Week 3 Designing Interactive Course Activities

This Week's Topics are:

  1. Bloom's Taxonomy and Course Objectives
  2. Interaction, Collaboration, and Group Work Strategies
  3. Group, Collaboration, and Conferencing Tools

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Introduction

Although course objectives are required as part of <Replace - Institution Name> participation in the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) accreditation process, the creation of well-written course objectives helps to create a more meaningful learning environment for your students. If you've taught this course before, your concern may be geared toward how to take what has worked successfully in a face-to-face environment and translate that into the online environment. For the rest of you, designing interactions based on measurable outcomes may seem more experimental as the online environment presents new tools to incorporate into online activities. This week's content provides strategies to help create measurable objectives along with some tips to help design meaningful course interactions.

After reading about these concepts, start to create one module for your course that will include objectives, activities, and interactions.

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Learning Objectives

At the conclusion of this section, you will be able to:

  • Create course and module objectives
  • Review and revise objectives generated by your peers in your small group
  • Complete the objectives and interaction activity
  • Describe the collaboration features available in <Replace - Your LMS>
  • Describe the unique characteristics of the conferences tool
  • Design a course activity using at least one of the collaborative tools in <Replace - Your LMS>

 

Assignments Overview

This week you will complete the following assignments located in this module:

  1. Complete the Planning Your Module Group Discussion 
  2. Complete the Objectives and Interaction Activity
  3. Schedule Consultation 2 with your Instructional Designer
  4. Complete the Build Your Course Blueprint Activity (Optional Activity)

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