SIDLIT 2018
Rapid-fire Ed Tech Forum #2: Seven Presenters Offer Seven Slides in Seven Minutes
Mary Burkart
August 3, 2018
Seven Colleague to Colleague presenters will share in seven minutes information about a useful app, website, concept or tool using only seven slides. This rapid-fire exposure to information aimed at instructional designers, subject matter experts and ed tech specialists.
This presentation highlights changes going into effect for the next generations of the Course Development Workspace. (See Workspace: Engaging Faculty with Design below)
PowerPoint Presentation: StreamAligning the Course Development Process.
Course Alignment Process in Backward Design
Sharon Gan and Mary Burkart
August 3, 2018
The Instructional Design team at Park University created a tool to facilitate the course development process, called the CLO-ULO-IRA Plan. We start with department-approved Course Learning Outcomes (CLOs), create Unit Learning Outcomes (ULOs) to address the CLOs, and then design learning activities that align with the ULOs. Learning objectives are built on Bloom’s Taxonomy. This tool ensures that each learning outcome is leveled appropriately in Bloom’s, and is introduced, reinforced, and then assessed with appropriate activities, creating a scaffolded learning experience. It checks the balance of ULOs to CLOs, identify gaps in the alignment, recognize opportunities for scaffolding, and facilitates the application of Universal Design of Learning (UDL) principles. The CLO-ULO-IRA Plan presents the entire structure of the course in a visual representation. This iterative process between the instructional designer and the SME front loads the design component of development, creating a clear road map for a high-quality course. The completed CLO-ULO-IRA Plan is placed in each course for instructors. This process raised the quality of Park University courses and improved the process for collaborative course design. Multiple examples of the process will be demonstrated.
PowerPoint Presentation: Course alignment process in backward design
SIDLIT 2017
Workspace: Engaging Faculty with Design
Teri Wright and Mary Burkart
The Instructional Design team at Park University created an 11-week course development space for systematic online course development. This is called the Course Developer Workspace or Workspace for short. This workspace provides a space for course development collaboration, content submission, templates for submitting content as well as a place to conduct the final course review.
PowerPoint Presentation: Workspace_Engaging Faculty with Design
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