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Quality Course Design

Pre-Phase Checklist

Have you completed each of the following components?  If not, enter Phase 2 - Build.  If so, continue to the phase 3 checklist below.

  • Course materials (presentation/demonstration, practice, and assessments components) selected and developed
  • An organized and integrated course
  • A draft of the course syllabus

Overview

The BUILD phase of developing a course involves:

  • Creating complete learning activities that engage students in the learn
  • Developing and uploading a variety of course content and media files that support the learning activities
  • Finalizing the course syllabus

Build Phase Objectives:

In the BUILD phase you will:

  • Create complete learning activities that engage students in the learning process (Quality Element 3)
  • Develop and upload a variety of course content and media files that support the learning activities. Fill the course structure with curriculum content (Quality Element 4)
  • Finalize the syllabus.

Rationale:

With the overall course and lesson objectives and structure defined from the previous phase instructors can start building individual lessons and finalize the course syllabus. The syllabus will be completed at the end of the Build phase when all the materials and sequencing needed for the course have been identified.

Process

A complete lesson or learning unit has four components:

  1. Statement of activity outcome(s)
  2. Presentation/demonstration of new information or processes
  3. Practice opportunities with feedback and coaching
  4. Assessment of student learning related to the stated outcomes

This four-part structure allows students to understand what they are going to learn, how they are going to receive instruction, practice the material while receiving feedback, and finally be assessed based upon what they have learned. With the lesson objectives identified from the Design phase, instructors now need to create the presentation/demonstration of the content, provide practice opportunities for student to engage with content, interact with each other and instructors, and create student learning assessments that support and evaluate the identified objectives.