generally speaking, online courses are built to be more adaptable than face-to-face classes in order to accommodate students’ work and class schedules, as well as other commitments like childcare. That being…
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Assessments (Formative vs. Summative)
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(Adapted from Carnegie Mellon’s: Design and Teach a Course) Assessments should provide instructors and students with evidence of how well students have mastered the course objectives. There are two major reasons for aligning assessments with learning objectives. Alignment increases the probability that we will provide students with the opportunities to learn and practice knowledge and skills…
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Essential Statement for Your Course
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Much of instructional design and online learning focuses on objectives which gauge student progress by measuring what students do. This is important because teachers ought to know the degree to which student mastery results from the instruction of the course. Yet, those objectives cannot get at the immeasurable benefits of learning that we hope students…