A course overview

Before you dive in, let’s take a quick tour through the journey ahead so you know what to expect.

Module 1: Course design

Create and refine a blueprint of your course.

This module focuses on course design where you will create and refine a blueprint for your course. Your blueprint will become an anchor for your journey through the modules, and you will be invited to reflect, refine, and revise the blueprint throughout each week.

Module 2: Enhancement through interaction design

Engage in interactive reinforcement activities (H5P).

This module focuses on enhancing your blueprint through interaction design. You will spend the week learning about expert practices that enhance learner engagement, particularly how designing interactive experiences enhances connections between learners and instructors, and learners and their peers.

Module 3: Resourcing learning effectively

Look at an array of ‘places and spaces’ for learning and the degree to which each can support flexible, hybrid, and fully online/offline experiences.

This module focuses on resourcing learning effectively. You will spend your time getting intentional about the addition of meaningful resources that have a positive impact on learning. Moreover, you will spend some time considering your own blueprint context and how appropriate resources support flexible, hybrid, and fully online/offline experiences.

Module 4: Activating learning through activity

Explore several ‘toolkits’ that demonstrate course themes in action, and analyze these toolkits and their contents to see which activities fit their own teaching.

This module focuses on active learning. This final stage will help you to further enhance your detailed and refined design with effective active learning strategies that fit your learners, your context, and your digital/physical spaces. Finally, you will consider cultivating digital/physical spaces conducive to learner agency.

Each module has four parts:

Introduction

Identifying the ‘location’ of this module within the course level learning, and provide a ‘spark’ to further your module learning.

Expansion

A worked example is provided to help you apply learning to current course frameworks.

Refinement/Application

Each module, by this point, will help you to answer the question ‘How does your learning apply to in-world experiences?’.

Reflective Practice

With a focus on shifting designs toward a learner centered approach, participants are asked reflective questions about their own process/decisions in the design and adaptation activities presented.

We will begin each of the 4 core modules with a map similar to the one pictured above. It will help to ‘locate’ us in the course and share a bit more about what each section of the module will provide/support. Consider using a consistent approach to your course design. Doing so helps establish learner expectations and eliminates the ‘guess work’ of what is expected each week.

A Course Syllabus

A learner success guide