FIU Designing a Quality Course
Tiffany Forrest
Created on July 14, 2021
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Designing a Quality Course
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Outcomes & Course Objectives
Course Outline
Designing the Module
Course Content
Finishing Touches
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- What should students know?
- What should students be able to do?
- How will you know they know/did it?
Articulate objectives for the course as the foundation of your planning.
- Use action-oriented statements. (Writing in Bloom might help!)
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Course Objectives
Course: Movie Watching Fundamentals
- Explain the most common movie genres.
- Prepare a bowl of popcorn.
- Select and view a movie.
- Compare and contrast the movie with other movies.
- Elaborate on key plot points to explain what the characters should have done.
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Use the outcomes and course objectives to outline the flow of the course.
- Weeks
- Units
- Blocks
- Modules
Course Outline
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Designing
the Module
Now that you have your:
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Designing the Module
Do you prefer to focus on what the students will be DOING first?
Do you prefer to focus on what the students will be LEARNING first?
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What will students
Course Objective #1: Explain the most common movie genres.
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If you want to start your module design by focusing on what students are going to be doing, then you want to start by developing your assignments. Variety is important!
- Major assignments
- Key assessments
- Discussions and peer reviews
- Homework, practice, short essays
- Quizzes and practice tests
- Reflections or annotations
What will students be doing?
Based on the assignments, you can then develop the Module Objectives:
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Module Objectives
When you're ready to write your module objectives, think SMART Goals (hover over each to see how they pertain to your Module Objectives):
Specfic
Course Objectives are broad, overarching outcomes, Module Objectives should focus on the narrower concepts covered within that module.
Measurable
How do you know students grasped the concept? Like you did with your Course Objectives, use action verbs. "Understand" and "Learn" do not describe measurable actions. How do you know the student understood or learned something? Perhaps they had to explain or identify in order to demonstrate that they understood or learned.
Achievable
Are students being given all the resources in the module to achieve the module objectives?
Realistic
Does the objective make sense when aligned with the Course Objectives?
Time-bound
Module Objectives are meant to be met within the module.
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Identify the thing you want students to learn.
the characteristics and typical composition for adventure, action, comedy, drama, romance, thriller/suspense, horror, and documentary films
Select a measurable verb to describe the behavior that will demonstrate that they have learned the thing.
Identify
Add criteria to identify how or when it is observable.
in a quiz.
Formula for writing objectives
Identify the characteristics and typical composition for adventure, action, comedy, drama, romance, thriller/suspense, horror, and documentary films in a quiz.
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Provide content that gives students what they need to complete the assignments and in turn supports the objectives.
- Textbook readings
- Supplemental articles or websites
- Lectures (live or recorded)
- Presentations or interactive pages
- Multimedia selections (videos, podcasts, etc.)
Course Content
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Welcome message/video and biography
Finishing Touches
Fin.