blended by design: designing the redesign
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Redesigning for the Blend
Jennifer Spink Strickland
Veronica Diaz
Objectives
• Recognize, formulate, and apply strategies for designing online for a Blended Format
• Write objectives• Create module structure• Identify easy & difficult to understand
navigation
Why Redesign?Why Redesign?
• Ensures your design facilitates your course
• Engage students in dynamic and vital communities
• Students take responsibility for content and learning
• Students learn through active participation and inquiryBlended Learning and Course Redesign in Higher Education: Dr. Randy Garrison, Dr. Norm Vaughan Assessing the Role of Teaching Presence from the Learner Perspective [http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/BlendedLearningandCo/39282]
Start Here
• Start with your objectives• Objectives affect the design and content of
your course • State objectives throughout your course• Objectives will give your course:
• Clarity• Direction• Clear sense of Accomplishment
Why Objectives?Why Objectives?• Clear statement of what students
will be able to do when they are finished with an instructional component
• Focuses on student performance
• Provides structure: A beginning, middle, and end
Meeting ObjectivesMeeting Objectives
Source: Blending In, March 2007
Writing Module ObjectivesWriting Module Objectives• What are the core concepts your students
must learn for each module? What do they need to know?
What do they need to be able to do?
What will they know as a result of my instruction?
• Objectives should be clearly stated and easy for students to understand
• Objectives should include content mastery skills and critical thinking skills
Why Modules?Why Modules?
• Easier to find course content
• Allows students to focus on content rather than form
• Content becomes manageable
• Prevents information overload
• “7 +/-2 rule”
Source: Blending In, March 2007
Modules DefinedModules Defined• Course content broken
down into “chunks”
• Course structure in a repetitive manner allowing for easy navigation
• Content organized in conceptually related blocks
• Consistent, logical, clear, common sense, apply past experience, let the content control the chunks
Source: Blending In, March 2007
ModuleModule Elements for BlendedElements for Blended
• Objectives• Mode or Presentation• Transitions or “The Blend”• Variety of Learning Activities• Building Community• Feedback• Assessment• Organization & Structure
SurvSurvival Strategiesival Strategies• No “one size fits all”• Start from a 30,000’ level• Consider chunking your course• Consider online components and face to
face components and how they connect• Be prepared for change• Try to gain some effective uses of classroom
time through online
Source: Inside Out, Upside Down (2002) Teaching with Technology Today