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For this week’s design task, you will create the design for a single type of learning activity that you have listed in your Course Design Pattern. You and your instructional design consultant will use the activity directions you write for this design task to build the activity in Blackboard later in this seminar.
There are three ways to approach this assignment. Choose whichever option makes the most sense for you given your experience and level of comfort/interest:
- You may follow the steps in the Design Task Activity Directions, below. The type of information that has been shown to be effective for students is described within each step of the design task; Or,
- You may work in the Optional Template for Learning Activity Design, provided; Or,
- You may adapt general activity directions provided by your instructional design consultant for the content and purpose of your course.
If interested, you will find helpful and specific guidance regarding the design of various informational, active and collaborative activities in the Course Resources area of the course. A link to the “Toolbox for Design of Effective Learning Activities” is provided following these activity directions.
If you’ve settled on a design pattern for your course, the instructions for your activity will contain many of the same activity directions that students will follow in subsequent modules. For example, if you design a homework assignment for content in Module 03, the same or very similar directions could be used for all of the other homework assignments in the other modules in your course.
This course design task will help you achieve the following seminar learning objectives:
G5. Match the course- and module-level outcomes and their aligned assessments with one or more appropriate individual or group learning activity options.
G6. Generate a learning activity design.
G7. Check the learning activity design against Quality Matters Standards to help ensure constructive alignment and high-quality course design.
Design Task Activity Directions
Please follow the steps below to generate a rough draft of the activity directions for a specific learning activity that students will complete in at least one module in your course.
Step 01: Select an activity
Review your course design pattern. Select one type of activity that you would like to design, perhaps a weekly assignment. We’d like you to write the directions that students will follow for that activity in one particular module in your course.
Step 02: Provide the learning activity title and an estimated time to complete the activity
At the top of the page, write a working title for the activity. After the title, write the amount of time you expect students to spend on this activity in parentheses. Note the following examples:
Reading: Textbook Chapter 01 (90 min)
Small Group Activity: Study Guide Questions for Module 03 (60 min)
Project Presentation Video (120 min)
Step 03: Learning objectives, rationale, and instructor guidan