Week Seven: Aligning Outcomes, Assignments, and Assessments
The final step in designing your online course is to consider the course outcomes provide a map that identifies how students will accomplish those overall goals through the activities, readings, assignments, and assessments.
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In Week One, we were introduced to backwards design. Backwards design begins with outcomes and designs a course to meet those outcomes.
Last week, you created a syllabus for your online class that detailed the policies for your online course. This week, you will complete at least 8 weeks of a weekly plan for that online course. The weekly plan will look somewhat like the accessibility plan that you created in Week One. Only this week, we are connecting outcomes to assignments, readings, and deadlines in the class. Week Two Learning Outcomes: Accessibility 2 & 5 Course Design 1 & 2 Presence and Interaction 2 & 4 |
7.1 Activity: Weekly Plan
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This week's activity is to design at least an eight-week plan for your online course (a plan from the beginning of the course up to midterm). If you are working with a class that you have already taught face-to-face, please complete a weekly plan for an entire 16-week course.
This weekly plan does not have to be perfect, but it should link outcomes, activities, and assessments. Your goal for this project is to begin to conceptualize how you might design a fully online class (and you will use this course plan if you complete the Graduate Certificate in Online Writing Instruction to begin to develop your online course in CourseSites). If you have taken Composition Theory, consider the theories and practices of writing instruction as you develop this course plan. If you have NOT taken Composition Theory, draw on what you know about good writing and your experiences with learning to write in other courses and design a course plan to help students become more successful writers. What assignments and activities in other writing classes have been beneficial to you? How can those assignments and activities help students meet learning outcomes? If you have never taught or taken Composition Theory, this activity might feel overwhelming. Do the best you can; I will provide feedback to help you modify this weekly plan for the final. To complete this assignment:
As with the syllabus, if you know someone who has a unit or activity you would like to borrow, please ask them before borrowing that unit or activity for this course. Most writing faculty are happy to share their materials, but asking permission is a best practice. Please share this Google Doc with me by the deadline in the course schedule. |