Designing for Mastery in Online and Blended Education

Designing For Mastery

in Online and Blended Education

Description

This course is intended for educators who need to create online or blended lessons - or an entire class - and who have minimal to no experience designing for mastery-based online learning. The course is intended for a variety of educators: college instructors, homeschooling parents, community educators, and more. Note: for certified teachers, some concepts could be review, although possibly applied in a new way; they are encouraged to still work through each section carefully because they are often surprised by the reframing of what they expect to be familiar concepts.

While most of the lessons here focus on course design, some guidance is also provided for the design of the home-based work and learning environment. This includes important information and strategies for successfully teaching online and making the most of your time. You are also offered some strategies to share with parents of younger students to help optimize the home-based learning environment for those students. If you are working from home and also have children at home, some of these strategies will help you as well.

Documentation: A certificate of completion is provided that lists the course title, clock hours, date of completion, learning goals or topics, your name, the organization name and logo, a representative signature, and a unique certificate ID number. No matter how many teachers successfully use our classes for PD purposes, we must always advise you to check with your state or employer requirements for acceptance of clock hours.

Course Outline

1. About This Course
1. Introduction: Instructional Design Models
2. Key Terms for Getting Started
3. An Introduction to a Goals-Based, "Backwards Design" Approach
4. Related Instructional Design Models
5. Quiz Instructions for This Class
6. Quiz 1: Design Models
7. Applications: Design Models
1. Introduction: Space & Time
2. Space & Environment: Physical & Sensible Environment
3. Space & Environment: Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
4. Space & Environment: Establishing Expectations & Boundaries
5. Reflect: Using Your Superpower
6. Time & Energy: Energy Management
7. Time & Energy: Timing and Pacing to Optimize Learning
8. Time & Energy: Hybrid School-Home Scheduling Considerations
9. Time & Energy: Habituating & Time Wrangling
10. Quiz 2: Space and Time
11. Applications: Space & Time
1. Introduction: Academic Integrity & Timeliness
2. Goal Orientation
3. Lifelong Learning of the Multipotentialite
4. Academic Integrity & Plagiarism
5. Procrastination: Reasons & Solutions
6. Quiz 3: Academic Integrity and Timeliness
7. Applications: Academic Integrity and Timeliness
1. Introduction: Multiple Ways of Learning
2. Reflect: Different Ways of Learning
3. Considerations for Learning Needs and Preferences
4. Power of Emotion
5. Perceptual Modalities: More Than 3!
6. Beyond Modalities: Learning Needs & Preference Categories
7. Gifted and Talented
8. Learning Preferences Resources
9. Quiz 4: Multiple Ways of Learning
10. Applications: Multiple Ways of Learning
1. Introduction: Determining Learning Goals
2. What's the Big Idea?
3. Learning Goals: First Places to Consider
4. Learning Goals Lists
5. Bloom's Taxonomy for Goal Level Analysis
6. Classes versus Competencies
7. Cover versus Do
8. Competency, Proficiency, and Mastery
9. Quiz 5: Determining Learning Goals
10. Applications: Determining Learning Goals
1. Introduction: Assessments and Assignments
2. Beware Interference with Assessment Accuracy
3. Assessment Options
4. Discussions Worth Discussing
5. Using a Course Outline and Course Plan
6. Quiz 6: Assessments and Assignments
7. Applications: Assessments and Assignments
1. Introduction: Formative Feedback
2. Reflect: Personal Experiences with Grading
3. The Giving of Grades
4. Grading and the "Real World" Question
5. Encouraging and Formative Feedback
6. Rubrics to Guide and Evaluate
7. Quiz 7: Formative Feedback
8. Applications: Formative Feedback
1. Introduction: Find & Create Learning Objects
2. Granular & Reusable Learning Objects
3. Avoid Modality Interference
4. Mindful Formatting
5. Copyright Considerations, Including Images
6. Using Ready-Made Content
7. The Power of Story
8. Content Creation Tools
9. Quiz 8: Find & Create Learning Objects
10. Applications: Find & Create Learning Objects
1. Introduction: Online Course Sequencing & Layout
2. Layout and Sequencing
3. Quiz 9: Online Course Sequencing & Layout
4. Applications: Online Course Sequencing & Layout
1. Always More to Learn
2. Completing the Course & Receiving Certificate of Completion
3. Course Survey

About this course

14.5 Clock Hours
9 Modules

Books to Get

None. You are not required to purchase any learning materials for this class. All learning content is provided in the course. Any 3rd party content is free.
Completion Requirements

1) View all content. 2) Complete 9 quizzes. 3) Complete course survey. Quizzes are auto-graded, must be completed at 80% or higher accuracy, and can be retaken as needed.
Education PD Topics

This course presents content relevant for the following PD topics: instructional design, online learning, differentiated learning, learning environment, assessment and feedback.

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This course is asynchronous and self-paced. You work through the modules in order, but on a schedule that best fits your needs. You have a full year from the time you sign up to complete the course.

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Learning Goals

By the end of this course:

Be able to use a goals-based approach to designing courses.
Learn the importance of determining prerequisite skills that will be needed to begin a lesson or course, and to consider scaffolding needs when planning a sequence of lessons.
Understand, take into consideration, and be able to maximize the benefits of time and space, as it applies to online and blended education.
Gain strategies for creating a positive and effective learning and work environment in both the creation and the instruction of an online or blended course.
Be aware of the role that basic needs - as defined by Maslow's Hierarchy - plays in learning and working, as applied to the online and blended environment.
Understand the concepts of mastery, proficiency, and competency.
Understand different types of learning goals and be able to clearly define the learning goals for a class.
Learn how Bloom's taxonomy can be used in the evaluation of learning goals, and be able to design learning and assessments to match the level per Bloom's.
Consider importance of designing assessments that can measure the defined learning goals of the class, mitigating for possible interference.
Explore methods in providing formative and instructional feedback, including for an iterative activity.
Know the causes of procrastination and academic integrity violations (e.g. plagiarism), and design activities and courses to prevent these concerns.
Understand the value of designing for a variety of learning modes and preferences, and understand how good learning is usually a "recipe" of several approaches.
Learn about accessibility considerations.
Consider the importance of creating discussion questions worth discussing.
Explore online course layout options, both global and sequential.
Be aware of formatting good practices for learning objects and the online classroom.

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