Digital Course Design webinar series
Topic: Planning assessment and learning activity to support engaged learning
Monday, December 20, 11:00 am to 12:00 pm
Facilitated by: Paul Maher
Join Zoom Meeting
https://smu-ca.zoom.us/j/88655451244?pwd=TVlXamFiVUZwckhNWGFOTGdHeGVuUT09
Meeting ID: 886 5545 1244
Passcode: 115379
Well-structured learning activities and assessments are a powerful way to maintain engagement outside scheduled class time and improve learning outcomes for your students. For example:
Discussion boards offer a more democratic way for class participation by allowing a variety of means and length of time to consider and respond to set-prompts.
Leveraging learning science concepts like spacing and retrieval practice to support the integration of important, challenging, and/or unfamiliar course concepts.
Assessment is a key means to engage students in coursework and frame what they ultimately learn within the course.
This webinar will focus on key strategies to optimize and structure asynchronous activity to support rich, engaging and active learning. The following topics, in particular, will be covered:
Key lessons from learning science
Transparency, accountability, motivation & value
Authentic & alternative assessment
low-stakes & cumulative assessment
Gamification & interaction
Active learning
Formative feedback
Each session will feature an active component and provide an opportunity for participants to share experiences, insights and challenges. If format or timing does not suit, consider instead a one-on-one consultation with Paul Maher.
