Category: Instructional Design

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Alignment

Learning Objectives Basics

Learning objectives are the foundation of any well-designed course. They define what we want our students to know and be able to do by the end of their learning journey.

Assessments and Assignments

Group Projects in Online Courses

“Every professor teaching online should consider team projects for his or her classes.”— Edward Volchoc (2006) Group projects open the door for students to tackle more complex and intriguing problems

Assessments and Assignments

Scaffolding Assessments

As you develop or redevelop an online course, you may notice that some of your intended assessments are not a good fit. Perhaps they require too much time-on-task in a

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Objectives

3 Tips for Writing Measurable Objectives

Objectives play a fundamental role in designing effective instruction. Objectives enable instructors to identify what students should know at the conclusion of an instructional activity, organize instructional activities and materials,

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Assessments and Assignments

Addressing Student Choice in Assignment Submissions

Assessments are the cornerstone of any course. They’re not just tasks for students to complete—they’re the tools we use to measure whether students have truly grasped the concepts and skills

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Assessments and Assignments

Creating Authentic Assessments

What Are Authentic Assessments? Authentic assessments are cognitively complex, performance-based evaluations that focus the context of learning on real-life situations similar to those found in the professional environment (Frey, Schmitt,

Course Facilitation

Shared Course Preparation Checklist

Utilizing the same master shell between multiple faculty is a great way to ensure students have the same experience regardless of who is facilitating the course. When developing and facilitating

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Course Facilitation

Student Success Guide & Worksheet

We spend many hours planning and designing our courses, but once the course begins, how do you plan for facilitation? The Student Success Guide and Student Success Worksheet provides templates, checklists, worksheets, and strategies instructors can use to help their online students succeed in their accelerated course and persist throughout their program.

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Instructional Design

10 Steps to Accelerate Your Course

Course acceleration is a multi-step process that requires you to deconstruct previous course content in order to reconstruct it in a new, accelerated format. Consider some of the following strategies to help you accelerate your course:

Coursetune

A Tour of Coursetune: Terminology

To get started in Coursetune, you will need to understand its unique terminology, different types of views, variety of levels and layers, and unique tools that will help you map

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Modular Course Design

The term module means different things to different people. For our purposes, modules are containers—organizational units or buckets of content—that

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Basics of Online Assessment

Assessments refer to the activities students complete to demonstrate their competency in relation to predefined learning objectives. Broadly speaking, there

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